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We’re playing Beat The Bot in today’s Huddle… Yes, it’s going to be a great game, but also… the future of writing itself may depend on… you…!

Today’s Book News Saturday, 22nd November 2025 (London date) This Week’s Bestsellers: November 24, 2025 James Islington’s epic fantasy follow‑up **The Strength of the Few** debuted at #1 on the hardcover fiction list after selling more than 30...

Yeah Go Irish. Where you can still submit wo an agent! But scholarly matters to me because my husband publishes. Horrified to learn some AH arguing for lowering standards of peer review to accommodate AI.

Yeah, I’m still adjusting the sites we crawl to get as full and useful representation of today’s important publishing news as we can, in one overview. I may have overdone it with scholarly publishing, quite a few of the news items aren’t really...

No, these are “film scouts” , not literary agents. Also, “streaming’ means the likes of Netflix, i.e. where there’s a production company involved.

Today’s Book News Friday, 21st November 2025 Reading Is Entertainment: PW Talks with Lissette Mendez Miami Book Fair director Lissette Mendez told *Publishers Weekly* that this year’s fair expected more than sixty thousand attendees and aimed...

He's dreaming. They're are too many different kinds of disabilities and unless he's disabled himself, he'd never understand that. It's almost offensive.

Today’s Book News Thursday, 20th November 2025 Politics Loom Large at 2025 National Book Awards At the 76th National Book Awards in New York, winners including fiction honoree Rabih Alameddine and nonfiction winner Omar El Akkad used their...

Today’s Book News Wednesday, 19th November 2025 (London date) Publishing in Color Stays the Course Publishers Weekly reports that the seven‑year‑old Publishing in Color organization remains committed to bringing diverse voices into Christian...

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 18th November 2025 (London date) Stable Distribution adds McSweeney’s and four others Stable Book Group’s joint venture with Hachette Book Group has signed McSweeney’s, Pigna, Gloo Books, Marble Press and Amber Books...

Today's Book News Monday, 17th November, 2025 The Sheikh Zayed Book Award Celebrates its 20th anniversary Publishing Perspectives marks two decades of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, highlighting how the Abu Dhabi-based prize has become a major...

Yikes! Machines over people. It's disgusting and scary. Greed is seriously a problem and it's never felt more ominous. At least AI can never replace caregivers...

Today's Book News Friday, 14th November, 2025 Webtoon Posts $11 Million Q3 Loss Webtoon Entertainment, which owns Wattpad, reported that third‑quarter revenue rose 8.7% year‑on‑year to $378 million, but higher costs for marketing, personnel and...

All GP surgeries in England are already using AI. This is government mandated. There have been plenty of fuck ups already which the humans have to apologise for. I work with this every day in general practice. It's not all bad. The staff are more...