Join hosts JD Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week’s entertainment news, including how the U.K.’s biggest publishers are using AI, Amazon adding Andrew Ng, and Amazon putting all three Claude AI models on Bedrock. Then, stick around for a chat with author CJ Tudor!

C. J. Tudor‘s love of writing, especially the dark and macabre, started young. When her peers were reading Judy Blume, she was devouring Stephen King and James Herbert.

Over the years she has had a variety of jobs, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, dog walker, voiceover artist, television presenter, copywriter and, now, author.

Her first novel, The Chalk Man, was a Sunday Times bestseller, has sold in over forty countries and will be developed into a six-part drama with BBC Studios Production. Her second novel, The Taking of Annie Thorne, was also a Sunday Times bestseller as was her third novel The Other People. Her fourth novel, The Burning Girls, was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection and is being adapted for Paramount+ by award-winning screenwriter Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of The Bridge and Marcella.

She lives in Sussex, England with her family.

Check It Out!

The Gathering: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gathering-C-J-Tudor/dp/0241486262

While streaming giants slash budgets and users flock from X, the U.K.’s biggest publishers are using AI (with a little help from Prince Harry) to get us hooked back on books – https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/17/users-flock-elon-musk-x-u-k-s-publishers-pan-macmillan-penguin-hachette-using-ai/

Amazon adds Andrew Ng, a leading voice in artificial intelligence, to its board of directors – https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/amazon-adds-andrew-ng-leading-voice-artificial-intelligence-109131972

Amazon Puts All Three Claude AI Models on Bedrock – https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2024/amazon-puts-all-three-claude-ai-models-on-bedrock/

Maestro is now available on all Amazon Music tiers in beta to a subset of U.S. customers on iOS and Android – https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/amazon-music-maestro-ai-playlist-generator

Show Links:

Writers, Ink on YouTube! – ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@jdbarker_author/podcasts⁠⁠⁠

J.D. Barker – ⁠⁠⁠https://jdbarker.com/⁠⁠⁠

Christine Daigle – ⁠⁠⁠https://www.christinedaiglebooks.com/⁠⁠⁠

Jena Brown – https://www.⁠⁠⁠jenabrownwrites.com

Kevin Tumlinson – ⁠⁠⁠https://www.kevintumlinson.com/⁠

CJ Tudor – https://www.cjtudor.com/

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