Indie Author Fringe Close: Orna Ross

In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Member Q&A podcast, hosts Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black discuss whether it's acceptable and safe for an author to use AI in place of a $2,000 line edit, and where to draw the line between supplementing a human editor and replacing one.

As summer comes to an end, thoughts for many of us as readers and writers turn to “spooky season.” But what if you just can’t wait till the evenings really draw in (or indeed out in the Southern Hemisphere) to get your fangs stuck into some ghoulish books? Well, it seems that the latest trend on BookTok is just for you. “Summerween” is a portmanteau named (apparently) for an episode of the animated series Gravity Falls.

On this week's Self-Publishing News podcast, ALLi News Editor Dan Holloway reports on the collapse of Self-Publishing Partnership, a UK-based service provider that ceased trading at the end of June, leaving authors waiting on royalties and raising questions about why no administrators were brought in. The Society of Authors has launched a campaign to help affected members recover what they're owed. Then Dan turns to Anthropic's announcement that it will watermark all text generated by Claude — a move driven in part by the EU's AI Act, and one that could eventually help platforms like Amazon identify AI-generated books.