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The world’s toughest man sues the world’s biggest booksellerFrom Nathan Bransford: If you’ve spent any time on Amazon searching for books lately, you probably know that it’s become an absolute...
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Fake Books at ZonFrom Nathan Bransford: If you’ve spent any time on Amazon searching for books lately, you probably know that it’s become an absolute...
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The music industry’s over-reliance on TikTok shows how lazy it has becomeFrom The Guardian: Earlier this month, the music industry was hit with its biggest shake-up in years when Universal Music Group announced...
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Yet Another Blow to Copyright in CanadaFrom Publishing Perspectives: In the latest blow to Access Copyright—the beleaguered collective management organization established by...
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Fictionalizing the Real Stakes of the Ukrainian WarFrom Electric Lit: Matt Gallagher, a U.S. Army veteran and author of the novels Youngblood and Empire City , first traveled to Ukraine in...
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Blog Weirdness ContinuesPG is becoming familiar with translating error messages into English. Sorry for continuing issues with THE PASSIVE VOICE.
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“Warning” by Jenny JosephWhen I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and...
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Test 2When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,...
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PG NotePG is having problems getting into The Passive Voice to add new posts. He’s working on the problem. What’s a Conlanger? From...
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Dune and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional LanguagesFrom The New Yorker: The trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” features the boy prophet Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet,...
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Why large language models aren’t headed toward humanlike understandingFrom Science News: Apart from the northward advance of killer bees in the 1980s, nothing has struck as much fear into the hearts of headline...
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The Art Of The NovellaFrom Kristine Kathryn Rusch: I’ve been trying to figure out how to teach an in-person novella class for years now, but I knew it would be...
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Sharpen the detailsFrom Nathan Bransford: Now then. Time for the Page Critique. First I’ll present the page without comment, then I’ll offer my thoughts...
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AI is coming for your audiobooks. You’re right to be worried.From The Washington Post: Something creepy this way comes — and its name is digital narration. Having invaded practically every other sphere...
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Genuine PoetryGenuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
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OpenAI: ‘The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us’From Torrent Freak: OpenAI accuses The New York Times of paying someone to hack OpenAI’s products. This was allegedly done to gather evidence...
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Welcome to the Era of BadGPTsFrom The Wall Street Journal: A new crop of nefarious chatbots with names like “BadGPT” and “FraudGPT” are springing up on the darkest...
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Artificial Intelligence and the Business of WritingFrom Writer Unboxed: A few weeks ago, my publisher put up a post on the company’s private Facebook page. The small press had received a...
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Lewis Carroll’s Guide for InsomniacsFrom The Wall Street Journal: A medley of games, riddles, rhymes and number problems, “ Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs ” is the...
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The person, be it gentleman or ladyThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
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The Enduring Lessons to be Found in a Jane Austen NovelFrom Woman Writers, Women’s Books: Why has Jane Austen endured? The question is asked so often, as the film industry magics up...
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The Key Book Publishing Paths: 2023–2024From Jane Friedman: Link to the rest at Jane Friedman Yes, the illustration is hard to read, but you should be able to enlarge...
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Protecting Your WorkFrom Booklife: The recent suspensions of authors from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing for “copyright infringement”’ provide a powerful...
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How to Write Slipstream FictionFrom The Write Life: In the ever-evolving genres of fiction, slipstream emerges as a genre that defies the traditional boundaries of...
