If you’ve ever been to a bookstore with an author, you may have noticed something unique: Authors don’t check out new books like normal people. Your average reader, when picking up a book, will first inspect the cover, then he or she will read the summary, and finally he or she will glance at the
A Sydney author – I’ll call her Rebecca – vowed never to write another book after the maddening experience of publishing her first book. She is using a pseudonym because one day she may change her mind; The notoriously small Australian publishing industry does not view complaining authors with favour. When Rebecca was proofreading her
Leading literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize after widespread allegations of the use of AI were made against one of this year’s winners. The magazine said it would no longer engage in “external publishing partnerships” over which it has no editorial control. In a