Online bookshop focusing on category fiction - everything from SF to fantasy, horror to thrillers and crime to romance. With biographies of 15,000 authors and 250,000 books, it's a fantastic resource. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
Ambitious brand-new online bookselling site, set up by the Poetry Book SocietySpecialist book club founded by T S Eliot in 1953, which aims to offer the best new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. Members buy at 25% discount. The PBS has a handsome new website at www.poetrybooks.co.uk, which offers 90,000 poetry titles available in the UK and continuously updated news, articles, poetry events, updates and information about poetry. www.poetrybookshoponline.com
Digital bookstore selling wide range of ebooks in 50 categories from Hildegard of Bingen to How to Write a Dirty Story and showing how the range of ebooks available is growing. http://www.ebooks.com/
New name for Library Association Publishing, this offers a range of books for the information technology market, including an annual directory called Libraries and Information Services in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with 3,000 libraries. www.facetpublishing.co.uk
Extraordinary Canadian site linking network of 10,000 booksellers of rare, secondhand and out-of-print books internationally. English, French and German sites give access to over 40 million titles. Booksellers pay subscription based on number of titles for the online capability of selling their books anywhere in the world. www.abebooks.com
High quality subscription-only UK-based international book service which carries a wide range of recommended and reviewed titles. www.thegoodbookguide.com
Crisp and well-presented site from new UK romance publisher which brings a breath of fresh air to romance writing. Information for writers and sales site. www.heartlinebooks.com
Rather cheeky but entertaining author's site which carries authors' interviews and a tongue-in-cheek list of what those agents' rejection letters really mean. http://www.andreasemple.com
‘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.
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.
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.
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Until we have a mechanism to test for artificial intelligence, writers need a tool to maintain trust in their work. So I decided to be completely open with my readers
'Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.'