November 2025

AI Just Went Mainstream. Here’s What That Means for Indie Authors

/ Technology, Tools & AI / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

AI has officially gone mainstream—and that matters more than you think. This week on the blog, we’re looking at what the AI tipping point means for indie authors (hint: it’s not time to panic, but it is time to get your author platform AI-friendly). If your site doesn’t tell a chatbot what kind of stories you write, you’re already losing visibility.

Let’s fix that.

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Your Personal Weasel Word List (and Why You Should Actually Use It)

/ Publishing & Production, Work Processes / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Before you dump your draft on an editor—or on your future self—you should be doing a ruthless cleanup pass. That starts with your own personal Weasel Word List: those sneaky, repetitive words and phrases that dull your prose and clutter your scenes. You’ve got ‘em. Everyone does. The trick is to catch them before your editor does. Bonus: clean manuscripts make ebook compilers very, very happy (and don’t randomly explode on Kindle).

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