I discovered a nice little feature of A+ content on Amazon. Someone mentioned it and I tried it, you add the product comparison widget on your box set and you add the ASINs of your books and it looks nice. Read more
Qwen is relatively unrestricted and gives you fine control. The results are usually good, with no weird hands. Sometimes the eyes and teeth are a bit off. It’s fixable in Photoshop, again using AI nano banana or flux. I’m using Read more
I don’t like to call people out but look at this AI slop cover. This guy has 200+ reviews and you’re still worrying whether you should use an AI cover or not.
I asked chatgpt to make me something as iconic as the Hajime Sorayama chrome robot but tailored to my work and it gave me this.
Ads on social media: two strategies—big bursts with large ad spends (with long tail sales) vs small daily budgets (~10% ad spend). Both work. Small ads are less stressful, let you run continuously for real stats, and add up annually.
This author is NOT talking about AI, just the publishing process. But AI tools can help you go through this pitfall without spending 9 years to figure it out. AI tools can help you do research, write to market, check tropes, research covers, and write faster than 1 book a year.
Someone made the poster for fun and I turned it into a horror movie poster with flux with a simple prompt.
The rise of AI slop is already starting to muddle what the true historic images are. I predict we’ll go back to curated repositories and directories like this one for many different things very fast.
When I started writing the Halloween Raid I wanted to do a little novella every year. 5 years passed. Now writing book 4 with AI help—story bible, scene list, 40 chapters of ~1800 words each. Hopefully ready for Halloween.
