This Morning in Publishing: October 3, 2016

Time for a helpful roundup of what’s been happening in the publishing world. This morning were told by some very fervent cats that MAN MUST GO!

• What happens when you use a predictive text imitator to rewrite The Elements of Style? Sheer poetry, that’s what. As you can see above. (Background on predictive text imitators, in case you’re unfamiliar.)
• Listen to the dulcet tones of Zachary Quinto as he reads from John Scalzi’s The Dispatcher.
• The executive producers behind Agent Carter have optioned Wesley Chu’s The Lives of Tao for television!
• Realize that the time of man is coming to an end, and get this amazing poster by Justin Wolfson from Soho Press when you preorder Robert Repino’s Culdesac!

• Take a peek at the (potentially) newest Hugo category: Best Series. (Who would you pick?)
• The film adaptation of Dan Wells’s I Am Not A Serial Killer just won the Silver Méliès Award!
• HBO is looking to create a Game of Thrones spinoff, and George R.R. Martin has plenty of extra Westeros material to help them out.
• Check out the cover reveal of Curtis Craddock’s An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors:

• Fran Wilde talks about her “favorite bit” from Cloudbound, the one she doesn’t often get asked about: her characters’ disabilities.
• In the wake of Banned Books Week, here are 3 banned books that Shawn Speakman says shaped his life.
• In this Clarkesworld interview, N.K. Jemisin talks about what it’s like to be a “childhood insomniac” who needed to talk out her story ideas so she could get some sleep at night.