Sam Jordison
@samjordison.bsky.social
Mad as hell. Not going to take it any more. Journalist. Galley Beggar. 3AM Magazine Anti-Royal Correspondent.
Across The Pond podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/
Galley Beggar: www.galleybeggar.co.uk
Across The Pond podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/
Galley Beggar: www.galleybeggar.co.uk
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Did AI write this?
AI will reshape publishing jobs, from editorial and production to marketing, sales and operations. The question is not whether this happens, but who shapes these changes, says Bec Evans 👇 #BookSky
Knowledge is power
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November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Did AI write this?
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The first - splendid! - reviews of Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia have started arriving:
Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia
Review by Victoria Best
The telenovela is a uniquely Latin American creation. It began as the radionovela, a drama told in episodes of 15 minutes that was broadcast during the daytime as enter
shinynewbooks.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The first - splendid! - reviews of Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia have started arriving:
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A special episode! An interview with Sarah Hall about her splendid new novel Helm: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Amazing facts about this unique - hurricane force! - wind and the inspiration it provided for Sarah.
125. Sarah Hall, "Helm" - Across the Pond
The wonderful writer Sarah Hall returns to the podcast, this time to talk about her latest novel Helm, in which the Helm Wind of Cumbria, England's Eden Valley has her own puckish point of view about ...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A special episode! An interview with Sarah Hall about her splendid new novel Helm: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Amazing facts about this unique - hurricane force! - wind and the inspiration it provided for Sarah.
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All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles JUST WON best audiobook fiction at The Speakies! This is delightful! So pleased for @markabowles.bsky.social , @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social , wonderful reader Paul Hilton. And for us! www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...
Best Audiobook: Fiction Shortlist | The British Audio Awards
The shortlist for the Best Audiobook: Fiction category at The British Audio Awards 2025
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November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles JUST WON best audiobook fiction at The Speakies! This is delightful! So pleased for @markabowles.bsky.social , @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social , wonderful reader Paul Hilton. And for us! www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...
A new Links,Tips and Suggestions. News about counter culture, warm words about David Szalay, less warm words about Sensitivity Readers open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/l...
Links, tips, suggestions
Book recommendations for December, news about counter culture, revisiting Oral Sadism and The Vegetarian Personality, warm words about David Szalay, less warm words about Sensitivity Readers
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November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A new Links,Tips and Suggestions. News about counter culture, warm words about David Szalay, less warm words about Sensitivity Readers open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/l...
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A very generous and flattering profile of our press from the excellent Will Dady at @renardpress.com and in association with the splendid @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social : www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/articles/sam... I spoke - at great length! - and he very kindly and patiently took it all down...
www.spiracleaudiobooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A very generous and flattering profile of our press from the excellent Will Dady at @renardpress.com and in association with the splendid @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social : www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/articles/sam... I spoke - at great length! - and he very kindly and patiently took it all down...
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This is wonderful!
Today’s damned soul is author Gonzalo C. Garcia!
As well as the 5 tracks he will meet in Hell, Gonzalo told us about his @galleybeggars.bsky.social book ‘Telenovela’, set in Chile during the last days of dictatorship.
Listen podfollow.com/hellish
Pre-order Telenovela tinyurl.com/galleynovela
As well as the 5 tracks he will meet in Hell, Gonzalo told us about his @galleybeggars.bsky.social book ‘Telenovela’, set in Chile during the last days of dictatorship.
Listen podfollow.com/hellish
Pre-order Telenovela tinyurl.com/galleynovela
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is wonderful!
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@galleybeggars.bsky.social
Look at this for cheering up a wet day in Belfast. Cannot wait to read. You never disappoint with your care for writers, books and readers Galley Beggar Press ❤️
Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia
Look at this for cheering up a wet day in Belfast. Cannot wait to read. You never disappoint with your care for writers, books and readers Galley Beggar Press ❤️
Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
Look at this for cheering up a wet day in Belfast. Cannot wait to read. You never disappoint with your care for writers, books and readers Galley Beggar Press ❤️
Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia
Look at this for cheering up a wet day in Belfast. Cannot wait to read. You never disappoint with your care for writers, books and readers Galley Beggar Press ❤️
Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia
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New mail and current desk situation @galleybeggars.bsky.social (I got the book, thank you!)
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
New mail and current desk situation @galleybeggars.bsky.social (I got the book, thank you!)
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Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
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Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Prize — Galley Beggar Press
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November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
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Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
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Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...
Bookbanks
A good deed in a weary world
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October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...
