‘Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad’ (my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)

We were incredibly excited to learn that Cornwall In Short has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards 2025! Congratulations to all our amazing authors! The award ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th. buff.ly/OQcmmtv

The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds. Trans women are women.

Petition nearly at 10,000 signatures. Sign it, write to your MP, and - if you can - get to the protest at 1pm King’s Cross today. Meta stole my books and all my mates’ and we are PISSED OFF.

You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing

Open letter in response to Meta's use of pirated material to train its AI. Authors, writers, creatives, please sign & share! forms.gle/1qebKTV6o7Au...

Cornish Short Stories came up in The Atlantic’s LibGen search tool when I searched the editors’ names, which means it may be one of the texts used to train Meta’s LLM. I can’t speak for the other writers whose work appears in that anthology but personally, I’m fuming.

This is further proof that AI companies are free-riding on the work of authors, which makes effective legal regulation that gives creators proper transparency and control all the more urgent. We're working with our partners in the creative sector to urgently make this case to the Government.

Oh, is it annoying when someone uses your work to train their AI model without asking your permission???

Pleased as punch to have a spooky little story in here!

Maybe this is the microblogging platform that will finally not be terrible?