Blog Version: Fauci's Diary, Joe Rogan, and the Magic Boom in Fiction

Literary agents just received official permission to charge authors they don’t think will make money for services —and the new AALA rules take effect September 1st. Substack's new AI detection tool is already flagging real human writers and could cost you subscribers overnight. We're also covering why publishing posts the lowest AI adoption of any creative industry, a Christian fantasy conference's 18-month defamation battle, a dictation app built exclusively for fiction writers with free beta closing August 3rd, and why collapsing trust in science is quietly fueling the biggest supernatural fiction boom in decades. Check out the blog version with source links.