Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Kevin Tumlinson, and Jena Brown as they discuss the week’s entertainment news. Then, stick around for a chat with Karin Slaughter!
Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed storytellers. She is the author of more than twenty instant New York Times bestselling novels, including the Edgar–nominated Cop Town and standalone novels Pretty Girls, The Good Daughter, and Pieces of Her. She is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her is a #1 Netflix original series starring Toni Collette, and WILL TRENT, based on her Will Trent series, is on ABC (and streaming on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally). False Witness and The Good Daughter are in development for television. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.
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This Is Why We Lied – https://www.karinslaughter.com/this-is-why-we-lied
Karin Slaughter – https://www.karinslaughter.com/
Apple Requirements Are About To Hit Fans of Patreon – https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon?utm_campaign=240812-IAP-SB-1stoftheMonth&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable
A Grim Fate Befalls Horror Publisher DarkLit Press – https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/95703-a-grim-fate-befalls-horror-publisher-darklit-press.html
This cookbook author was a best-seller on Amazon — but she may not even be human – https://nypost.com/2024/07/30/lifestyle/cookbook-author-was-amazon-best-seller-but-may-have-been-ai
OpenAI could be about to drop Project Strawberry in huge ChatGPT upgrade – https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/openai-could-be-about-to-drop-project-strawberry-in-huge-chatgpt-upgrade?_bhlid=b5abbae66e606288511735e7de0cee0636f72aca
Daisy Alioto has big ambitions for her small media empire – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/style/dirt-newsletter-daisy-alioto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CU4.AO3v.lQeZoKJW3Zwn&smid=url-share
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L.S. Stratton – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22310621.L_S_Stratton
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Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week’s entertainment news, including Laureate Alice Munro, the DOJ’s suit to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster, how OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models, and GPT-4o. Then, stick around for a chat with author Kate White!
Kate White is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of eighteen novels of suspense: ten standalone psychological thrillers, including the upcoming The Last Time She Saw Him (May ’24), and also eight Bailey Weggins mysteries.
For fourteen years Kate served as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, which under her became the most successful magazine in single copy sales in the U.S. Though she loved her magazine career, she decided to leave ten years ago to concentrate full-time on another passion: writing suspense fiction.
Kate’s first mystery, If Looks Could Kill, was a Kelly Ripa Book Club pick, a #1 bestseller on Amazon, and an instant New York Times bestseller. She has been nominated for an International Thriller Writers Award in the fiction category, and her books have been published in over 30 countries worldwide.
Like many female mystery authors, Kate fell in love with the genre after reading her first Nancy Drew book, in her case The Secret of Redgate Farm.
Kate is a frequent speaker at libraries, book conferences, and organizations, and has appeared on many television shows, including The Today Show, CBS This Morning, Morning Joe, and Good Morning America.
She is also the editor of the Mystery Writers of America Cookbook, as well as the author of several bestselling career books, including I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This and the ground-breaking Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do.
Kate is an avid traveler and enjoys spending each winter with her husband at their home in Uruguay. She holds an honorary doctorate of letters from her alma mater, Union College, where she gave the 2022 commencement speech.
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The Last Time She Saw Him: A Novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063247399/keywords=thrillers
Nobel Laureate Alice Munro Has Died – https://apnews.com/article/alice-munro-dies-f2311484b33c450ab16331aef6548631
The Trial – The DOJ’s Suit to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon & Schuster – https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2022/09/more-on-the-trial/
OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models. The employees who collected the data are gone – https://web.archive.org/web/20240510161715/https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-destroyed-ai-training-datasets-lawsuit-authors-books-copyright-2024-5
HELLO GPT-4o – https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/
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Join hosts JD Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week’s entertainment news, including science fiction authors being excluded from the Hugo Awards for fear of offending China, how romance bookstores took over America, and OpenAI Sora. Then, stick around as Christine chats with author Gregg Hurwitz!
Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 24 thrillers including the Orphan X series. His novels have won numerous literary awards and have been published in 33 languages. Gregg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Additionally, he’s written screenplays and television scripts for many of the major studios and networks, comics for AWA (including the critically acclaimed anthology NewThink), DC, and Marvel, and poetry. Currently, Gregg is actively working against polarization in politics and culture. To that end, he’s penned op eds for The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Bulwark and others, and has produced several hundred commercials which got over a hundred million views on digital TV platforms. He also helped write the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup.
