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5th Aug 2025

Why We Need an Honest Conversation About AI

AI is already deeply embedded in workplaces, often used covertly by employees facing pressure and fear. This hidden use, or “Shadow AI,” highlights a ...

Meru Gokhale

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31st Jul 2025

The Long Road to Number One

The recent rise of Amit Majmudar’s The Abundance to the top of the UK Independent Bookshop Top 20—over a decade after its initial release—highlights a...

Meru Gokhale

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4th Aug 2025

AI Publishing Revolution: How $47 Billion Market Growth Is Reshaping Book Creation in 2024

AI has leapt from novelty to necessity: revenue from AI-powered book-creation tools is set to rocket from $2.8 billion today to $47.1 billion by 2034....

Meru Gokhale

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4th Aug 2025

The Number One Question Writers Ask Me About AI (and Why It Matters)

Writers' most common question about AI reveals deeper concerns about creative ownership and trust. This piece unpacks where that question comes from—a...

Meru Gokhale

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15th May 2025

How Medium-Sized Publishers Can Compete with the Big Five Using AI Editorial Tools

Across the publishing landscape, the Big Five (Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, and Macmillan) hold the adv...

Kashif Mashaikh

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12th May 2025

The Ultimate Guide to Preparing Your Manuscript for Literary Agent Submissions

You’ve poured heart, soul and probably several litres of coffee into your manuscript. Now comes the next step: preparing it for submission to literary...

Kashif Mashaikh

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9th May 2025

How AI Editing Tools Are Quietly Transforming Small Publisher Workflows

For small publishers, the editorial process often feels like a juggling act: tight budgets, limited teams, and the expectation to deliver books that c...

Meru Gokhale

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15th Oct 2024

Join Our Team: Editrix.ai is Hiring!

The age of AI is here, and with it comes both excitement and uncertainty. While some may worry about being replaced by technology, we believe that AI ...

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26th Jul 2024

Editrix Introduces Inline Prompts: Your Personal Editing Assistant at the Sentence Level

We're excited to announce the arrival of Inline Prompts, a powerful new feature on Editrix.ai designed to make your editing process more focused and e...

Meru Gokhale

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25th Jun 2024

The Writer's Program

Every writer knows the feeling: that moment when the words won't come, when the blank page seems more like a wall than a canvas.

Meru Gokhale

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25th Jun 2024

The truth no one tells you: Most good writing starts out as bad writing

Every writer I know has been there. You're halfway through your novel, and suddenly a brilliant idea for a new story pops into your head.

Meru Gokhale

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23rd Apr 2024

The Unsung Hero of Publishing: Why Blurbs Deserve More Attention

In the world of publishing, where countless books compete for readers' attention, the blurb plays a crucial role in helping readers discover new stori...

Meru Gokhale

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8th Apr 2024

Don't overthink your book proposal

Perfectionism will paralyze your progress.

Meru Gokhale

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21st Mar 2024

What is a book proposal?

Imagine this: You're a writer with a great book idea, but you know publishers and literary agents are inundated by stacks of unsolicited manuscripts—t...

Meru Gokhale

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12th Feb 2024

The Fears, Anxieties, and Excitement around AI in the World of Books

As AI rapidly transforms the writing and publishing landscape, it evokes a mix of optimism, scepticism, and questions among those in the global publis...

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30th Nov 2023

What is book editing?

What is editing, and what do editors do?

Meru Gokhale