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Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 736 of the podcast, and it is Saturday the 3rd of February

2024 as this goes out.

In today's show, I have an interview on Your Author Brand with Isabel Knight, who is a publicist,

and we talk about how to get to the deeper levels beneath your writing, the story beneath the story,

as well as why your author brand is even more important in an age of AI, and much more.

So that's coming up in the interview section.

So in publishing, book marketing and AI things, since I'm now putting all of that together,

this is a story of bookish positivity and I thought you would like it. So the BBC reports on

20 new miniature books that have been written to add to Queen Mary's Dollhouse, which has an

extensive library, originally designed to encapsulate

the literary culture from when it was built in the 1920s, features handwritten works by Sir Arthur

Conan Doyle, Vita Sackville West, A.A. Milne and Thomas Hardy. The books measure just 1.8 inches, 4.5 centimetres,

and have been handcrafted by famous authors to mark the centenary of the house's completion.

The new editions have been curated to reflect modern literature,

with the books penned and decorated by well-known writers and illustrators,

including Sir Tom Stoppard,

Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Sir Ben Ockrey, and Julia Donaldson, just a few of the famous faces.

The stories, or the little books, range from short stories, plays and poetry collections to articles

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