Author Notes #14 (November 2024)

Reading lists for MPs, the lessening impact of mainstream media, dystopia on the rise, publishing agreements with AI companies, and a children's reading crisis.

So much has been happening in the industry over the last month I hardly know where to start. But here we go!

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A reading list for MPs about the crisis in the Middle East
A group of high-profile Australian authors have put their names behind an initiative to give each of our 227 Australian MPs and Senators five books to read over Christmas, with the aim of…