Who Owns Your ideas?

In Publishing News this week. Calling all writers who have been caught up in the Anthropic AI mess. The lawyers in the legal case against Anthropic want your name for a class action. If you have had books pirated, this is your must read article from Publishers Weekly. Act quickly you don’t have…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/08/who-owns-your-ideas.html

#AIcourtcases #GabrielaPereira #jamesscottbell #joannapenn #KMWeiland
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Advice Podcast: How Indie Authors Can Approach Poetry and Short Fiction with Purpose and Freedom

On the Self-Publishing with ALLi Podcast, Orna Ross and Joanna Penn talk about the creative process behind poetry and short fiction. They reflect on how they decide what form a piece should take, how emotion and memory shape their work,…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-poetry-and-short-fiction/

#Podcast #indieauthors #JoannaPenn #OrnaRoss #poetryandshortfiction
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Can You Trust The Source?

In Publishing News this week, I’m a day late this week in publishing the blog. As I was putting it together, I heard that Stephen Colbert’s show is being axed. Many in the media are dismayed with the defunding of public journalism PBS and NPR this week. The Colbert show axing coming on the heels…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/07/can-you-trust-source.html

#jamesscottbell #joannapenn #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt #NotebookLM
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The Courage To Be Creative

In Publishing News this week, A new press has launched reports The Guardian. Conduit books seek to only publish books by men as they are being “overlooked with the perception that the male voice is problematic.” The founder hopes the press will help to change the narrative that boys and men…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/05/the-courage-to-be-creative.html

#DonaldMaass #Emilyenger #joannapenn #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt
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Speaking Up for Reading

In Publishing News This Week Another week, another news story on the Institute of Museum and Library Services, this time it’s an open letter to Harper Collins. Everyone else has made the campaign to save the Institute a priority- why haven’t they? In the UK, a new survey on reading finds…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/04/speaking-up-for-reading.html

#annerallen #audio #beccapuglisi #danblank #joannapenn
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