RBmedia Acquires Award-Winning U.K. Indie Boldwood Books - Publishing Perspectives

This smoke is giving me a headache.

Panzer's next stop in the Catosphere was at the Publishing Perspectives site. There our inquisitive kitty boy found a post about U.K. publisher Boldwood.

 

According to the post RBmedia has acquired Boldwood. RBedia is an audiobook publisher and Boldwood is an ebook, print book and audiobook publisher.

 

Panzer says, "Sounds like they'll fit right together."

 

Note: This is a medium length post. Bring a glass of iced tea and a muffin for today's snack.

 

To read the post tootle over to RBMedia 

Why is Anthropic destroying books? - The Guardian

 

It's a mystery to me.

There are no fires near us. But smoke from the fires on the other side of the mountains are causing hazardous air conditions here. That means we're all coughing, sneezing and feeling rotten. Today's posts are a little hurried and may have spelling etc. mistakes.

 

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Panzer's first stop in the Catosphere today was at The Guardian site. 

 

There's a post there that explains Anthropic's efforts to train the LLM Claude using authors' books. The post includes several links to other information about Anthropic.

  

Panzer says, "You'll need to read the post to understand what Anthropic did."

 

Note:This is a very long post.  You'll need to decide what to you want to snack on.

 

To read the post tootle over to Anthropic   

After the Cancellation of 'Call Me, I'll Hide the Body,' What Comes Next? - Publishers Daily

Can he prove he didn't do it?

Panzer made a stop at the Publishers Daily site today. With no digging at all he found a post about a new manuscript with AI help suspicions problems.

 

The post describes the problems an author has encountered with his agents and publishers because his manuscript didn't pass an AI detecter test. The publishers cancelled his book publications and his agents fired him as a client.

 

Panzer says, "This little kitty never heard of the AI sniffer they used, but he's heard originality.ai is good." 

 

Note: This is a very long post. You'll need to decide what you want to snack on. 

 

To read the post tootle over to Publishing Cancellation 

DASHIELL HAMMETT PRIZE FINALISTS: International Association of Crime Writers - Mystery Fanfare

There are so many prizes and awards for mystery writers

Here's a short post listing the finalists for the Dashell Hammett Prize Panzer found on the Mystery Fanfare site.

 

This is such a short post you wont need anything to snack on.

 

To read the finalists list tootle over to  DASHIELL HAMMETT PRIZE FINALISTS:

Killer Nashville Magazine August-September Issue

Combined issue.

On today's stop at the Killer Nashville Magazine site Panzer discovered some of the the features and fiction from the August-September paid version are available online.

 

The link below will take you to theTable of Contents for the paid version. You can click the titles highlighted in red and read that feature, but anything highlighted in white is not a link and won't work. Red features are found in Cover Story, Craft Articles and scrolling down in the Short Stories sections of the TOC.

 

To read the sneak peak tootle over to Killer Nashville Magazine

A Panzerism

 Panzer on errors:

 

Cats are never wrong

 

Never.

They may be temporarily intellectually challenged, but they are never wrong. 

 

Ever.

 

Got it?

 

Good.

 

 

 

 

*From Cat Wisdom for humans 

Jigsaw Puzzle: It's too high. I can't smell it.

Hint

Here's today's puzzle.

 

At the puzzle site when you click the square in the lower left corner you'll see the finished puzzle.

 

Have fun!

 

To do the puzzle tootle over to Black Cat Jigsaw Puzzle

Free to Watch Classic Crime Noir Movie: Ink Against Power

Tomorrow is another day.

Panzer found this crime drama movie on the Aleda Music channel on Youtube.

 

This black and white 1952 film noir is 1 hour 25 minutes long.

 

Make a pizza, get your beverage of choice and enjoy the movie.

 

To watch the movie tootle over to Ink Against Power 

Free to Listen Grumpy meets Snarky Romance Audiobook: Applied Pressure

Told you I'd be right back.

Here's a Grumpy romance Panzer found on the author's channel on Youtube.

 

Applied Pressure is written by Lainey Davis. It's 5 hours 57 minutes long.

 

To listen to the audiobook tootle over to Grumpy Romance

Free to Listen Old Time Radio: The Black Halo

I'll be back in a few minutes.

Here's a classic radio mystery Panzer found on the Theater of the Mind - Old Time Radio channel on Youtube.

 

The Philip Marlowe mystery The Black Halo is 25 minutes long. The episode was broadcast on January 15, 1949.

 

 To listen to the episode tootle over to Old Time Radio