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📚 A new alternative to the Big A
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (1234+ words) 🛑 We could’ve told you years ago, but DNFing is NBD. Now that Goodreads has made it official with dedicated shelves for the books you didn’t finish, the New York Times is getting in on the discourse. Here’s what we want…...
Quote Of The Day By John Waters: 'To Understand Bad Taste, One Must Have Very Good Taste."
4+ hour, 13+ min ago (318+ words) Indeed, he once noted that one cannot even understand the notion of bad taste without also understanding good taste. This quote was taken from a passage in John Waters' invaluable autobiography "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste." The…...
PFD hires John Baker and Sarah Moore as agents
4+ hour, 30+ min ago (46+ words) The Bookseller PFD hires John Baker and Sarah Moore as agents Register to read for FREE. Serious about the book trade? 🗞Weekly print copies of The Bookseller magazine - Deputy Editor's Comment:Long live the literary long game...
I Skipped the Link. My Brain Didn’t.
44+ min ago (38+ words) I kept reading, but part of me stayed behind with one underlined word. Last night, I opened a Medium article in bed and told myself I would read for ten minutes …...
How Nosheen Ahmed lost her side business to AI, and bet her whole career on the 'human hand"
6+ hour, 17+ min ago (959+ words) She worked as a dentist for more than two decades before she found the courage to call herself an illustrator too. Now, with AI flooding publishing, Nosheen Ahmed makes the case for the human hand – and the belief that no…...
Anthropic just rolled out a tool that’ll decimate some people’s dreams of writing AI novels undetected
2+ hour, 28+ min ago (319+ words) It’s going to get a lot harder to let Claude be a ghostwriter for everything from novels to homework. On Monday, Anthropic said new Claude models will embed an “imperceptible watermark” directly into AI-generated text. The watermark doesn’t change the…...
5 KDP Formatting Mistakes That Make a Good Book Look Unprofessional
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (846+ words) Your manuscript can be excellent and still look amateur if the interior formatting is overlooked. Here are five problems self-published authors should catch before publishing. Writing the book is only part of the self-publishing process. You can spend months writing,…...
The False Positive — Part IV
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (301+ words) The Asymmetry of Trust Series Note This is Part IV of The False Positive series. You can read Part I here. The series will continue. After days of the usual flood of …...
In a World Full of Answers, Ask Better Questions
14+ hour, 51+ min ago (689+ words) Below, Lani Watson shares five key insights from her new book, Q: The Hidden Power of Questions in a World That Wants Answers. Lani is a philosopher and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is a world-leading expert in…...
Maybe I Was Never Bad at Writing. Maybe I Just Believed Them.
4+ hour, 7+ min ago (623+ words) I don’t really have a topic today. I just feel like writing. And maybe that’s exactly why I love these moments so much. It fascinates me what happens when I sit down and start writing without a plan, without a…...