alchemy_books_and_editing

19/04/2025

Wonderful idea ... Canberra, Bowral/Soutgern Highlands - we are missing out!!

12/04/2025

27/07/2023

27/07/2023

🏙 This incredible novel inspired Candace Bushnell to write S*x and the City, the modern-day version of The Group 🏙

Even though it was considered controversial at the time of publication in 1963, its exploration of contraception, marriage, s*x, women's careers and mental health are still extremely relevant today.

Our 60th anniversary edition of The Group by Mary McCarthy is out 3rd August 2023.

23/06/2023

20/05/2023

Our kind of yoga! 🧘‍♀️📖

11/05/2023

The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has named Tim Winton the recipient of the 2023 Lloyd O’Neil Award, which honours outstanding service to the Australian book industry.

11/05/2023

For all my editing friends ...

06/05/2023

A wonderful institution in London

Today is our 182nd birthday! 🎉

in 1841 we opened our doors for the very first time, housing around 3,000 books. Almost 200 years later, we hold around a million volumes and continue adding around 6,000 new ones every year!

Thousands of members have enjoyed our historic building and community in the heart of London, which has become a centre for creativity and inspiration.

22/04/2023

The fun of this event is keeping everyone—including yourself!—in suspense until it’s time for the grand reveal.

18/04/2023

Artificial intelligence has become a hot topic with the rise in new automation programs, like Midjourney and ChatGPT, which enable users to generate creative work at the click of a button. Is this a fun tool? A threat to creators’ livelihoods? A breakthrough in synthesizing data? What do you need to know? While there is much yet to be understood about this evolving technology, what’s clear is that AI presents complications on a range of fronts, from copyright ownership to the very idea of originality and creativity.

We’ve canvassed some concerns of authors’ groups, publishers and artists around the world about the impact this technology may have on the creative industries, to get you up to speed with the current conversations about artificial intelligence.

https://www.asauthors.org/news/artificial-intelligence-what-do-you-need-to-know