We See London

As the London Book Fair enters its third and final day, we chatted with an array of exhibitors and attendees who are enjoying the show’s bustling show floor, strong market for book deals, and robust American presence—even as geopolitical turmoil looms large over the event. And we’re still keeping tabs on many, many book deals being inked at the fair. Marvel is reteaming with Fantagraphics Books on a new line of books, and Chooseco is reissuing its very first Choose Your Own Adventure Book from 1979. Plus, Wiley put out comprehensive guidance for how authors can responsibility and effectively use AI. Speaking of which, the Guardian reports that OpenAI has debuted an AI model described by CEO Sam Altman as particularly “good at creative writing”—and author Jeanette Winterson took to the paper’s pages to praise the AI’s literary chops. Meta is looking to stymie further sales of a former employee’s tell-all memoir, Careless People, published by Flatiron, with an emergency arbitrator ruling that the author is prohibited from promoting the book, according to CNBC. The chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities has stepped down “at the direction of President Trump,” per the New York Times. As the meteoric rise of romantasy continues, Book Riot wonders: Where have all the non-romance fantasy books gone? And book cover artist Chris Moore, who illustrated sci-fi classics by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke, has died at 77.