Author Update
Here’s what you can expect from Author Update: Publishing News: Stay in the loop on what’s happening in the industry. Advice That Matters: Learn how to make your book irresistible to readers. Live Q&A: Bring your questions and get answers from Thomas Umstattd and Jonathan Shuerger.
Episodes
Plus, Facebook limits outbound links, a new class action suit is about to open up against OpenAI, and Toys'R'Us returns.
Plus, new updates to computer systems, a longer preorder window on Amazon and how an experiment on mice will affect your target market today.
Plus, a lengthy discussion on the death of Charlie Kirk and what that has meant for America.
Also, Thomas and Jonathan make everyone mad... ever.
Plus, non-cozy mystery numbers, Kindle price hikes and the passing of Dolly Parton.
Lots of AI news today, with new models, new systems and new possibilities for authors to use.
Plus, new numbers in the industry, workbots to help with author work and a spicy zeitgeist take on how media is destroying women.
Plus, we discuss country music, AI as used as a research tool, and an author who lost a lucrative tradpub deal because of an accusation.
Advancements in AI, changes in how agents work and the change in reader preferences.
All the new AI models, China's surge to tech dominance and why we should write flash floods in our books.
Plus indie stats on readers and authors, Gemini's in trouble for committing Anthropic's mistake, and how should we focus our writing, all on Author Update.
Listen to Jonathan and guest host Bryan Canter talk about author news on this special episode of Author Update.
All things America! Thomas and Jonathan celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States by discussing publishing trends and how America was shaped by independent publishers.
Plus, numbers on trad vs. Indie publishing, OpenAI's hesitancy to release a new version of ChatGPT after Fable's cancellation, and an hour long zeitgeist session of vigilante justice. This is Author Update.
Plus, the US government bans Anthropic's Fable 5, and we talk the unrest in the UK.
Plus, tech news on Meta and Anthropic, and we go over the fun in each country's culture.
Plus, declining Pride month sales, Audible fires back at Spotify, and exactly what is afflicting Gen Z men?
Plus, Amazon debuts a new paper option for paper books, and Thomas unpacks the pope's latest encyclical and how it relates to AI.
Plus trad publishing numbers, AI news out the whazoo and the zeitgeist on baby names.
Plus NewsCorps's new business model, ChatGPT's religious bias, and the zeitgeist take on Christopher Nolan's Odyssey.
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