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I tried to communicate my pain, but words and movement stayed bottled inside as the surgeon cut open my chest, the anaesthetist smiling by my side.

As we spoke different languages, words were useless, but money still talked.

Over the past few years, there has been a shift in YA towards the crossover (New Adult) end of the market. This has mainly been driven by TikTok promotion of novels such as Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing and Sarah J Maas COTAR. The drive towards NA...

This is for very kind of story. And one of our Litopians won first prize in the sci Fi last year. https://www.iaminprint.co.uk/competitions-2026/

Hi RK could I be included in the exercise. It looks cool.

Just finished A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge and LOVED it! I'd call it a Gothic thriller/speculative fiction/historical fiction genre mix. It's labelled as YA but, imo, is equally suited to sit alongside e.g Liz Hyder's The Gifts or...

Yeah, I was in rant mode... but if you can't rant about AI, what can you...? :)

I love love love it! Especially this: "Very cheap genre fiction produced by AI is attractive to some publishers, but the more sensible publishers will realise that readers relate to authors." and the end: "...writing is not an end unto itself...

Your humble agent had his say in yesterday’s Independent about the publishing industry and AI… see what you think… :) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/publishing-artificial-intelligence-shy-girl-creative-industries-b2948601.html

I love love love it! Especially this: "Very cheap genre fiction produced by AI is attractive to some publishers, but the more sensible publishers will realise that readers relate to authors." and the end: "...writing is not an end unto itself...

The gossip thing was said on a zoom with the "God" when I was in another Irish writers group. The other was said publicly about Maeve Binchy, and a lot of other popular commercial writers who happened to be female. Boy did he get told off by...

She dialled the number she knew by heart, relieved to recognise the voice that answered, even though there had been no communication for the last twenty-five years.

Your humble agent had his say in yesterday’s Independent about the publishing industry and AI… see what you think… :) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/publishing-artificial-intelligence-shy-girl-creative-industries-b2948601.html

Yeah, I was in rant mode... but if you can't rant about AI, what can you...? :)

I love love love it! Especially this: "Very cheap genre fiction produced by AI is attractive to some publishers, but the more sensible publishers will realise that readers relate to authors." and the end: "...writing is not an end unto itself...