Writers have been using AI tools for years – from Microsoft Word’s spellcheck (which often makes unwanted corrections) to the passive-aggressive Grammarly.
As a writer and reader, publisher and academic, I am interested in experiments that operate at or on the periphery of our industry—beyond the centre of commercial and literary publishing.
Small independent start-up presses have always been instrumental in providing a platform and offering apprenticeships for many of Australia’s publishing professionals—from writers and editors to other emerged and emerging positions.
Everything is doom and gloom. That’s how I started this article, a couple of years ago. Then I revised it: ‘much has been made of how everything is doom and gloom’.
If you want to publish stylish and unique books, you don’t have to be a big concern.
