The next piece in my #AI series for FORTUNE focuses on the BBC, which is combining a dozen experiments with stringent ethics to try and prove gen AI doesn't have to be a dystopian media force...

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Brazen Books, the 🔥 🔥 imprint of Octopus Publishing, is looking for a commissioning editor. If you love bold literary writing, it would be a dream job, plus you'd get to work with romilly morgan, which is a massive bonus. 👇🏻

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'For about three months, we couldn’t work on anything new as we were just handling the drama and spam...'

If you're thinking about launching a publishing startup, entrepreneur Sydney Liu has some hard-earned advice, from moderation to SEO.

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Also excited.

'I know there are a bunch more magical fantasy bricks coming my way in the next few months and I do not want to sell them to children.'

Love this punchy piece on whether the trend for huge kids' fantasy books appeals more to kids - or their parents

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Just up: a little something I wrote for FORTUNE on how UK book publishers are getting their revenge on AI using, well, AI.

Feat. the awesome Sara Lloyd and Nadim Sadek.

#AI #BookTwitter #publishing

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This is great. Listen to this.

The Surrey New Writing Prize is a new short story prize open to UK-based writers. Seeking fresh, original interpretations of the theme 'People & Artificial Intelligence'. First prize £1400 second prize £400 third prize £200.

Deadline 18/4. Enter here: shorturl.at/adiuE

With guests from Sathnam Sanghera to AF Steadman to Chloe Michelle Howarth, tomorrow begins the first week of the brand new Nibbies podcast: conversations with authors shortlisted for The #BritishBookAwards , hosted by Hannah MacInnes (Hannah MacInnes)✨

📢We've officially opened our doors again! Or, we're now receiving applications for our Open Doors Project 📢

If you're from a traditionally under-represented background, looking for a publishing role, please consider applying before 25.04 :

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'I am terrified, to my very bones, that I am a nothing-person, standing on street corners, shilling my wares, hoping, desperately, that someone will pay me some attention.'

Incredibly vulnerable and resonant piece out today from Kasim Ali.

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This is both heartbreaking & maddening.
The creative industries account for more than £100bn to UK economy, 15.9% of all UK service exports.; there is more production space here than anywhere in world outside of Hollywood. RT if agree!
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✨TGLA is open for submissions!✨
Each month between the 1st – 21st we are open to submissions from all writers who are under-represented in mainstream publishing. To check eligibility & to submit, click here: thegoodliteraryagency.org/submissions/

Truly The Phoenix comic is awesome. Wish I'd had it as a kid. It used to be so hard to find great comics & graphic novels in the UK, esp in mainstream bookshops, but so the likes of Jamie Smart Neill Cameron Sam Davies Jess Bradley have been driving a bottom-up revolution.

After a golden age for book adaptations, the networks are cutting down on shows. What does this mean for authors hoping to make it big with the streaming giants (which is, er, all of us) - and is there anything we can do?

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Come and join us as we launch our new website – celebrating twenty-five years in independent publishing. Discover this year’s amazing books and learn more about our work. Salt is commencing a new phase of development – subscribe now to discover more. Please RT – sincere thanks.

In other casual news, this article from The School of Life is literally the answer to everything.

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Top of the Easter reading list. I've heard amazing things.

'Every opportunity must be grabbed. Every event must be accepted. Every date in the diary must be booked and then double-booked. If I work harder then we’ll do better.'

I think most of us could benefit from Max Minerva’s Marvellous Books & More' piece today, booksellers or no.

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Molly Flatt Pan Macmillan The Bookseller bigbookweekend I am a bundle of nerves because I have just launched my first edition hardback Kickstarter for 'Secret Street', the fiction-based-on-fact book of linked stories. Would be great if you fancy tweeting it! kickstarter.com/projects/secre…