Hannah (hveditorial)

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

Banner reading Sui Generis

Author crouched outside a window of Saint Louis University Madrid

Drummer on stage in front of banner of a woman

Author standing with reader holding his book

Had a great time last week at at Sui Generis in Madrid. Got to share the stage w/ writers like @gabino.bsky.social & @fondalee.bsky.social, meet w/my Spanish publishers @duermevelaed.bsky.social, speak w/ students at SLU Madrid & wax poetic bout all things fantastic. Also ate my weight in cured ham.

A lot of identifying themes to deepen in your own work is just pattern recognition.

If you have a major character who keeps betraying his friends, then you're writing a story (at least in part) about betraying your friends, and the consequences thereof.

Whatever keeps happening is a theme.

The way people use the Booker Prize to talk about whether books are for girls or for boys is so embarrassing.

“Librarians are the last punk rockers.”
—my colleague in today’s staff meeting

I don't need AI; I need a Microsoft Word that doesn't hide some comments when you switch to "simple markup."

Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire by Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

Congratulations to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, whose book Required Reading has been shortlisted for @thenacbs.bsky.social's Stansky Book Prize! The winner will be announced on Wednesday, November 5th, at the 12:00pm EST virtual awards ceremony.

See the full shortlist here: www.nacbs.org/news/stansky...

Why did I not link to the lineup?
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Pioneers of African American Cinema curation via The Criterion Channel

The Criterion Collection lineup for November hits all my very specific filmic interests, including a restoration of Zora Neale Hurston's fieldwork footage???

Dick Hallorann, my beloved 😭🧡🔮

#WelcomeToDerry

Want to hear a scary story? It’s about an author who didn’t register their copyright and had no recourse when someone infringed on their work!! ☠️

Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books Hermann/Pixabay Following our coverage this summer of a book with citations that did not exist, we asked you to send us examples of other books with similar issues. One reader took the request as a…

Can you trust the #accuracy of #science #publications? Some now use #AI in #publishing for #editing or #translation. Thus, skilled #science & #medical #editors & #translators are losing #authors & #publishers as clients, who hope to save #money by not #hiring #humans. tinyurl.com/mrxsk36j

Welcome to Derry is so good! I like how the show tricks us by making us assume the new group of kids are a stand in for the losers in the IT movies just to kill most of them off by the end of the episode. It’s clear they’re going in a totally different direction for the show

If they wanted to double their sales overnight? Start providing a zip folder containing blurbs, BISAC, and three to five web-ready images with each title stocked. It would shave hours off our work day, with the immediate effect that we'd prefer them over the rest of our suppliers.

lol, publishers pushing for bookstores to use AI to recommend books 🙄

They'd have to give the AI, like, information about the books, or something.

We're what, 40 years into computerized point of sale systems? And they still don't give us even spreadsheets of basic bibliographic data consistently.

Having to use #CMOS 17 when I need to look up something quick for author-date citations because CMOS 18's citation chapters are now stupidly difficult to navigate 🫠

#AmCopyediting

See also: What if hanging out with your friends was really important?

150 pages into Joe Hill's KING SORROW and I'm struck by how fundamentally kind it is: What if your big, scary enemies were really small and human? What if your big, scary revenge fantasies pained you when played out in real life? What if they revealed you to be small and human, too?

#booksky

Ask UP logo, tagline: Authors Seeking Knowledge from University Presses

What does “royalties will be paid on net profit” mean? https://bit.ly/3IU7cKY

University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site.

Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

Scholars who use art catalogs for their research & teaching will want to revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Reiko Yoshimura & Kit Brooks introducing the history and goals of the Japan Art Catalog Project, which makes rare & hard to acquire art catalogs available! Seet: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

Case for Environmental Harm as a 12th Crime Against Humanity Addressing the global environmental crisis requires urgent action. This treaty offers an opportunity to confront it directly and decisively.

From Saddam Hussein’s draining of southern Iraq’s marshes to Russia’s attacks on a Ukrainian dam and nuclear power plant, calls are increasing to recognize mass environmental harms as international crimes.

@leilasadat1.bsky.social outlines a role for the proposed #CrimesAgainstHumanity treaty:

All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles. Book cover is in the style of a classic gothic pulp fiction cover, but with two men in suits fleeing from the foggy manor house instead of a lady in distress.

My library got me a Halloween present.

KJ Charles's writing is really living up to the cover. It feels like the KNIVES OUT cast meets THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO.

#booksky

Maybe a better example to show how impact/tone changes:

👍We must stand up for rights like freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

🤔We must stand up for rights like freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, etc.

Lots of academics use lists that aren't comprehensive, and ending multiple sentences per page with "and others" or "et cetera" gives the writing a wishy-washy, "yadda yadda" tone that's never intended.

#Copyediting tip: If you've already framed a list as being nonexhaustive, you don't need to end that list with a repetitive "etc."

YES: Examples of great vegetable include zucchini, squash, and pumpkin.

NOPE: Examples of great vegetables include zucchini, squash, pumpkin, and others.

New job:

Open Rank Faculty Positions in Japanese Studies at the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, Tohoku University

Tohoku University

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69218

My subway take: AI will actually be good because it’ll make the internet so useless that we will have to reset our relationship to it

Audrey Hepburn in costume as Holly Golightly.

“She was some kind of spectacular lady.” — director Blake Edwards on Audrey Hepburn

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) is streaming on Kanopy and Hoopla (free with a library card) if you'd like to celebrate the 64th anniversary of its premiere.

#FilmSky #Streaming

Workshop: How to Connect with Scholarly Publishers Acquiring editors want to meet authors and hear about their book projects. But how and when should you reach out and what should you say? This free workshop from Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Wo...

I’m giving a free workshop *today* on how to connect with editors at scholarly publishers. Let’s take some anxiety out of this first step so you don’t let fear or confusion about norms keep you from moving forward with publishing your book

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I'm writing a breakneck action sequence that I intend the reader to consume more or less in a single breath, flying urgently through the pages.

It's taken me all morning to do 500 words.