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Lone Wolf: https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Wolf-Orphan-Novel/dp/1250871735
Hugo Awards Controversy: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/books/booksupdate/hugo-awards-china.html
Sexily ever after – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/14/romance-bookstores-across-us
OpenAI Sora – https://openai.com/sora
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Gregg Hurwitz – https://gregghurwitz.net/
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Join hosts JD Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week’s entertainment news, including Simon & Schuster being bought by a private equity firm, Open AI book lawsuits, and how a judge’s ruling is impacting AI companies. Then, stick around as Christine chats with author Katherine Arden!
Katherine Arden is the New York Times bestselling author of the Winternight trilogy and the Small Spaces Quartet. In addition to writing, she enjoys aimless travel, growing vegetables, and running wild through the woods with her dog, Moose. She lives in Vermont. For more information about Katherine, check out this page on her website: https://katherineardenbooks.com/about-the-author
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts: https://katherineardenbooks.com/books/the-warm-hands-of-ghosts
Simon & Schuster Interview – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-02-10/stavros-simon-schuster-was-an-unloved-gem
OpenAI Lawsuits – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/14/two-openai-book-lawsuits-partially-dismissed-by-california-court
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Katherine Arden – https://katherineardenbooks.com/
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Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, JP Rindfleisch, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week’s entertainment news, including some positive news out of Barnes & Noble. Then, stick around as JP chats with author and #1000wordsofsummer founder Jami Attenberg!
Jami Attenberg has written about food, travel, books, relationships, and urban life for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times, The Guardian, and others. She is a New York Times bestselling author of seven works of fiction, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up. Her latest non-fiction book, 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round, was released on January 9 and is available now in ebook and audio.
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1000 Words – https://www.amazon.com/1000-Words-Writers-Creative-Productive-ebook/dp/B0C7RLR19M
The Dialogue Doctor: The Language of Love (A Masterclass in Story Intimacy) – https://dialoguedoctor.teachable.com/p/story-intimacy
JD’s robot snowblower in action – https://www.tiktok.com/@jdbarker_author/video/7321512733466250538
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Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, JP Rindfleisch, Kevin Tumlinson, and Patrick O’Donnell as they discuss the week’s entertainment news, including some optimistic publishing predictions from the stage of the 74th National Book Awards. Then, stick around as Christine chats with crime fiction legend James Ellroy!
Called “The American Dostoyevsky” by Joyce Carol Oates, James Ellroy is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. His latest novel, The Enchanters, came out in September and is available now wherever books are sold.
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The Enchanters – https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-enchanters-james-ellroy/19462467
James Ellroy’s American Tabloid: A Full Cast Audio Drama (An Audible Exclusive) – https://www.amazon.com/James-Ellroys-American-Tabloid-Audio/dp/B0CJ16ZQQH
Write Publish Profit 6.0: Join The Waiting List! – https://infostack.io/stack/wpp6/
“David Steinberger’s Narrative” (via Publishing Perspectives) – https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/11/the-national-book-awards-david-steinbergers-narrative/
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JP Rindfleisch IX – https://www.jprindfleischix.com/
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Patrick O’Donnell – https://www.copsandwriters.com/
James Ellroy – https://www.jamesellroy.net/
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Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, JP Rindfleisch IX, Kevin Tumlinson, and Patrick O’Donnell as they discuss the week’s publishing topics, including the copyright lawsuit two well-known authors are bringing against OpenAI. Then stick around as Christine chats with New York Times and USA Today bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub!
Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than ninety novels, best known for the single-title psychological suspense novels she writes under her own name. Those books and the women’s fiction written under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also appeared on the USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookscan bestseller lists. Her latest novel, Windfall, releases tomorrow, July 11, 2023, and is available for preorder now.
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Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay’s suit against OpenAI – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/05/authors-file-a-lawsuit-against-openai-for-unlawfully-ingesting-their-books
Hinton Publishing – https://www.hintonpublishing.com/
“The Year of The Slim Volume” – https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a44377129/short-books-popularity/
Submit your solar punk/optimistic sci-fi, horror ghost stories, or dragon-featured tales to PW for fall coverage consideration (deadline is July 18, so hurry!) – https://www.publishersweekly.com/sffhsept23
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Christine Daigle – https://www.christinedaiglebooks.com/
JP Rindfleisch IX – https://www.jprindfleischix.com/
Kevin Tumlinson – https://www.kevintumlinson.com/
Patrick O’Donnell – https://www.copsandwriters.com/
Wendy Corsi Staub – https://wendycorsistaub.com/
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