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.
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.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 3, 2023 Read More »
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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 1, 2023 Read More »
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.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 27, 2023 Read More »
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 a box set with interstellar war and an alien invasion, plus several paranormal romances, including a sexy gargoyle, a sexy werebear and some sexy vampires.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 25, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesAdobe Express is now publicly available, with free AI image generation. Plus, since it’s Adobe, the AI is trained only on fully-licensed art, and artists and compensated.
Adobe Express offers free AI art and is out of beta Read More »
Reading Time: 10 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 about AI.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 20, 2023 Read More »
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 story of EMP survival and a Western steampunk adventure.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 18, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 8 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. Today’s list has 73 articles, podcasts and videos that cover pretty much anything an author needs to know, from staying motivated, to creating scenes, to marketing books.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 13, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 18 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes three box sets, including one from a USA Today-bestselling author.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 11, 2023 Read More »
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 advice about punctuating dialogue, writing scenes — and using AI for marketing and editing.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 6, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a fantasy western, a battle between witches and vampires set in a small town in Australia, a sexy telepathic alien, and a convent of nuns fighting evil with their magic powers.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 4, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 175 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. We have 90 brand-new links this week to articles, videos and podcasts to help you be more motivated, more productive, and more successful.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 30, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a box set of ten books in an epic fantasy series, a story of EMP survival, a time-traveling young lady of Regency society, and a sexy alien,
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 28, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesAuthors are leaving Twitter — rebranded today as just “X” — for other platforms. Many are landing on Threads.
Scalzi, other spec fic authors head for the X-it Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 175 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 23, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two different box sets plus a military sci-fi adventure from a USA Today bestselling author.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 21, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesBest-selling Brazilian author PJ Caldas used AI technology to release a book trailer for his first novel in English.
Sci-fi author uses AI to promote new book about AI Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesSome free and easy ways to create good-looking author headshots and profile pics.
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 175 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. We have 86 links this week, covering every topic imaginable.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 16, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a circus troupe traveling through a fantasy world, a grim reaper who breaks the rules,
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 14, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesClaude AI, the hot new chatbot for book authors, works well as a grammar tutor, but is bad at fixing mistakes in your text. However, I did find one AI-powered tool that caught every error I threw at it.
Can Claude AI fix your grammar mistakes? No, it can’t, but there’s an AI that will. Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesClaude AI is the single best editor I’ve tried so far. And it can do a whole book at a time. For free.
10 ways Claude AI can help you self-edit your book — for free Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesAnthropic’s Claude beats ChatGPT hands-down when it comes to analyzing full-length books.
Book editing with AI: Code Interpreter vs. Claude — there’s no contest Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 175 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we got an interview with Brandon Sanderson where he talks about the future of publishing — and what he thinks about AI.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 9, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, werewolves, aliens, and magic schools.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 7, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis year’s Hugo Awards nominees include Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Nope, and an episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
Hugo Award nominations are out, and She-Hulk made the list Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 175 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, lots of great tips for creating a writing habit, plus practical advice for using AI to help your marketing — and your writing.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 2, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes four ghosts who murder bullies and take over their bodies and several fantasy romances.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 30, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesMore than 70 great free fonts for Canva ebook covers for sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres.
Best free Canva fonts for sci-fi, fantasy, and horror Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 175 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. This week, we’ve got some great videos from the 2023 AuthorTube Writing Conference.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 25, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesMidjourney adds zoom out feature, which is great for creating art for book covers.
Midjourney’s new zoom out feature great for book covers Read More »
Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a space opera about a man who watches all of humanity get destroyed by aliens.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 23, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutesI subscribe to more than 170 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. This week, we’ve got all about deep point of view, the pros and cons of using ChatGPT as a writing coach, and more than 90 other advice articles.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 18, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features an action-packed space opera by a USA Today bestselling author, a secret organization like Men in Black, but for fairies and dwarves, and a couple of very sexy aliens.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 16, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than 170 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. This week, learn about impostor syndrome, self-kindness, and how to set better goals.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 11, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a space opera by a USA Today bestselling author, a Western with outlaws and mages, and a cynical private eye who shape-shifts into a wolverine.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 9, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdobe promises to cover any legal costs that companies might incur as a result of using their AI-powered image generation tools.
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 170 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. This week, more conversations about AI, but also the usual good advice about writing, publishing, and staying motivated.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 4, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 19 minutesClaude can read a 75,000-word book and identify structural and style problems. It can also create outlines and character sheets.
Claude AI can read and analyze an entire book at once — here’s how to use it Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a divorced witch, an archeologist sent to explore alien ruins, and two teenage girls accidentally pulled into a dystopian future.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 2, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesWordpress.com now lets authors get paid for their newsletters.
Authors can now use WordPress to create newsletters — and get paid for them Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to more than 170 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. Some excellent marketing advice this week.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 28, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a creepy stalker-ish vampire, a witch trying to get her powers back, another witch who has to solve a murder mystery, and a box set of six EMP survival books.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 26, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesAdobe has added Firefly’s AI image generation to Photoshop so that you, or your cover designer, can create book covers using commercially-safe AI image generation.
Adobe adds Firefly’s AI image generation to Photoshop Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than 170 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 21, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a home care nurse who takes care of old vampires and werewolves, several different types of witches, and a gravedigger’s son who finds a mysterious amulet.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 19, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week we had a couple of great podcasts about AI from Joanna Penn.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 14, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes space battles, a journalist investigating a zombie cure, and a prison inmate who will have to survive an EMP disaster.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 12, 2023 Read More »