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(We will also be very if you could share with your writer friends here - we're no longer active on other social media, so it would be wonderful if the message can be shared far and wide, here at Bluesky. Thank you so much!)
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
(We will also be very if you could share with your writer friends here - we're no longer active on other social media, so it would be wonderful if the message can be shared far and wide, here at Bluesky. Thank you so much!)
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I talked to @timrelf.bsky.social about my forthcoming novel, TIME BEING, for @saltpublishing.com's House Magazine. Out September 2026, folks. www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...
Jude Cook discusses his new novel, Time Being
by Tim Relf With the countdown on to publication of Jude Cook’s ‘existential’ literary thriller, Time Being, House catches up with the acclaimed author to find out what makes him tick 1. Tell us a lit...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I talked to @timrelf.bsky.social about my forthcoming novel, TIME BEING, for @saltpublishing.com's House Magazine. Out September 2026, folks. www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...
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How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
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Chris Kraus! Talking about her scorching new novel The Four Spent The Day Together, alongside thoughts on how feminism should work, how social media doesn't - and more.
www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...
122. Chris Kraus, "The Four Spent the Day Together" - Across the Pond
Chris Kraus is our guest as we explore her new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a riviting account of a murder in rural Minnesota that complements a novelistic reflection of Kraus's own childhoo...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Chris Kraus! Talking about her scorching new novel The Four Spent The Day Together, alongside thoughts on how feminism should work, how social media doesn't - and more.
www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...
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Writers please spread far and wide. Six of my books were scraped by Meta (and the situation is much worse for many others). This cannot put right the past but it does enable readers to support publishers who value the work of actual writers. Thanks so much to those who have worked on this.
Info on Books By People here: booksbypeople.org
Books By People | Defending Organic Literature in an AI world
Books by People's mission is to safeguard human creativity in modern literature by helping publishers and authors to certify their books as human-authored, with a process readers can trust.
booksbypeople.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Writers please spread far and wide. Six of my books were scraped by Meta (and the situation is much worse for many others). This cannot put right the past but it does enable readers to support publishers who value the work of actual writers. Thanks so much to those who have worked on this.
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The fact that our next book Telenovela is going to carry a Books By People stamp certifying that it is AI-free has also now been reported around the world in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: Identity Stamps
Two new startups, Books by People and Amlet, aim to certify a book’s authenticity in the AI era
www.publishersweekly.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The fact that our next book Telenovela is going to carry a Books By People stamp certifying that it is AI-free has also now been reported around the world in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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And please! If you want to support us - and get a wonderful book - we're taking pre-orders: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sh...
Waterstones too: www.waterstones.com/book/telenov...
And bookshop.org : uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tele...
Or your local bookshop.
Waterstones too: www.waterstones.com/book/telenov...
And bookshop.org : uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tele...
Or your local bookshop.
TELENOVELA — Galley Beggar Press
This is a pre-order . Telenovela will be shipped on publication, in November 2025. All pre-orders will be signed first editions, and come with a book mark and three limited edition postcards. RE...
www.galleybeggar.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
And please! If you want to support us - and get a wonderful book - we're taking pre-orders: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sh...
Waterstones too: www.waterstones.com/book/telenov...
And bookshop.org : uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tele...
Or your local bookshop.
Waterstones too: www.waterstones.com/book/telenov...
And bookshop.org : uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tele...
Or your local bookshop.
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We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books
UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.
www.thebookseller.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
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Latest in tech-pessimism: On my podcast, The Ned Ludd Radio Hour, I spoke to James Marriott and @samjordison.bsky.social about why literacy is declining and whether there's anything that can be done about it.
The Death of the Authors
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October 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Latest in tech-pessimism: On my podcast, The Ned Ludd Radio Hour, I spoke to James Marriott and @samjordison.bsky.social about why literacy is declining and whether there's anything that can be done about it.
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Had a fascinating conversation with I Love Dick author Chris Kraus on Across The Pond: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Her new novel is a terrifying vision of America. She explains why here, alongside the kind of trenchant thoughts you’d expect on social media, feminism, the monsters in power…
122. Chris Kraus, "The Four Spent the Day Together" - Across the Pond
Chris Kraus is our guest as we explore her new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a riviting account of a murder in rural Minnesota that complements a novelistic reflection of Kraus's own childhoo...
www.buzzsprout.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Had a fascinating conversation with I Love Dick author Chris Kraus on Across The Pond: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Her new novel is a terrifying vision of America. She explains why here, alongside the kind of trenchant thoughts you’d expect on social media, feminism, the monsters in power…