This editor is 🔥 and as a writing tool Lex saves so much time and effort.

Masterclass speakers include...

📖 Bestselling author Gillian McAllister
📖 Co-Head of Publishing UTA Christy Fletcher

They'll speak exclusively about writing, editing and the submissions process, share real-life publication journeys and answer your questions!

Very excited to participate!

Oh this is a real loss.

After attending State of the Union speech #SOTU tonight, I had a brief exchange w/ President Biden President Biden.
Me: “Mr. President, you gave a historical speech by mentioning AI in the SOTU speech for the first time in history.”
President Biden (smiling): “Yes! And keep it safe”. 1/

RIP Flaco.

I had a lot of fun creating this short program for #writers who are querying agents. It combined some of my favorite things: helping writers and the book Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath. It's free!

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So happy for Denise! And this book is a gift to all of us. 🎁❤️

Hummingbirds sheltering from #LARain in Hollywood

Obsessed

I have a new book out in hardcover, audiobook and kindle.

The better it sells, the better I can convince a publisher to let me write another.

I have 6 new first drafts ready to hustle, but they will languish forever without your book-buying help!

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Today I learned Stanley is a 110-year-old company that went from doing $70 million in sales in 2019 to $750 million in sales this year solely because of this water bottle. That’s incredible.

Our friends Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao—two professors who have been working with the d.school from the start—share their work with Harvard Business Review.

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Bob Sutton huggyrao Stanford Graduate School of Business

Congrats Fei-Fei Li! What an amazing story of your incredible life. This is a truly special book! The future of AI has come from your enormous spirit. ❤️

“Wherever I looked for Peggy, I found Rebecca, and I realized that I was building Peggy from some of the parts of Rebecca I missed the most.” Leslie Jamison writes about completing her friend Rebecca’s novel about Peggy Guggenheim. nyer.cm/ndkAcqq

Maggie O'Farrell fans, The Marriage Portrait is $1.99 on Kindle today. Crazy. amazon.com/Marriage-Portr…

PSA: For those uploading proprietary content to feed an OpenAI custom GPT intended for public use (e.g., authors and their books), be aware that it's incredibly easy for any user to download your underlying documents.

Instructing the GPT not to share the file has worked in…

Dan Heath has a new #podcast that is equal parts fascinating and delightful. It’s called What It’s Like to Be… it’s a series of fun, nosy interviews with people about their jobs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha…

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This astonishing memoir publishes this coming week. It’s beautiful story and a view on AI by someone with a humanistic view and a deep history with the science.