Our latest episode is out now. Featuring a fascinating conversation with Brad Fox about his year in the Peruvian jungle under the direction of a local traditional medicine healer: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi... Features glad tidings about this beauty:

Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

This week Lori and Sam talk to Anbara Salam about her Halloween-appropriate novel, The Salvage. Scotland! Hauntings! Ship wrecks! www.buzzsprout.com/1728150

Chris Kraus! Talking about her scorching new novel The Four Spent The Day Together, alongside thoughts on how feminism should work, how social media doesn't - and more. www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

The fact that our next book Telenovela is going to carry a Books By People stamp certifying that it is AI-free has also now been reported around the world in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

And please! If you want to support us - and get a wonderful book - we're taking pre-orders: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sh... Waterstones too: www.waterstones.com/book/telenov... And bookshop.org : uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tele... Or your local bookshop.

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense: www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Latest in tech-pessimism: On my podcast, The Ned Ludd Radio Hour, I spoke to James Marriott and @samjordison.bsky.social about why literacy is declining and whether there's anything that can be done about it.

Had a fascinating conversation with I Love Dick author Chris Kraus on Across The Pond: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Her new novel is a terrifying vision of America. She explains why here, alongside the kind of trenchant thoughts you’d expect on social media, feminism, the monsters in power…

Chris Kraus! Talking about her scorching new novel The Four Spent The Day Together, alongside thoughts on how feminism should work, how social media doesn't - 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...

We spoke to Lily King about her new novel Heart The Lover, which is, among other things, a reminder of some of the good that happens in the USA: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

@somanydamnbooks.bsky.social @literaryfriction.bsky.social @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social #Podcasts #readerscommunity #reading #literary

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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...

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.