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Hey @noahkempton Hold onto your hat, the query trenches are brutally discouraging. I've queried four books and it's a totally hit and miss scenario. It's also a frustrating nightmare, and I offer a hand of congrats for getting this far, but I...

i wonder what the context is for his saying this. 🤔

It’s total shit :) Based on a fundamentally-flawed understanding of, well, everything to do with writing and reading. Make no mistake. This is very obviously the next “step” towards total manuscript automation, which has been a wet dream for a...

Just seems to me that writers need to have a grip on their audience and readers when they conceive their story. And if everybody is writing to the same "demographic' you basically hae AI generated fiction. The real truth is the right book can...

URK? Not sure how I feel about this... how much is useful. How much is just following your nose up your own back passage? Helsinki-based Get Lost has announced the alpha launch of BookID, an AI-powered manuscript analysis tool designed to help...

"We all of us have limited amounts of energy, and I am sure the people who are successful have learned, either by instinct or consciously, to use their energies well instead of spilling them about. And this has to be different for every person...

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 23rd December 2025 Book industry M&A in 2025: key deals and trends A Publishers Weekly report on mergers and acquisitions noted that 2025 saw significant deals such as Lakeside Book Company’s purchase of Baker &...

The Walliams story is one of the biggest of the year. He was a huge money-earner for HC. This together with yet more revelations about “The Salt Path” and its apparently-fraudulent author - Raynor Winn – raises very serious issues about due...

The Walliams story is one of the biggest of the year. He was a huge money-earner for HC. This together with yet more revelations about “The Salt Path” and its apparently-fraudulent author - Raynor Winn – raises very serious issues about due...

The stories about David Williams are interesting for a number of reasons. I know nothing of the allegations nor the facts, so can't judge. I have neither fondness nor antipathy towards this celebrity writer. But that the author himself apparently...

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 23rd December 2025 Book industry M&A in 2025: key deals and trends A Publishers Weekly report on mergers and acquisitions noted that 2025 saw significant deals such as Lakeside Book Company’s purchase of Baker &...

"We all of us have limited amounts of energy, and I am sure the people who are successful have learned, either by instinct or consciously, to use their energies well instead of spilling them about. And this has to be different for every person...

Thank you! I appreciate that.

Hi Silver, Welcome to Litopia. I'm pleased to see you've already signed up to the Directory of Critters! I hope you're finding your way around. Any questions, just ask. Someone will know the answer. Nice to meet you, Rachel:)

Welcome Silver! Great to have you on board. My advice to everyone here is to check in on the Lab read through a couple threads and see if there's anything that interests you. If there is, try dropping a critique or several. It's amazing how much...