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An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help. open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/w... (This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)

We spoke to the wonderful Tom Cox about his splendid new novel Everything Will Swallow You, as well as 90s indy music heroes Madder Rose, the weight of possessions, mortality and more: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

We spoke to the wonderful Tom Cox about his splendid new novel Everything Will Swallow You, as well as 90s indy music heroes Madder Rose, the weight of possessions, mortality and more: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

substack.com/@samj/note/c... New Links, Tips and Suggestions for the week. Featuring book bans, book unbans, AI battles, Maurice Sendak and a failed Ghosh pun.

We have news! In our new newsletter. Information on our critical reading class, books, fighting fascism and more: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...

On this week's episode we fight back against tech bros and their AI slop and speak to Josephine Rowe about her poetic (and human!) novel Little World: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

Our latest episode contains details of The Galley Beggar Press short story Prize, a big Henry James read coming up at the Big Book Project and a fascinating conversation with Issa Quincy, writer who has been compared to Marcel Proust (!): www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

Our latest episode contains details of The Galley Beggar Press short story Prize, a big Henry James read coming up at the Big Book Project and a fascinating conversation with Issa Quincy, writer who has been compared to Marcel Proust (!): www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

A fascinating interview, I definitely need to read this! A passage read on the show says 'I was his Pygmalion, his plasticine model' when presumably Vincent means he was Galatea to Randall's Pygmalion. Suspects this'll be a deliberate authorial choice indicating Vincent's ignorance of the art world.

Announcing a new tool to fight AI slop in the book world - and authenticate that the books we publish are written by, you know, humans. Books by people vs books by AI open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...

Giving this a boost. Lots of entries so far. Thank you. Hope there are plenty more people working on something to get in by November too. Everyone welcome!

Another edition of Links, Tips and Suggestions is live: samj.substack.com/p/links-tips...

This looks amazing:

Full prize details in our latest newsletter: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

Catherine Lacey talks about her fascinating novel/memoir/memoir/novel The Mobius Book on our latest episode: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

Catherine Lacey talks about her fascinating novel/memoir/memoir/novel The Mobius Book on our latest episode: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

Thrilled that my blog got a mention in the @galleybeggars.bsky.social links, tips and suggestion substack. Made my day! (as I’ve loved Galley Beggars for years. Fact.) “a fascinating and often moving account of Drew's apprenticeship as a writer” open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

The new links, tips and suggestions is live: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/l...

Now it’s after 6pm UK time I can counsel you to take some time off and enjoy buying some hardcore literature:

And @galleybeggars.bsky.social have a summer sale on now so you can pick up Randall, as well as plenty of other exciting novels, stories, satires, epics, essays for silly prices here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/gbp-timeline

It was fun and a privilege to talk with @samjordison.bsky.social and @lorifeathers.bsky.social on the Across the Pond podcast about my novel Randall, 11 years on from its original publication, the YBAs, and my relationship to art and nostalgia. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

You can also read about it in our new newsletter: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...

Alert! Alert! We're having a 35% backlist title sale. And just look at these incredible books: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/gbp-timeline...

We spoke to @jonathangibbs.bsky.social about his wonderful* novel Randall: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Features art! The 1990s! The cruel march of time - and more. (*Vested interest - Galley Beggar had the honour of publishing this one. In 2014. Long ago, but still so close...)

Randall by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social is great. Strong recommend.

Whatever the more high-minded/commercially-realistic arguments, they are unequivocally A BAD THING because my publisher is asking me to provide them, and I just don’t fucking know

RANDALL!

We spoke to @jonathangibbs.bsky.social about his wonderful* novel Randall: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Features art! The 1990s! The cruel march of time - and more. (*Vested interest - Galley Beggar had the honour of publishing this one. In 2014. Long ago, but still so close...)

Publishers and agents often ask writers to supply “comparative titles” when they submit. Is this a good thing? (Spoiler alert! I'm not sure...) open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/c...

An honour for me to write about the wonderful novel, Under The Volcano: www.thetimes.com/culture/book... (Kudos to the subs too - "heroic, fervid and funny" is a fine summary.)

We spoke to Wendy Erskine about her new novel The Benefactors and the conversation was a fascinating as you might expect: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Absolutely cracking book. (Also features enraged news section about publishers 8th Note and Unbound, both departing under a cloud)

Links, Tips and Suggestions substack.com/@samj/note/c...

Our latest newsletter is live: shorturl.at/0KVXi Contains: news. News about Waterblack, upcoming books, upcoming short story prize and more.

Last Chance Siren: Our Meet the Editors webinar is this eve @7pm. Register for free to hear about publishing from amazing editors, Joelle Owusu of #MerkyBooks, @samjordison.bsky.social of @galleybeggars.bsky.social and Katie Bowden from @4thestatebooks.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-e...

It was brilliant being on Across the Pond. Really enjoyed talking to Lori and Sam.

We spoke to Wendy Erskine about her new novel The Benefactors and the conversation was a fascinating as you might expect: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Absolutely cracking book. (Also features enraged news section about publishers 8th Note and Unbound, both departing under a cloud)

The story of the actual War Of The Worlds panic, in Quito, Ecuador, 1949: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/h... "Panic spread throughout the city. The local churches were crammed full to bursting. People began to confess their sins. Men told their wives about past adulteries… .

I've never not learnt something by stepping back from my reflexive reactions and listening to Sam.

Characteristically nuanced and thoughtful analysis from Sam.

The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is tremendous. Strong recommend. (Just interviewed her for Across The Pond. Out next week. She also talks a very good book.)

The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is tremendous. Strong recommend. (Just interviewed her for Across The Pond. Out next week. She also talks a very good book.)

Our latest episode is a fascinating conversation with Megan Hunter about faith, fiction and her very unusual new novel Days Of Light: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

Loved that book so much

Our latest episode is a fascinating conversation with Megan Hunter about faith, fiction and her very unusual new novel Days Of Light: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

This is tremendous, not least for "Orson Welles and friends are camping it up something chronic", a turn of phrase we once used all the time but which is rare now. Something chronic. Lovely.

The true story about the fake news relating to the broadcast of The War Of The Worlds. (This is part one. Part two gets fully wild.) open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/h...