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AI: Copyright Challenges Now Include a New York Times Lawsuit

Wed, 17/01/2024 - 1:34pm — Chris Holifield

15 January 2024

AI: Copyright Challenges Now Include a New York Times Lawsuit website

In the still of the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, The New York Times ran its story announcing its lawsuit of OpenAI and Microsoft over what the Times claims is millions of its articles "used to train chatbots that now compete with it." Read more

'New York Times' Sues OpenAI, Microsoft for Copyright Infringement

Tue, 02/01/2024 - 6:46pm — Chris Holifield

1 January 2024

'New York Times' Sues OpenAI, Microsoft for Copyright Infringement website

The New York Times this week filed suit against Open AI and Microsoft over the unauthorized use of its intellectual property in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Read more

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Q&A: author Helen Fields

Wed, 08/05/2024 - 3:00pm — Chris Holifield

6 May 2024

Q&A: author Helen Fields website

'The one thing I take with me into my writing every single day, is that no one is ever really who you think they are. We're all projections of the person we think we should be' Read more

Heather Graham on Ancient Texts and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ‹ CrimeReads

Wed, 08/05/2024 - 2:56pm — Chris Holifield

6 May 2024

Heather Graham on Ancient Texts and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ‹ CrimeReads website

The novelist reflects on reaching the end of a series

Money therapy

Wed, 08/05/2024 - 2:52pm — Chris Holifield

6 May 2024

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Psychotherapist Vicky Reynal on writing about attitudes to money for a general audience

A new start after 60: after a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop! | Creative writing | The Guardian

Wed, 08/05/2024 - 2:49pm — Chris Holifield

6 May 2024

A new start after 60: after a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop! | Creative writing | The Guardian website

After a successful career as a talent agent - representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant - Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing - and refused to give up on her passion.

Anthony Horowitz on Giving Himself a New Role in His Latest Mystery ‹ CrimeReads

Wed, 08/05/2024 - 2:46pm — Chris Holifield

6 May 2024

Anthony Horowitz on Giving Himself a New Role in His Latest Mystery ‹ CrimeReads website

Anthony Horowitz is missing.

Not the real Anthony Horowitz, of course. He's exactly where you'd expect him to be-hunkered down at his desk, toiling away at the next novel even as his newest is hitting bookshelves around the world.

'The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.'

— Stephen King

The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2024

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1 June 2024

Entry:

Open to unpublished, unagented children’s writers based anywhere in the world. Entry fee £20

Prize:

First Prize: a publishing contract with Chicken House with an advance of £10,000, plus the offer of representation from literary agent representation by Lydia Silver of Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency.

The Times/Chicken House Prize Read more

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‘I always quote Kurt Vonnegut. He said in the early part of his career he was dismissed as a science fiction writer and that critics tend to put genre books, including sci-fi, in the bottom drawer of their desk... It's true. I get the New York Times every Sunday. In 37 novels, I've never had a stand-alone review. I'm always in the crime round-up.

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Amazon ebooks: Are the Mikkelsen twins running a scam? Here’s our investigation - Vox

Wed, 17/04/2024 - 10:01am — Chris Holifield

15 April 2024

Amazon ebooks: Are the Mikkelsen twins running a scam? Here’s our investigation - Vox website

It's partly AI, partly a get-rich-quick scheme, and entirely bad for confused consumers.

The Bookseller - News - A third of translators report losing work to generative AI systems, SoA survey reveals

Tue, 16/04/2024 - 5:05pm — Chris Holifield

15 April 2024

The Bookseller - News - A third of translators report losing work to generative AI systems, SoA survey reveals website

A survey of 787 members of the Society of Authors (SoA) has found that a third of translators and a quarter of illustrators have lost work to generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Translators are also more likely to use AI to support their work, with 37% of respondents saying they have done so, followed by 25% of non-fiction writers.

Lynne Reid Banks, author of The Indian in the Cupboard, dies aged 94 | Books | The Guardian

Tue, 16/04/2024 - 5:03pm — Chris Holifield

15 April 2024

Lynne Reid Banks, author of The Indian in the Cupboard, dies aged 94 | Books | The Guardian website

The author Lynne Reid Banks, known for her novel The L-Shaped Room and her children's book series The Indian in the Cupboard, has died at the age of 94.

Carter Wilson Interviewed Hundreds of Writers — Here’s What He Learned From Them | BookTrib.

Tue, 16/04/2024 - 4:54pm — Chris Holifield

15 April 2024

Carter Wilson Interviewed Hundreds of Writers — Here’s What He Learned From Them | BookTrib. website

I launched my podcast Making It Up nearly three years ago with the goal of interviewing writers not for any particular work of theirs, but to talk to them about their lives. I didn't want to ask them what famous author they want to have dinner with or what their top five favorite books are ... yech. Read more

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