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Hi Phil. I love your query letter, and would have asked for the first chapters. I have trouble reading fantasy/sci fi, (it baffles me, and I can't move forward) so was reassured when you mentioned no dead people, magic, etc. Also, I like the...

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...

Thanks for sharing. I think this is really important. We all learn in different ways. As an audio learner myself, I really welcome this.

The National Literacy Trust (NLT) has highlighted the “urgent need to broaden our understanding of literacy in the digital age” in a new paper titled The Future of Literacy: Multimodal Reading. The paper, supported by Audible and Oxford...

The National Literacy Trust (NLT) has highlighted the “urgent need to broaden our understanding of literacy in the digital age” in a new paper titled The Future of Literacy: Multimodal Reading. The paper, supported by Audible and Oxford...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Natalie Clifford Barney

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...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Natalie Clifford Barney

Phil here (Glaiss is the name of my title character) introducing myself. I have spent a year and a half querying agents with my 250k word epic (yes, probably too long) alternate history novel, The Inspector. Besides being occasionally damned with...

There's not much good news about Gen AI these days, but I saw this over the weekend and was delighted the German courts saw sense: OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says

There's not much good news about Gen AI these days, but I saw this over the weekend and was delighted the German courts saw sense: OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says

Hi Phil It’s great to meet you. I’m relatively new here too and I absolutely love it. It’s a great community and everybody is so lovely, welcoming and supportive. As Vagabond Heart said, you get back tenfold what you put in and I’m learning so...

Hi there Joan, have a gander at my usual (and unsuccessful, lol) query letter that I cast upon the waters. Do you have anything posted here? I do find the site a bit clunky, btw. Phil The Inspector is an alternate history novel, set in a world...

"There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realise, you're not running their race. You're running your race." Joel Osteen

Hi Phil! I'm looking forward to hearing more about your Alt History epic. I'm working on a historical novel (NYC, 1902-1915), am up to 100k, and have only gotten up to 1905...