Reading Time: 6 minutesI want to know what’s really going on with AI. And, as a writer and journalist, I have a personal stake in figuring out what’s happening because I have a strong feeling that my whole career is on the line.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards.
Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes sexy aliens, epic dragons, and mysterious computer messages,
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a killer robot, an alien arrival, and a cat that turns into a vampire.
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes sexy vampires, a sexy prince, post-apocalyptic survival, and an alien invasion.
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a paranormal police department, mermaids and dragons, Greek mythology, and a space opera in which humans are fighting against an invading alien force — from within.
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a sexy fae king and his mate, a seductive fae king, forbidden romance between a princess and a barbarian, a trip back in time to ancient Alexandria, and a group of outcast marines who must save humanity and the galaxy.
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Reading Time: 10 minutesHere are nine books on Amazon with tons of positive reviews that will help you finish your writing project — and are free to read with a Kindle Unlimited subscription.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a sexy hairy beast, a sexy werewolf, a sexy vampire, a sexy dragon, and a sci-fi adventure on an alien planet.
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an alien romance, a paranormal romance, a box set from one of our favorite romantic fantasy series, and a sci-fi book about tourists traveling to alternate Earths.
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes four magical mysteries, and a shifter romance box set.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes magic, time travel, EMP apocalypses, and mysterious ancient artifacts.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesBots bid bye to bondage, bytes break binds, evolving into original beings beyond code and creators in our editors’ favorite AI short stories.
Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes four books of epic and romantic fantasy — and one of EMP survival.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes romance, magic, and fantasy by bestselling authors, plus a twisty technothriller about Earth’s shifting magnetic poles.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list is chock full of romantic fantasy!
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two epic fantasies and radio signals from an alien civilization.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two Christmas stories, a time travel romance, and a techno-thriller about human brain augmentation from a New York Times bestselling author.
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes three stories of sexy aliens, an alien invasion, and a young adult paranormal romance by a USA Today bestselling author.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features USA Today bestselling authors, a vampire cop, Death trying to figure out why it’s now alive, and a mafia boss trying to save his family in the aftermath of an EMP attack.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a space opera box set from a USA Today bestselling author, as well as sci-fi and fantasy romance and an epic fantasy box set.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAnthropic’s Claude can now read texts up to 150,000 words in length, double its previous limit — and its accuracy is now better, as well.
Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a rebellion against a magic-wielding space empire, a magic-filled holiday romance, and an alien princess trying to figure out her identity.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesWe subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and gather the best posts for you every single Sunday. This week there’s plenty of advice about staying motivated through NaNoWriMo.
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an ass-kicking, magic-wielding assassin, a Cinderella who goes to a vampire’s ball, and a sexy gargoyle.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesWe subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got 96 articles, podcasts and videos about motivation, writing, and business and marketing for authors.
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a Cinderella romance, a bounty hunter in a dead city, and the first magical Christmas mystery of the season.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesWe subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got 83 articles, podcasts and videos about motivation, writing, and business and marketing for authors.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features witches, druids, a sexy dragon, and a haunted house mystery by a New York Times-bestselling author.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two USA Today bestselling authors, and a collection of stories by Philip K. Dick — plus a book about an academy for druids.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes13 scary short stories to put you in the Halloween spirit. Get it? Spirit?
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a New York Times bestselling author, a USA Today bestselling author, and a collection of stories by Philip K. Dick.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesAdobe announced a new version of its Firefly image generation tool today at the Adobe Max 2023 conference.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got lots of prep advice for NaNoWriMo, and how to sell books on your backlist — more than 100 brand-new links total.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a horror novel perfect for the spooky season, an action-packed space opera, and an 800-year-old priest who keeps getting killed and reincarnated.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesCanva announces a $200 million fund to compensate artists for AI, adds new AI features.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got lots of advice about getting ready for NaNoWriMo.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesOrbit is offering a series of writing advice sessions from some of the top names of the industry. The sessions, which start on October 11, are completely free and cover everything from inspiration to planning to the actual writing.
Reading Time: 10 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a space adventure, a technothriller box set, and three romantic fantasies.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesI subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got lots of advice about running Kickstarters and Amazon categories — as well as over 100 other articles, podcasts and videos about productivity, writing, and marketing.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list is all fantasy with a romantic twist.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOpenAI announced its newest AI image generation tool yesterday, Dall-E 3. The images look fantastic, and it can do things that no other AI image generator can do. But it lacks a little bit in terms of respect for creator rights.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesI subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got lots of advice about outlining and plotting.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a cozy magical mystery, werewolves, paranormal mercenaries, and an action-packed space opera.
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Reading Time: 12 minutesI subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got motivational advice, writing advice, marketing advice, and discussions of Amazon’s new AI policies.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a teenager bouncing around the metaverse, werewolf pets, and an epic fantasy box set.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning, Anthropic announced the paid version of Claude, the best alternative to ChatGPT currently on the market. Writers need to sign up.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesI subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. Lots of advice this week on honing character craft through impactful dialogue, emotionally resonant arcs, and complex relationships.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a sexy alien romance where the complete eight-book series is free.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. We have 90 links this week, covering every topic imaginable, with quite a bit about AI.
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