If Rumors Were Horses

Against the Grain V35#4 Whew, we have a lot going on in library and publishing land!  Read on for this installment of “Rumors!”  People A big thank you to Sven Fund for helping to plan and organize the event at Frankfurt mentioned above.  Sven is also...

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9-15-23 Attention!!  Let’s start writing  about libraries everywhere – not just the US but Canada, the UK, France, Italy, China, Etc., Etc. Send suggestions – editors@charleston-hub.com A growing number of bookstore/bars offer literature and wines by the...

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8-18-23 Jane Friedman Five books for sale on Amazon were removed after author Jane Friedman complained that the titles were falsely listed as being written by her. The books, which Friedman believes were written by AI, were also listed on the Amazon-owned reviews site...

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8-11-23 Have you ever thought of writing a novel? Well, a judge’s novel has caused some drama in a courtroom. U.S.  bankruptcy judge, Stacey Jernigan writes legal thrillers with biotech companies, crooked financiers, and Mexican cartels. Her latest is Hedging...

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8-4-23 Just heard from the charmingly peripatetic Anthony Watkinson. He and his wife Sarah and his daughter Ruth and her husband and their two children and their dogs have just spent the day at the Northumberland County show. Thousands of others (many of them farmers)...

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7-28-23 Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Excited to report that the vivacious Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor and Coordinator for Research and Teaching Professional Development has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Professional Publishing (SSP)....

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7-14-23 Karen Christensen Isn’t Karen Christensen great! She does a fortnightly newsletter and the latest one caught my eye. It’s about T.S. Eliot’s typewriter and desk and introduces “analog thinking for the way we live now”. Eliot died in 1965 back before manual...