"[A]ctress, activist, and #NewYorkTimes bestselling #author #AnnabelleGurwitch[...] debuts her #memoir, The End of My Life is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker. The #book has received extensive advance praise, including the coveted Buzz #Books distinction as one of the most buzz-worthy releases of the season."

"Born out of a stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis, Annabelle describes her memoir as “…the book I didn’t think I’d live long enough to write.” New York Times bestselling author Will Schwalbe calls the book “…a Trojan Horse of sorts: a hysterically funny page-turner that is packed throughout with practical advice and timeless wisdom.”

"Annabelle’s title and witty charm had me hooked immediately. I was eager to learn more, in this first installment of my new series highlighting #Jewish #authors as they #publish new work. (Because if you haven’t noticed, there’s never been a better time to support the Jewish community.)"

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-author-spotlight-annabelle-gurwitch-the-end-of-my-life-is-killing-me/

#quarto #science #publish #pandoc

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc. Quarto documents are authored using Markdown, an easy to write plain text format.

Quarto includes:

- Embedding code and output from Python, R, Julia, and JavaScript via integration with Jupyter, Knitr, and Observable.

- A variety of extensions to Pandoc Markdown useful for technical writing including cross-references, sub-figures, layout panels, hoverable citations and footnotes, callouts, and more.

- A project system for rendering groups of documents at once, sharing options across documents, and producing aggregate output like websites and books.

- Authoring using a wide variety of editors and notebooks including JupyterLab, RStudio, and VS Code.

- A visual Markdown editor that provides a productive writing interface for composing long-form documents.

Learn more about Quarto at https://quarto.org.

https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/

"[T]he arrival of LLMs does not appear to have displaced activity by incumbent authors... [T]here is a separate question of whether AI facilitates the creation of content that would be well-regarded by critics or other cultural elites... [T]he absence of an effect at the top suggests a limit to how much LLMs can help with elite cultural production." (Imke Reimers & Joel Waldfogel 2026)

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34777/w34777.pdf

#llm #ai #author #creativity #writing #publish #books #literature

Do Medium Pubs Enhance Relationships?

The Medium forum gives writers the option to submit their work to a "publication" (or "pub"). Supposedly, the pub has ability to find readers.

Does this work?

Here is my experience:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=23&id=432

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#publisher #publish #medium

"#HarperCollins #Australia will #publish Conversations with My #Rabbi: Timeless Teachings for a Fractured World, based on conversations between Rabbi #EliSchlanger and #author #NikkiGoldstein recorded before #Schlanger was killed in the #BondiBeach #terrorattack.

The book will be published simultaneously on May 26 in the #US, #UK and Australia.

Schlanger, assistant rabbi at #Chabad of #Bondi for 18 years, was killed on December 14, 2025 along with 14 others as terrorists attacked the annual #Chanukah by the Sea celebration at Bondi Beach.

#Goldstein first met Schlanger in September 2022 when she was gravely ill with pneumonia in a #Sydney ICU. Her daughter spotted Schlanger in the hallway and asked him to come pray for her.

“Standing beside her bed, he blew the #shofar and whispered ancient prayers over Nikki’s comatose body,” the publisher said. “One day later, Nikki began recovering from the life-threatening infection. The doctors called it a miracle.”

https://www.australianjewishnews.com/forthcoming-book-features-conversations-with-rabbi-eli-schlanger/

#Iranian #hackers vow to #publish alleged #videos of #DonaldTrump with #minors within the next couple of hours

https://x.com/i/status/2027704143368925489