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I wasn't being passive aggressive; he's just a massive name in popular culture, and I guess I'd have thought googling might be an easier way to get an answer to your question than asking a random person on social media. But it's all good - hope you have a lovely night.

I mean, it's pretty quick to find out who he is. But assuming your question is genuine: TV presenter, comedian, and - sadly for those of us who care about books - one of the most successful ever authors since accurate records began (only three writers have outsold him).

(I’m enjoying the fact that Charlie Redmayne’s departure wasn’t enough to revive the embers of Book Twitter on here, but this news has at least set some sparks flying)

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Oh my god. It’s actually finally happened. Merry Christmas, everyone!

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This year has contained some huge highs and lows, both professionally and personally, but it’s incredible to look back and find so many authors and books I am just immensely proud to have played even a small part in helping reach an audience.

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Spending time in these last couple of weeks collating press summaries for a few of our biggest campaigns of the year - and it’s so lovely to be able to stop and reflect on these, and the other titles I’ve worked on across 2025. >>

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

97% is “no clear consensus”?! Come off it, Liz.

Screenshot of guardian news story by UK technology editor Robert Booth, dated 16th December, under the category “Artificial intelligence (AI)”

Headline: Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan

Subheader: Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson:

Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?"

Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/12/2025

If you love science and comedy and @robinince.bsky.social, now is a great time to discover @cosmicshambles.com and everything they have to offer. And if you're in the vicinity of London, UK, check out their amazing holiday event, "Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People"

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Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People | The Cosmic Shambles Network

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This is a very sad moment - Robin is a joy on air, a brilliant mind, and a deeply kind and thoughtful human being. A huge loss to the BBC.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/12/2025

Me, in The Guardian today: "This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for what is right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand."

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The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson

Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

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HADLEY FREEMAN
Wes Streeting must stand up to the
ADHD activists
I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life
Hadley Freeman
pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone.
Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on.
2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 04/12/2025

“I question the energy that is being dedicated to harming vulnerable people and children rather than tackling the much bigger and very real risks facing women and girls.” A Brownie parent tackles Girlguiding banning trans girls: “It is an attack on children.” www.independent.co.uk/voices/girlg...

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Those who back banning trans girls from Girlguiding need to look at Brownie Law

...which clearly states: ‘A Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself’ – something that seems to have been forgotten in making the decision to ban trans girls from Girlguiding. There are many risk...

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

So far I've tried emailing (bounceback), Live Chat (kicked off after 15 minutes of waiting to be connected to an agent, with a 'network error'), Facebook Messenger (dead link), WhatsApp (no number or link given) and phone (still on hold, 40 minutes in, having spoken to no one). Infuriating.

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Listened to a podcast recently about the rise of 'sludge' - the incorporation of inconvenience (long waits, AI chatbots etc) into customer service, designed to make customers give up before they can claim what's they're owed. Having had a parcel misdelivered by FedEx, I'm REALLY feeling it today.

Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

An empty train is sitting on a platform, at least 15 people clustered around the closed doors of each of the four carriages. God love the middle aged man who walks up, in front of all of us, and presses the unlit Door Open button “just in case”…

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Heading back north after a flying visit to London, to speak at the @publicitycircle.bsky.social Junior Publicists’ Training Day. A brilliantly engaged audience, with some great questions thrown my way! A good reminder both of what great work the PPC does, and how much talent there is coming up.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Some lovely news. Somewhere Bobby and Robert are celebrating! Congratulations to everyone shortlisted and thank you to the judges and Nero and to @canongate.co.uk and my agent Clare Conville and to every bookseller, librarian and reader for giving my story space.

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Every time I think this government can’t sink lower, they prove me wrong. It’s almost impressive.

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Yes, that was a massive consideration - I don’t think anyone felt right making promises we couldn’t keep to authors in pitch meetings. You can’t always guarantee coverage or success, but you can promise time, energy and a team who really care. Delighted that’s coming across - it means everything!

Canongate has no plans to grow further, we actively cut our list size some years ago and last year became a BCorp. Does that inoculate us against poor ethical choices or this kind of rhetoric? Absolutely not - but I hope it’s a sign of the way we choose to do business, and what we are prioritising.

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Oh sure - and the conversation about the ethics of who you choose to publish is a whole other factor. But I guess I just wonder how that transition happens, and whether it’s inevitable. I’d love to think not - so maybe it’s just a question of a series of conscious choices made much earlier…

I do think ever-tightening margins are leading a lot of people down some pretty dark paths - less spread betting and more just straightforward churn - and it’s easy to forget the reason we do what we do. And absolutely sheer corporate greed plays a factor in many places too. But still…

I hear you, but Newton isn’t a corporate CEO who moved over to lead Bloomsbury; publishing has been his life. I’d love to understand how you reach this position from that starting point. And corporate publishing remains packed w/ people who love books, even alongside those with a “units” viewpoint…

And obviously that's without even scratching the surface of his comments on the role of AI. Which also raises MANY questions for me, none of them good.

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Beyond that, surely anyone who works in publishing would acknowledge that high sales are not always an indicator of good writing, nor low sales a sign of poor quality. There are a wealth of factors that go into a book's success incl - as ever - the industry's heavy inbuilt biases and, frankly, luck.

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I'm just fascinated by his logic: if a 'big name' is already a big name (ie, a celeb), there's no guarantee they're a good writer. If they're a big name because they've made it as a writer, someone once took a chance on them. So how do you build more of those without investing in unknown names?

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Personally, I’d ask why a “big name” is considered an indicator of quality, in publishing of all places - when the rise of celeb-authored books at the expense of new talent has long been an issue. But then I’ve quite a few questions about that interview, and that one is relatively low down the list.

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AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief

For those who missed it: www.theguardian.com/business/202... “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers.”

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Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Worth bearing in mind this recent news, while considering Nigel Newton’s latest comments in the Guardian. Looks like Bloomsbury are going to be leaning hard into AI in the future: bsky.app/profile/publ...

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Have I mentioned recently how much I adore this book? A love story spanning decades, it left me in tears at the end (not a common occurrence) - and I was far from the only one to have that response. Lily lands in the UK tomorrow - do catch her on tour if you can: buythebook.online/heart-the-lo...

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