Welcome back to another library resource roundup. We have a Heated Rivalry AI-fueled fanfiction meltdown, “weird girl lit,” lots of drama surrounding the upcoming release of Children of Blood and Bone, and more.
Let’s dive in.
AI Updates- More artists are lawyering up against AI.
- How AI books sneak their way into stores.
- When AI invaded Heated Rivalry fanfiction or fanfic, the meltdown was epic.
- Why is Anthropic destroying books?
- HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray talks about AI authorship issues.
- This is a paywalled article, but the takeaway is that in a new study, readers gave higher ratings to AI-generated stories they believed were written by humans than to stories written by actual humans.
- Related: maybe this is why more writers are deliberately changing their writing style (including intentional typos!) to avoid being mistaken for AI.
- Boomers can’t stop gifting AI-generated slop books to their grandchildren. This is interesting because this also feels like something library staff might get questions about. (This also reminds me of those mass-produced books in the ’90s, where you could have your child’s name inserted into a generic story. Yes, I definitely had one.)
- What makes for a good comedic novel?
- Where to start with the Miss Marple series.
- What is “weird girl fiction?”
- How YA romance novels quietly do the emotional education that schools won’t.
- The allure of society thrillers.
- A Latina power reading list.
- Mysteries are on the rise in Christian fiction.
- Why LGBTQ+ romance is hotter than ever.
- Podium Entertainment is partnering with the podcast network Realm to adapt 35 previously serialized fiction podcasts into audiobooks.
- John Green reveals the casting for the audio version of his upcoming novel, Hollywood, Ending.
- The best audiobooks of August.
- These were the most popular audiobooks on Libby this summer.
- 6 audiobooks to accompany your end-of-summer road trips.
- The pop culture appetite for Agatha Christie adaptations seems to be at an all-time high.
- Apple TV has landed the rights to Rebecca Yarros’ upcoming romance novel, Peculiar Stars.
- There’s been a lot of drama surrounding the upcoming adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone.
- AMC’s Interview With the Vampire has been renewed for a fourth season.
- Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy is getting a series adaptation at Apple.
- Sarah Pinborough’s upcoming novel, They Say a Girl Died Here, is getting a series adaptation.
- Casting updates for Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and The Secret of Secrets.
- 7 of the best LGBTQ+ book-to-screen adaptations.