An editor's view - Suzanne Arnold

Exploring the meanings and origins of phrases and sayings (Video showing two feet wearing trainers walking past a camera placed on the ground.)

Highlights from my reading and listening this month The Bookseller (UK): ‘It was inevitable’: Agents react to major book deal that collapsed over suspected AI use (4 August): ‘Currently, with no concrete way of proving AI use one way or another, agents are

Highlights from my reading and listening this month Especially on copyright issues, hallucinations and whether ‘AI detectors’ are reliable, as well as the surrounding ethical issues that inform my thinking on generative AI Tim Ferriss: Has AI Already Kill…

Jack Hart, Story Craft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Non-Fiction It was the McDonald’s fries that hooked me.

What are they and why do some fonts have them?

English Grammar Day 2026 These aren’t the latest versions of (some of) these style guides, but digital copies don’t have the same photo appeal.

Highlights from my reading and listening this month Research Information: arXiv imposes one-year ban for unchecked AI-generated content (18 May): ‘If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generat…

Exploring the meanings and origins of phrases and sayings British Library, June 2026.

Three things I’ve learned about peer review Time has flown and my year as interim managing editor of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology is at an end.

Highlights from my reading and listening this month Liminal Pages: AI and Fiction Editing: Should You Use It, Can You Trust It and Will It Take Your Job?

Exploring the meanings and origins of phrases and sayings What does it mean?

Exploring the meanings and origins of phrases and sayings A hatch and a batten of wood… What does it mean?

Highlights from my reading and listening this month First up, I will not feed your text into generative AI without your permission.

How Greta Thunberg conveys a big message with little words I’ve been listening to Greta Thunberg’s No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, a collection of speeches given in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Highlights from my reading and listening this month After a couple of months in which I didn’t share anything on artificial intelligence (AI) on this blog, this month I have a bumper crop for you.

Exploring the meanings and origins of phrases and sayings Hills (or mountains?)

Eco influencer Judith Leary-Joyce With Judith (left), January 2026 ‘Imagine getting an email saying you’re invited to No. 10!

Plain language and stories help convey your message Storytelling has been a buzzword in business for some years now, but I recently encountered an unusual and – I think – particularly effective implementation.

Exploring the meanings and origins of phrases and sayings What does it mean?

Highlights from my reading and listening this month The Authors Guild (US): Anthropic Settlement Notice Update for Authors (3 December): ‘All class action members should now be receiving email or paper notices with instructions to submit a claim form.’

Highlights from my reading and listening this month US Authors Guild: Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft (27 October): ‘When thousands of people illegally download books, music, or films, and their…