Happy Thursday!

Happy belated International Women's Day to all the amazing women readers of our newsletter and beyond!!

Today's Chapters:

• 📚A Women's History Month Tribute to Toni Morrison and her book list

• 📙 AI Authors Infiltrate Amazon

• 📖 Spotlight: Daisy Jones and the Six TV Show

Let’s get started!

Shelf:

Very few people are more synonymous with the word "writer" than this beloved figure. Even more than a writer, her words have trail-blazed for women, African Americans and all of the people that have looked up to her.

This week, we are giving our flowers to the one and only Toni Morrison.

We celebrate her life, legacy and share a list of Seven books of hers!

Check it out below and let us know your favorite Toni Morrison book!

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What if I told you, your son/daughters favorite children's book was written by an AI author?

Well, chances are in the coming months this could be the case!

Amazon as well as other publishers have seen a significant increase in books inquired (used in publishing for books submitted to literary agents for traditional publishing) and self published on their platforms.

One company, Clarkesworld Magazine even had to shut down its Sci-Fi submission process as AI written pieces were outnumbering human written submissions (over 500 articles submitted were ban in February 2023 along).

Here's a link to a graph from Clarkesworld of the amount of submissions bans comparing 2019 to now* - https://twitter.com/clarkesworld/status/1627837671069417472

If you are unfamiliar with ChatGPT it's an AI writing Assistant that can spit out practically anything you ask it within seconds. The product by OpenAI has been such a hit, it has over 100 Million users in 2 months!

Here's an example of ChatGPT writing a Christmas Book List for us - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/45W7TbGzP-4

Some schools are even outlawing it in their classrooms (sorry Jimmy YOU will still have to write that Shakespeare essay 😆)

It is a powerful and helpful tool but the ramifications of its power brings up a fundamental question, "what is considered fair play with these powers and what is considered scheme-y behavior?"

Regardless of what your personal opinion is, we would suggest you at least test it out to see how insane the future will be with tools like these just on the horizon.

This NY Post post below highlights all the craze with ebook AI publishing on Amazon.

Book:

The reviews are in!

The first three episodes of the book turned TV series Daisy Jones and the Six are out on Prime Video.

So far the series has done a great jobs of keeping to the spirit of the book and even giving the book's music a real life soundtrack you can listen to while driving or re-reading the book!

With any adaption there will be some modifications and we break those down as well in our recent article about what you need to know about the adaptation.

Look forward to seeing how the series continues to develop as a new set of episodes drop tomorrow!

Full article here -

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Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading):

Alternative Perspective of article from two week's ago: Gov. Ron DeSantis: Florida banning books is a ‘nasty’ hoax https://www.fox13news.com/news/gov-ron-desantis-florida-banning-books-is-a-nasty-hoax

Barnes & Noble Plans to Open 30 New Stores for the First Time in Years - https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161295820/how-barnes-noble-turned-a-page-expanding-for-the-first-time-in-years

Booktuber Jack Edwards Faces Backlash from His Subscription Members - https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/11bq55b/warning_about_jack_edwards_subscription_its_a_scam/?sort=new

‘Goosebumps’ author R.L. Stine Says Publisher Made ‘woke’ edits Behind his Back - https://nypost.com/2023/03/08/r-l-stine-was-not-told-about-woke-edits-to-his-books/