Page One - The Writer's Podcast Adventures in Publishing-land: Agents Rail Against AI, Influencer Imprints & Genre Snobbery
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This week on Adventures in Publishing-land, we’re heading to San Francisco to look at Bindery Books. This startup is turning "bookfluencers" into acquiring editors, letting communities choose their own bestsellers. Is this the "Taylor’s Version" of publishing, or a risky bet on "tastemakers"? Plus, we discuss top literary agencies sounding the alarm on "formulaic" and "flattened" AI-generated queries, and also return to the topic of genre snobbery, and why fantasy is making everyone think again about it.
00:00 Intro
01:17 Facile & Formulaic - Agents Ban AI Queries
12:21 The Tastemaker Model - BookTok Becomes The Editor
21.39 Myth-understandings - Fighting Genre Snobbery
34:35 - Off Script: Stranger Than Fiction
39:53 Final Chapter - A Wonderful New Take on Superheroes
Links:
Literary agents urge writers to avoid AI as they see ‘change in nature of submissions’
Bindery Books Influencer-led Publishing Model
Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy
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