Newsletter 134. AI is overtaxing experts, and we’re all going to pay. Plus, the irrationally of the bestseller list, what books sold in 2025, three people to follow, three books to read, and one coach to rule them all. AI and the expert’s burden. A friend, who is a fellow ghostwriter and editor, recently came…
Newsletter 133. Even in neutral spaces, ICE is generating outrage. Plus, is Anthropic planning to mutilate and devour your book, the world’s worst Crocs/Lego crossover, three people to follow, three books to read, and a virtual author coach. Could social media overpower a masked police force Eighteen years ago, Charlene Li and I published an…
Every writer should have a standard AI disclosure posted. They should also include it in their contracts. Anyone working with a writer — whether they’re a ghostwriter, an author, or any other kind of writer — deserves to know how they use AI. By posting this information, you make it clear to others which AI…
Vanity Fair just published a two-part article on the brain trust surrounding Donald Trump. The writer, Chris Whipple, is the author of a book on chiefs of staff in the White House. The photos were by Christopher Anderson, an accomplished portrait photographer. Trump’s advisors look very, very bad in this piece. His chief of staff…
Newsletter 129. Strategies for principled ghostwriters, Kindle enables AI queries, the polarization risk of closer social connections, plus three people to follow and three books to read. Who wins when a ghostwriter disagrees with a client? Sometimes ghostwriters and their clients have a serious disagreement. I’m not talking about the Oxford Comma (although as serious…
According to TechCrunch India: India has proposed a mandatory royalty system for AI companies that train their models on copyrighted content — a move that could reshape how OpenAI and Google operate in what has already become one of their most important and fastest-growing markets globally. On Tuesday, India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade released a…
The media company Warner Bros./Discovery has been in play for months. It just accepted a bid from Netflix for $83 billion — for its production studio assets and HBO Max streaming services only. This deal may face antitrust scrutiny for consolidation in the streaming space and may not go through. Paramount/Skydance and Comcast/NBC were outbid…
You want writing in a hurry? Great! I love to work fast. This could work out well. It could also be a disaster. Here’s what I need to complete a rush job (and you’ll find this applies to most good, fast writers). I actually prefer speedy writing If all the right pieces are in place,…
Yesterday, I announced that we were releasing the results of a survey, sponsored by Gotham Ghostwriters, of 1,481 writing professionals about their attitudes about AI. From time to time, I’ll be examining and sharing data from that survey in more detail. One of the most interesting parts of the survey compared attitudes of different groups…