Newsletter: May 2025 Edition
AI Intellectual Property Theft, Loss of Funding for the Arts, My Latest Book Starman After Midnight, and More
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Welcome to the May 2025 edition of my newsletter. What a wild past few months it’s been in the publishing and writer worlds. AI is still on the loose absorbing copyrighted works and spitting out gibberish including in a published summer reading list in a major city newspaper of books that don’t exist. A conventionally attractive white dude lands a two-book publishing deal for books he hasn’t written yet, simply because he’s kind of handsome and confesses in public that he likes to read; angry, hardworking authors are losing their minds. And to top it all off, the orange-goblin administration is tearing away funding from the arts through claw backs from NEH, NEA, and more. It’s common knowledge that all great societies have a flourishing art scene. What’s fueling this attempt to destroy creative culture in the U.S.? Greed and tax-cuts for the rich.
