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Brian Biswas

I am an author living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I've published three books: a short story collection, A Betrayal and Other Stories, published by Rogue Star Press in 2018; The Astronomer, a novel, published by Whisk(e)y Tit in 2023; and a second collection, Blister and Other Stories, published by Obie Books in 2024. I’m also a narrator for the AntiSF Radio Show, the radio offshoot of Antipodian Speculative Fiction, Australia's oldest online zine. Signup and be the first to hear about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways. As a thank you I'll send a copy of my latest short story, "The Expansion of Space."

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[BBN] Artificial Intelligence or Let’s play “Let’s Pretend!”

BBN is a free newsletter about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways, as well as my take on the publishing industry and the writing life. | View in Browser | Sign up here Another year, another newsletter. As I've said before, thanks for reading. It means a lot. Some great things are on the horizon which I will mention soon. . . . Last year I said that I might jump into the topic of Artificial Intelligence at some point and now is as good a time as any, so here we go― The...

BBN is a free newsletter about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways, as well as my take on the publishing industry and the writing life. | View in Browser | Sign up here In this newsletter, I talk about some interesting news on the book distribution front and present my holiday book sale. I’ll explain how book pricing works, and give a preview of things to come for my own work. Holiday book sale My books are distributed by IngramSpark and they’ve just announced a “Buy direct...

BBN is a free newsletter about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways, as well as my take on the publishing industry and the writing life. | View in Browser | Sign up here This month I’d like to talk about a court case that has been in the news of late, Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic, a class action lawsuit brought against the A.I. company Anthropic over the company’s use of allegedly pirated books to train its chatbots. The lawsuit 482,460. That’s how many creative works (novels,...

BBN is a free newsletter about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways, as well as my take on the publishing industry and the writing life. | View in Browser | Sign up here Thanks for reading my first author newsletter. I’m hoping that with these letters I can interact with my loyal readers and bring them a bit of the “behind the scenes” life of a writer. It’s exhilarating, but frustrating. And pretty much everything in between. I also want to thank you for spending time with me....