Hello and welcome back to Books on the Brain. On this week's episode, we are back with our Book Report's bringing two stories to you! Danielle's delivers the story that still haunts a lot of the book community, the history being Kathleen Hale, the author who became a stalker to one of her reviewers. Deirdre brings us some newer news on Apple's newest foray into AI narrated audiobooks. Sources: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/scaachikoul/kathleen-hale-goodreads-catfish-crazy-stalker https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelkramerbussel/2019/01/09/kathleen-hale-is-a-crazy-stalker-grove-press/amp/ https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/18/am-i-being-catfished-an-author-confronts-her-number-one-online-critic https://www.bookbrowse.com/news/detail/index.cfm/news_item_number/3020/news/filippo-bernardini-italian-admits-stealing-unpublished-books https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-audiobooks https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/05/apple-launches-ai-powered-book-narrations/ https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23540261/apple-text-to-speech-audiobooks-ebooks-artificial-intelligence-narrator-madison-jackson https://authors.apple.com https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/89547-audiobook-growth-continues.html https://play.google.com/books/publish/autonarrated/#scroll-at-narration Want your voice heard in any of these conversations? You can send us a DM or comment on our Instagram @booksonthebrainpodcast ! You can also send us an email: [email protected] We upload weekly on Wednesdays, and you can find us individually Deirdre (she/her) @deirdrerosemorgan on Instagram & TikTok, Danielle (she/her) @d .j.books on Instagram ‌

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