British authors and illustrators of colour are consistently under-represented in the publishing industry, according to the findings of a groundbreaking new report, released today.
Self-publishing powerhouse Wattpad expands its footprint in the Philippines: it’s launching a new YA and romance book publishing imprint, Bliss Books, with Anvil Publishing.
RT @MinoritiesinPub This is becoming a trend in publishing sadly… After years of trying to remake the former BE 100s company that launched such brands as Ebony and Jet magazines, Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Co. files for bankruptcy, succumbing to financial challenges and failure to find new funding sources.
Machine learning is the new centre of tech, and like all big new things
there are issues. ‘AI bias’ is much-discussed right now: machine learning
finds patterns but sometimes it finds the wrong one, and it can be hard to
tell. This is a real concern, but it’s also manageable as long as we pay
proper attention to it, and will probably look much like similar issues in
previous waves of automation.
RT @MinoritiesinPub Calling all women and nonbinary #writersofcolor! You know that wonderful/amazing/inspiring manuscript you’ve been working on? Submit to the Feminist Press for a $5,000 advance and #publication by FP.
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