Publishers Behaving Badly
by StoryForge
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About this podcast
StoryForge is a small start-up company that's trying to revolutionize the publishing industry. In Season 1, we talk about the struggles of small business life. In Season 2, we dive into the writing and publishing industry because it's a mess. Scandals, advice, debates, we've got it all. Also, in case you haven't picked up on it yet, we hate AI.
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- Romance Con Is A Con | Publishers Behaving Badly · 1 h 4 minRomance Con, put on by Mischief Managed, is under fire for promoting an author whose book is essentially a Harry Potter advertisement. Instead of paying attention to trans voices…
- Who Are You, Really? | Publishers Behaving Badly · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 15Ava Wilde went a little viral on TikTok as a new author. The only problem is that we don't actually know who Ava Wilde is: the video of "her" was AI-generated. Is this akin to…
- Radishes Leading To Rabbit Holes | Publishers Behaving Badly · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 14We had all intentions of just talking about Radish Fiction and how it was closing. But... well... you can see what happened. We went down a number of rabbit holes from all over…
- Why Are Publishers Getting Into AI? | Publishers Behaving Badly · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 13A lot of companies in the writing and publishing world have really begun to lean into Gen AI. But... why? There are so many authors who are against it, and those who are for it…
- Don't Do This With Your Female Characters | Publishers Behaving Badly · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 12There's a subsection of the male writer population that doesn't know how to write female characters. Not all of them but there's a pretty good list of them. There's even a…
- If You've Gotten a 1-Star Book Review... Watch This | Publishers Behaving Badly · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 10You're never going to please everyone, that's just not the way reality works. Someone's going to leave you a bad book review at some point. So what do you do? Cry? Ignore it?…
- Read Something Other Than What Social Media Tells You To | Publishers Behaving Badly · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 9There are so many other books out there besides what you see on social media. There are books and authors that never get a chance just because they don't fit inside the perfect…
- Why Do Authors Trust Gen AI? | Publishers Behaving Badly · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 8Authors and illustrators are constantly having to apologize for being caught using Gen AI. It's harmed careers and companies, but people continue to trust AI and use it when they…
- The Government Is Trying To Defund Our Libraries | Publishers Behaving Badly · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 7The government is out to take our libraries away. They want to defund our libraries for whatever nonsense they can come up with. We say no to that. We say that our libraries are…
- A Gen AI Epidemic In The Sapphic Book Community | Publishers Behaving Badly · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 6Because Gen AI and the people using it just can't seem to leave the writing community alone, they're now targeting sapphic authors and sapphic books. Check out this wonderful…
- Meta's Illegally Pirating For Their AI | Publishers Behaving Badly · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 5LibGen or Library of Genesis is an illegal streaming site that's been around for some time. Why are we talking about them now? Well, because it would've taken too much time and…
- Voices with Soul: Why AI Can’t Replace Us | Publishers Behaving Badly · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 4Human Voices Only was a movement started by voice actors in response to Amazon's push for Gen AI-narrated audiobooks. Human voice actors took to social media to share clips of…
- Reedsy Kneels Before Gen AI | Publishers Behaving Badly · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 3Reedsy, the writing platform, sent out an email encouraging people to use Gen AI for things like data analysis and ad image generation. The problem? They have the Reedsy…
- Author Caught Using AI?! | Publishers Behaving Badly · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 2Some authors use editors to help with scenes. Some use ghostwriters. And at least one, KC Crowne, used ChatGPT or some other AI. How do we know? Because the response to the…
- The End of NaNoWriMo · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 1On March 31, 2025, the National Novel Writing Month organization, or NaNoWriMo, announced they would be shutting down. There are lots of questions around the timing and messaging…
- Writing Our Own Story | Live Beta Reading · 45 min · Season 1Beta reading is a lot different than just reading. A beta reader is reading with a purpose. A beta reader is reading to give feedback to the author on their ideas and themes, to…
- Writing Our Own Story | Generative AI Is Hurting Writers And Artists · 52 min · Season 1Generative AI has become an invasive species in the world of art and publishing. What is it bad, who is it hurting, and what can we do about it? StoryForge stands opposed to Gen…
- Writing Our Own Story | Special Guest: Kathy From Bublish Publishing · 40 min · Season 1The StoryForge team is joined by Kathy from Bublish Publishing. Bublish is on a mission to empower self-published authors with the tools, resources, and programs they need to be…
- Writing Our Own Story | Special Guest: Sarah Al-Serhaid · 36 min · Season 1Author of the book Etched In Stone, Sarah Al-Serhaid joins the podcast to talk about the journey of traditional publishing vs independent publishing as well as how she keeps a…
- Writing Our Own Story | Special Guest: Glen Weatherhead of Creative Writing Wizard · 42 min · Season 1Joining the StoryForge team is Glen Weatherhead, founder of Creative Writing Wizard. The Creative Writing Wizard aims to highlight indie authors, provide author resources, and…
