Something for the weekend. A thread with few #tips on #rejection :

Rejection is wired into the creative process and longevity and success is mostly down to how you deal with this one issue.
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#writing #publishing #literaryagent #WritingCommmunity

No 9!

Huge congratulations to Madhumita Murgia on entering the Times bestseller list today with CODE DEPENDENT, her incisive analysis of the human cost of AI.

A big hurrah also to everyone at Picador UK, notably Ravi Mirchandani, Siobhan Slattery and Emma Bravo.

My news. Very sad to be leaving Picador; excited to be joining Summit/Simon & Schuster

My new book is real and out on 11 April. Preorders make a big difference to authors so if it grabs you please consider getting in early via the links below.
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This is both heartbreaking & maddening.
The creative industries account for more than £100bn to UK economy, 15.9% of all UK service exports.; there is more production space here than anywhere in world outside of Hollywood. RT if agree!
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Over weeks of speaking to current & former employees, analysts, critics and competitors, Financial Times⁩’s account of what is holding Google back from capitalising on generative AI, an area it was primed to dominate. Today’s Big Read w/⁦⁦RichardWaters⁩ on.ft.com/3TJbZmB

“…CODE DEPENDENT is the NO LOGO of the 2020s. Whereas Naomi Klein warned against big corporations and consumerism, Murgia’s deep concern is for the global precariat whose invisible labour and data-logged lives feed the hungry US AI machines”.

Book of the Week in Times today

“A chilling and essential read about AI and the way it imports and exacerbates existing social inequalities.” ~ Professor Nicola Rollock

Absolutely thrilled that Madhumita Murgia’s CODE-DEPENDENT has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction!

Hurrah to Madhumita Murgia and Picador on a double triumph: a wonderful book launch tonight at Waterstones Trafalgar Square for CODE DEPENDENT, and the additional joy of launching off the back of shortlisting for the Women’s Prize for Non Fiction

Congratulations Madhumita Murgia !

“The scope of Murgia’s reporting here, reflective of her day job, is vast”.

“Murgia also argues that we are seeing the emergence of a new data colonialism”.

Book of the Day in the Guardian for Madhumita Murgia’s CODE DEPENDENT, just published by Picador.

A joy to be twinned with Chetna, whose book I loved. Thanks to Ravi Mirchandani for helping bring my book into the world, and introducing me to Chetna’s!

Longlist for the wonderful #WomensPrize for Fiction - and Chetna Maroo's hauntingly beautiful WESTERN LANE is one of these sixteen novels✨😍🎉

“There’s nothing like a long plane journey to rediscover the joys of reading an entire book in one sitting and I have just had that pleasure, understanding the dangers of where AI might take us”…

Anne Sebba in the Guardian on Madhumita Murgia’s CODE DEPENDENT, out 21st March

And huge congrats to #ChetnaMaroo for the #WomensPrize longlisting of Booker-shortlisted #WesternLane ! Ravi Mirchandani Picador Books Women's Prize

Utterly delighted that Madhumita Murgia’s forthcoming first book, CODE DEPENDENT, has been longlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

Huge congrats to Madhumita Murgia, to Ravi Mirchandani and everyone at Picador UK, and thanks to Women's Prize

Out March 28th.

Seconded!

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I reviewed Philip Ball’s astonishing new book for the Sunday Times ⁦Times Books⁩

This means SO much coming from you Daniel Hugill Bravo indeed to @jameshynes Picador Books Ravi Mirchandani

Madhumita Murgia’s front page scoop in the FT today: Universal Music and Google in talks about licensing the voices and music of their artists, so Google users can make their own AI-generated music in the style of Taylor Swift or Elvis singing, eg, a famous Drake song, using AI.