Reading Time: 11 minutesI take another stab at making AI books covers. And I make 28. Someone, stop me.
What I learned today while making 28 covers with Midjourney and Canva Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesArkady Martine won the most prestigious science fiction award last night for her novel A Desolation Called Peace, a follow-up to her novel A Memory Called Empire, which itself won a Hugo in 2020.
Arkady Martine wins for best novel at Hugo Awards in Chicago Read More »
Reading Time: 8 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 4 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 fae princes, telekinetic witches, angels, a demonic private eye, a couple of different dystopian futures, vampires, werewolves, and zombies.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 2, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday OpenAI announced a new feature — outpainting. It’s like cropping, but in the opposite direction. You can make an image bigger, and Dall-E 2’a AI automatically fills in the background of that image.
How to use Dall-E 2’s new outpainting tool to make book covers Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesI use Midjourney and Canva to create a couple of quick book covers.
How to make a book cover with Midjourney and Canva Read More »
Reading Time: 12 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 28 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 magic, werewolves, vampires, super-intelligent animals, and an alien battle in outer space.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 26, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 21 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes shifting magnetic poles, first contact with aliens, magical private eyes, shapeshifters, a smuggler ship caught in the middle of an interstellar war, and a magic school student with no magic.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug 19, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 14 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 fae princes, telekinetic witches, angels, a demonic private eye, a couple of different dystopian futures, vampires, werewolves, and zombies.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 12, 2022 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 7 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 a dystopian future, murderous creepy mermaids, grim reapers, sexy aliens, and a six-thousand-year-old werewolf named Cain. Yup, THAT Cain.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 5, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesA new AI image generator called Midjourney offers images comparable in quality to Dall-E 2, but is open to the public.
Midjourney is a great new AI image generator — if you’re a fan of Discord Read More »
Reading Time: 12 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 31 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesAll NASA images are available for free, for any use — including commercial. They’re particularly great for background images on sci-fi author websites.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMetaStellar’s first anthology is out today, a collection of short stories from our first year of publication.
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 mystery, galactic empires, a mermaid, dark magic, post apocalyptic survival, and lots of romance.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 29, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesI’ve been collecting AI-powered image generation tools for the past year and one has become my go-to over the past couple of weeks — Craiyon (formerly Dall-E Mini).
10 tips for the free Craiyon AI image generator (formerly Dall-E Mini) Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the videos from this year’s AuthorTube Writing Conference was so impactful that it deserved to be spotlighted in its own article. The main idea? Stop doing all the things.
The best video from this month’s AuthorTube conference Read More »
Reading Time: 10 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 24 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 wizards, space fleet battles, bridges to other worlds, a sexy shape-shifting crocodile, and dragons.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 22, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 17 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 post apocalyptic multi world traveling, cozy magical mystery, horror, werewolves, high fantasy, and a superhero.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 15, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 10 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 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 zombie PI, a supernatural bounty hunter, witches, spaceships, vampires, epic fantasy, and an EMP apocalypse.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 8, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 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’s top writing advice from around the web for July 3 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 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, demons, dragons, spaceships, and Celtic gods.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 1, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 26 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 fairies, vampires, werewolves, a magic school, demons, and highlands time travel.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 24, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 19 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 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, zombies, vampires, gothic horror, romance, monsters who live in the woods, and lots of magic.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 17, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 12 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, nordic myth and legend, vampires, time travel, action and adventure, wizards, and space exploration.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 10, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 6 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 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 opera, angels and demons, witches, fairies, and plenty of sexy supernatural action.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 3, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 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’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 29 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space-traveling telepaths, mystery-solving witches, vampires, zombies, FBI agents tackling supernatural horrors, and a lust demon.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 27, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 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’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 22 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, dragons, witches, King Arthur’s knights, space battles, and a lonely rutabaga.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 20, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 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’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 15 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list has time travel, cozy magical mysteries, fallen angels, shapeshifters, and a dying civilization at the end of the universe.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 13, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 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’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 8 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 space fleet science fiction, dystopian futures, urban fantasy, romance, and both historical and urban fantasy.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 6, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 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’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 1 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes fallen goddesses, gothic mystery, cozy mystery, alien romance, and retold fairytales.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 29, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday, Google announced a free service to convert your EPUB file into an audiobook, using its AI voices.
Google offers free AI-powered audiobook narration Read More »
Reading Time: 11 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’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 24 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 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 dystopian future, a metaphysical fantasy, romance, witches, werewolves, vampires, and a dragon rider.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 22, 2022 Read More »
