Adventures in Publishing-land: Memoir Myths, Broken Publisher PR Promises and Ethics in Agency

On this episode of AIPL, there isn't even a mention of AI! Instead, we talk about how a recent change to Agent ethics guidelines in the US are questionable at best, discuss how publisher's PR promises are often empty (and whether anything could be done to stop that), and dive into a debate about whether memoirs should be fact-checked or should be left to be almost fictional in some cases...

00:00 Intro

01:06 From the Slush Pile - Listener Comments

11:03 Pay to Play? US Agents Ethics Row

18:35 Marketing Myths - Publishing's Empty Promises

27:33 Memoir or Myth - Does Truth Matter?

43:32 Stranger Than Fiction - Nadine's Idea Factory

50:20 The Final Chapter - Entertainment Catch-up

Links:

DGB resign from the Association of American Literary Agents

Who holds publishers to their promises?

Earl Spencer apologises to Piers Morgan for error in memoir

Fact checking doesn't apply to memoirs, says ex-Bloomsbury boss

What happened in the failed execution of Christa Pike?

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