Yes, and to offer money (or not) based on that assessment

I feel like it’s less of a risk or a thing in sff but that’s a whole discussion!

I truly don’t know. The agents in the article talk about contract language, but there is nothing physically stopping someone from doing it anyway (and you’d have an uphill legal battle to prove it even if they were accused or caught)

FWIW agents are trying and very much on the author side for the most part!

Not an option for me but very much understand the sentiment!

I was thinking this too… I wonder if it’s actually because they’re asking ChatGPT to do an analysis of its saleability or something

This exactly this. If they weren’t so burnout it wouldn’t even be on the table

Partial screenshot because I don’t want to post the whole article (booker isn’t keen which is fair!)

Totally agree!

But ofc if you’re a debut you simply cannot sell in proposal so.,. Yeah

If this is the future of going on submission, I only want to sell on proposal 💀

Ty kindly!

Ty hugely ❤️

I got very lucky! Grateful though 🤣

Ty kindly RJ ❤️

BBC presenter Sara cox holding up a copy of THE GIRL WITH A THOUSAND FACES

Just had to screenshot Sara Cox holding my book 😅😭

GWATF is a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick this spring 🤯 it’s a huge honour to be in such brilliant company (yesteryear is actually top of my pile to read atm!)

Text reads “me after i feel a warm breeze:” above hands holding Platform Decay by Martha Wells, showing a sci-fi cover with an astronaut floating in space inside a futuristic structure.

Text reads “me after i feel a warm breeze:” above hands holding Seek the Traitor’s Son by Veronica Roth, featuring a glowing figure standing in water against a dark blue background.

Text reads “me after i feel a warm breeze:” above hands holding Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim, with a bold pink-to-orange gradient cover and repeated mirrored silhouettes of a walking person.

Text reads “me after i feel a warm breeze:” above hands holding The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean, featuring an illustrated woman’s face surrounded by flowing gold and dark patterns.

spring reads are loading...✨🌼🌷

Joining Luxcon this year is Sunyi Dean, author of The Book-Eaters and The Girl With a Thousand Faces, and co-host of the Publishing Rodeo podcast.
Curious about how the publishing industry really works? Mark your calendar for April 18th & 19th to catch her insider insights.

It’s gonna be super fun to catch you all!

So excited for cymera!

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Coming soon… Summer of 2026!

Scott will be flying solo on a serious project, while I’ll be teaming up with Richard Swan on a hilarious (to us anyway) new pod. Stay tuned 🤓

Ty kindly! They did an amazing job x

Ty kindly!

Love my cover and the artist who did it! Huge shout out to Lindsey Carr who does fantastic work. And also to Tor for their artistic direction. I would absolutely get it as a wall painting!

Say hello to the judges behind The Broken Binding Prize - a bespoke new award giving one YA sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction writer a publishing contract, a £10,000 advance, and a chance to talk representation with Stevie Finegan of the @zenoagency.bsky.social 📖

Tor snares The Shape of Monsters and a sequel by CL Hellisen Tor UK, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, has acquired The Shape of Monsters and A Million Points of Light by author CL Hellisen.

THE SECRET I HAVE BEEN (BADLY) SITTING ON IS NO LONGER A SECRET

Tor UK have bought the print rights for my Audible Originals The Shape of Monsters and A Million Points of Light!

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Beautiful x

The mistake was definitely mine! My spreadsheet :)

It’s a bit different for Michael as many of his books were picked up from self pub first (but everyone also has a diff experience of production)

Oh no!

Not sure if you’re asking him or me but I had multiple dev edits and two copy edit passes, and two pass pages.