Robot journalists! What could possibly go wrong? (via Book Bench)
“Houses are not homes – they are holes and caves.” Apparently, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is a short story writer. And he’s not very good.
Happy birthday to the Millions!
“It is the sources that shackle a non-fiction writer: if something didn’t happen, you can’t say that it did.” Juliet Gardiner discussed the difference between writing non-fiction and fiction at the Guardian.
Apparently, the “digital tipping point” is coming, which means, according to this guy, that any publisher will get eaten alive by startups if they haven’t embraced e-book and other digital technologies by then.
A letter to first-time authors at Pank: “You’ll have to appear. In public. And talk. To people.”
