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Why Now Is the Best Time to Be an Indie Fiction Writer

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

Jane Freidman, at her blog just a few days ago, wrote a post, “Like It or Not, Publishers Are Licensing Books for AI Training—And Using AI Themselves.”

The post is a refreshingly blunt take on how AI is settling into the publishing industry. I will leave it to Jane to explain how, even for indie authors, there is new money to made from the AI phenomenon, if you’re smart and wrangle your contracts.

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Here’s an offer worth snatching up.

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

I very much resent SAAS (Software as a Service) products, these days, even though I’m chained to using two of them.

Microsoft 365 and Adobe Acrobat, since you ask. I just can’t get away from them. Similar products (Open Office, Google Office, and many PDF makers) just don’t offer the same features that I consider essential and use on a regular basis.

But I keep a watchful eye on potential contenders, all the same.

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Change Your Story, Change Your Writing Life

/ Discipline & Motivation, Stoicism & Perspective / 2 minutes of reading

Do you ever catch yourself thinking, “I’ll never sell,” or “I’m not talented enough”? If so, you’re not alone. We’ve all been there, doubting our abilities and waiting for some magical moment when we finally get chosen. But guess what? That thinking is backward! If we believe that it’s not our turn, that we’re not

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Should Fiction Authors Bother with Blogging?

/ Marketing, Networking / 4 minutes of reading / 2 Comments

The Pros and Cons of Blogging for Fiction Authors: Weighing Time Costs Against Marketing Benefits In the digital age, authors are no longer confined to traditional routes of getting their work noticed. Blogging has emerged as a powerful tool for fiction writers to build their audience, engage with readers, and establish a personal brand. However,

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Cleaning Up Your Manuscript for The Best Formatting Results

/ Publishing & Production / 6 minutes of reading / 2 Comments

Slightly off the beaten track today. At Stories Rule Press, we offer a formatting service to authors: Give us your manuscript and we will produce validated ePub and Mobi files that you can upload to the retail sites without issue. We’ll also do print layouts. But recently there’s been a rash of manuscripts come in

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Why UX Will be the Critical Factor for Indies in the Years Ahead

/ Futurism, Technology, Tools & AI / 9 minutes of reading

I try to avoid making predictions about where the indie publishing world will go in the future.  I’ve seen futurists get things very wrong indeed, because some disruptive factor they could not possibly have predicted comes along to blow everyone’s expectations out of the water. AI-anything has done that to us in the last year

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