Shooting The Shit About Cancelled Auctions and AI Inevitability
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Welcome to another episode of Shooting the Shit with literary agents Carly Waters and Cece Leera, where we dissect publishing gossip, discuss book industry trends, and the overall state of the book business. If you've ever wanted to grab a coffee with two literary agents, grab your mug and pull up a chair.
Hello everybody and happy Monday. You have CeCe and Carly here with you. And we have another hot topic off the top today. As you can probably see, since you've already clicked on this, you know what we're probably going to be talking about, and it is a cancelled auction. I guess plural, canceled auctions. And kind of talking about AI inevitability and the conversations we have to have in the business about this, which feels like Cece, I mean, I'll let you chime in. I feel like we talk about the a version of this every week.
How are you feeling about all of this? Definitely feel like we're talking about a version of this every week. I guess I'm not surprised just because since this topic is so fluid and it moves so fast and since there's so many big emotions around it and so much complexity. I guess it's unsurprising that we keep talking about it because we talk about the headlines, right? And AI is always on the headlines, but it's still I don't wanna be talking about AI. Like we're going to. We're going to, but I want I want the headlines to be about other things. Just saying. I know. I know.
If you listen all the way to the end of the episode, we do have some non AI things to talk about. But we obviously want to hit you with the high notes off the top here. You know, this information you guys have probably seen in a variety of places. We tried to pull together some resources that we trust and believe in to kind of frame the conversation. So I'll just to start off with this is from Publishers Weekly. And this is essentially the situation, which was a book was in a 14-way auction. And the agents decided not to kind of pursue the deal. So here we go. Before last Friday, the Nigerian author Jerry Adieu Falade was all but unknown save for a small group of publishers who participated in an auction for his novel, Call Me, I'll Hide the Body.
And the numerous agents he'd vetted prior to signing with Mark Gerald at Europa Content, whom he enlisted to sell in the US, and Sandy Hogman to sell UK rights, both agents effectively secured six-figure and seven-figure deals in the UK and US respectively and drummed up interest in screen rights with offers for the crime novel reportedly topping two million dollars. Whether this number includes foreign rights or film and TV adaptations remains unknown because on July 29th, the agents withdrew, call me, I'll hide the body from submission.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:16
2
What happened with the cancelled 14‑way auction for *Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body*?
7:16–16:34
3
Why are agents and editors suspecting AI use in the manuscript and how did that affect the deal?
16:34–23:45
4
Who should set clear AI guidelines for authors, agents, and publishers?
23:45–34:17
5
What are the risks of using AI detection software without an author’s consent?
34:17–40:23
Speakers
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