Matt James

Matt James joins Penguin Life as senior commissioning editor Matt James is joining Penguin Life as senior commissioning editor, acquiring books across the high performance, productivity, focus and personal development categories.

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I love how LinkedIn tries to keep focus on business, tech, finance etc. but its middle-manager user base can't deny that this is the news they're really interested in.

#SpotifyWrapped this year dominated by Cassandra Jenkins... I promise I'm not depressed 😅

Wasn't she great - see you there!

Cassandra Jenkins at EartH tonight 🥹 Instantly buying tickets to see her again.

New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

Wow, even the co-founders look AI-generated!

Some great reportage from The Bookseller challenging their pretensions that they've published "bestsellers" and that they're not just another self-publishing business.

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Street full of parked cars in Bordeaux France, Google photo from 2008.

Same location in Bordeaux photo taken by me in 2023.

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

Sad to leave the Victoria House office for the last time as Bonnier relocates to Moorgate.

I'll miss the bougie regal atmosphere (but not the arctic climate or constant sounds of drilling!)

De La Soul Denounce “Unauthorized” Book About The Group, Are Exploring Legal Options On Tuesday (Nov. 19), author Marcus J. Moore published his new book High And Rising: A Book About De La Soul on Dey Street Books. Today, the legendary hip-hop group took to social media to denounce th...

Solidarity with all writers of unauthorized biographies doing their best to research, honor, and interpret a legend's story without relying on access

MJ Lenderman was so good tonight. I feel very lucky to have seen him at such a small venue - won't get the opportunity again.

A ★★★★½ review of Gladiator II (2024) Shocked that this is genuinely better than the first film. It's campy, epic and bloody - it was made for those of us who think about the Roman Empire on a daily basis. Denzel absolutely stole the show...

I can't quite believe it, but Gladiator 2 was even better than the first one

My ★★★★½ review of Gladiator II on Letterboxd boxd.it/7OEF2D

So it looks like this place is finally happening (maybe?). I'm here for it!

Saw Phosphorescent last night at Koko and it was incredible. Perfect band, perfect venue, perfect setlist 🤌

Five Days in Rome When I visited Rome in May 2024, I kept a diary. This is my first attempt at travel writing and also a way for me to document my…

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Is using ChatGPT to write your book plagiarism? My latest Medium article: mattjameswrites.medium.com/ai-in-publis...

I wrote about my favourite albums to listen to when writing or editing, from ambience to post-rock:

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I've started writing Medium articles sharing my thoughts on editing, writing or anything else that crosses my mind.

As I'm new to this, I thought I'd start sharing them here (because barely anyone will see them).

Here's my first: 'Crafting Your Non-Fiction Proposal'

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That's none of your business, Spotify 😵

Also ended the night with a Paul Mescal sighting (he's shorter than you'd think)

The Japanese House put on a great show tonight 👌 She's going places... Only held back by a confusing stage name

I feel flattered that Blue Sky has recognized my sketches of breasts as "suggestive content"

Went life drawing for the first time in a while. I'd forgotten how therapeutic it is 🧘🏻

I guess part of the difficulty is that no news outlets seem to be here yet. But maybe I should be treating this as a new space rather than as a replacement 🤷

Is everyone else also slowly trying to break the habit of clicking on 'X' to come here instead?

Despite Elon making a mess of it, it's proving to be a tough habit to break...