I’m starting to like nano banana. I ran a book promo in July, asked chatgpt for a quick banner. It delivered the above banner. Piss filter and everything. Nice. Ran with it. Grab the LitRPG Harem books here https://books.bookfunnel.com/haremgamelitbooks/ao4uy4ryoa
How to Get Consistent Series Covers in Ideogram AI (Works for fantasy, romance, pulp—anything that needs the same characters or branding across multiple books.) 1 Create a “DNA Prompt” for Your Series Element Example Why it matters Character shorthand — hero: red-haired woman, leather jacket, scar on left brow Re-use Read more…
✍️ Still trying to “find your voice” by talking to your writer friends on Discord? LMAO. Fire them. I just wrote a damn good military thriller setup with Gemini 2.5 Pro, and guess what? It didn’t need a mood board, a writer’s circle, or someone’s MFA-filtered opinion on sentence flow. Read more…
You’re still paying a human editor $1,500 to bloat your draft with passive voice and “tighten prose”? Cute. Meanwhile, I’ve got Claude working like an overcaffeinated intern—pumping out chapter rewrites, scene improvements, and juicy prose on command. FOR FREE. Is it perfect? Hell no. But if you’re still “struggling Read more…
A couple of months ago I hired Chrysanthi, a wonderful actress to make some bitcoin videos. During the shoot I asked her to pose around in normal everyday positions, reading the book The Bitcoin Standard. I knew I wanted to make a video about it so we just shot in Read more…
Most of the arguments people have against bitcoin stem from a simple fact: Their financial privilege allows them to dismiss it. They have never been unbanked, they always have an array of options like Google Pay, Apple Pay, Paypal, Amazon, credit cards and so many others. Their country’s currency has Read more…
Most bitcoiners have their own, much different definition of what it means to orange pill a person. I’ve seen mentions of getting a taxi driver to download a lightning wallet and sending the payment in sats to them. Is that truly orange-pilling? Hmm… no. It is a great first step, Read more…
I played around last night with Midjourney AI until they stopped my free trial. I started playing after someone posted his prompt about a bar on a spaceship. There’s a prompt for me that never gets old, and I can reroll it for hours and not get bored of the Read more…
The three most important writing lessons I’ve embraced and actually utilized in my work are the following: Jim Butcher’s livejournal blog. https://jimbutcher.livejournal.com/ An amazing resource, every post is just a lesson in itself to understand storytelling. The irony is that I also bought his mentioned teacher’s book, the Formula something, Read more…
Sadly with the pandemic and the rest of the nonsense I didn’t attend our usual speculative fiction workshop at ALEF since 2019. Our writing workshop has been going on for 20 years and the number of inside jokes and rituals has come up to a ridiculous amount. All in all, Read more…