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On his website, Neil Gaiman responded to allegations that he sexually abused several women. As he has previously, he denies ever having non-consensual sexual activity with anyone, and noted that his relationships with the women who reported abuse seemed positive at the time. “As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments I half-recognise and moments I don’t, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen…I went back to read the messages I exchanged with the women around and following the occasions that have subsequently been reported as being abusive. These messages […]

A hacker known as “Parasocial” has stolen personal details of millions of Scholastic customers, the Daily Dot reports. The leaked data has 8 million entries, including names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses of users who signed up on Scholastic’s website. (Excluding duplicates, there are more than 4 million unique email addresses.) The hacker told the site that they “gained access after stealing login credentials from an employee hit with malware” and “would have taken more data but were stopped due to an export limit on Scholastic’s server.” Parasocial also gained access to an employee portal with information about staff, invoices, […]

New York Magazine reports on the details of the Neil Gaiman sexual assault case, expanding on allegations first reported by New Zealand podcast Tortoise Media. Last July, five women accused Gaiman of assault, and one woman said she filed a complaint with New Zealand police. Four out of five of Gaiman’s accusers spoke to NY Magazine for the piece, and the publication reviewed journal entries, texts, emails, and police correspondence. Gaiman did not comment for the article, but he has denied all allegations. The piece, which is lengthy and thorough, spends the most time on the accusations brought by Scarlett […]

Publishers will keep producing more deluxe hardcover editions in 2025 with patterned edges, fancy covers, special endpapers and more. For Rebecca Yarros’s ONYX STORM, publishing January 21, Entangled is producing 2 million copies of the deluxe edition and 500,000 copies of the regular version. The publisher tells the NYT they have over one million pre-orders already. Penguin Random House says it plans at least 50 books with decorated edges in 2025, twice as many as they produced in 2024. William Morrow expects to print over 35 deluxe editions, up from 13; and Tor plans at least 45 special productions, up […]