Adventures in Publishing-land: Memoir Myths, Broken Publisher PR Promises and Ethics in Agency
2026-10-05
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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