Reading Time: 2 minutesMetaStellar does not accept works of fiction written with the help of ChatGPT or other generative AI tools. Our next submission window for original fiction opens March 1, and we accept reprint and excerpts any time throughout the year.
Reading Time: 9 minutesThere’s a $1 trillion industry that is about to be decimated by AI, and they’re spending billions to figure out how to survive. Any writer, artist, or editor can use their strategies.
How creatives can survive AI — lessons from a $1 trillion industry that’s fully at risk Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesAdobe Firefly, which is only trained on fully licensed images and pays artists, has added some new features that make it even easier for authors to create illustrations.
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.
The best free* books to help you battle procrastination Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesHow to steal Hollywood’s marketing tricks and develop trailers for print novels.
The Do’s and Don’ts of building a book trailer in the age of AI Read More »
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: 6 minutesAdobe announced a new version of its Firefly image generation tool today at the Adobe Max 2023 conference.
Adobe upgrades Firefly for better images, vector graphics Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesCanva announces a $200 million fund to compensate artists for AI, adds new AI features.
Canva sets up a $200 million artist compensation fund Read More »
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: 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.
Dall-E 3 looks great, but lacks respect for artist rights Read More »
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 6 minutesA week ago, Midjourney, which is the best AI generator on the market today, added the “describe” function, which lets you upload any image and get some suggestions for prompts that could have created it. It’s a great shortcut for creating images for book covers — or anything else you need graphics for.
How to use the new Midjourney ‘describe’ function to create great book covers Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutesIf you want the most bang for your buck, marketing-wise, the top advice is to have your own newsletter, and after considering 24 options, I’ve settled on MailPoet as the best combination of usability and value.
MailPoet is the best email newsletter service for authors and here’s why Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesProponents argue that generative AI is transformative and therefore fair use. Opponents point to financial losses from AI deep fakes. And the Copyright Office won’t grant copyright to AI images. But all of this could change as lawsuits make their way through the courts and AI companies adapt their business models.
Is generative AI legal? Is it ethical? And can you copyright AI text or images? Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutesHow to use AI-generated art to illustrate blog articles and social media posts, for book covers and website design, character concept art, author images, and more.
10 Ways to Make Your Writing Come to Life with Midjourney’s AI-Powered Images Read More »
Reading Time: 27 minutesI put ChatGPT through its paces and discover that it is an excellent writers’ assistant.
11 writing aids that will be replaced by ChatGPT Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis novel helped me pinpoint several misconceptions that I had about writing fiction. I hope you find my lessons helpful.
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay: 9 Lessons from the Best Stand-Alone Fantasy Novel of All Time Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe viral Dall-E 2 AI image generator is now open to all.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 4 minutesLarry Niven shares the exciting news that his classic 1970 novel Ringworld is in development with Amazon and MGM.
Ringworld the television series, and Larry Niven’s tips on working with co-authors 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: 7 minutesLink shortening services can help you track which of your book marketing efforts are actually working.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSci-fi and fantasy author Julie Czerneda moderated a panel today at BOSKONE 59, the annual conference organized by the New England Science Fiction Association. She and her guests discussed how they created the maps they have in their books, the value of including maps, and their favorite maps.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if aliens gassed a bunch of passengers on a plane?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if an ancient god had a dire warning for you?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if a horror author’s notebook had magical powers?
Reading Time: 16 minutesHow to make a panel on a Wordpress website to promote a new book release using Gutenberg blocks.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if everyone gets a magic tattoo and yours is most dangerous of all?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if a man had to enter an alternate reality to be with his wife?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year’s survey of more than 1,000 indie authors from Written Word Media shows that 79 percent think that marketing is the toughest part of being an indie author — compared to just 14 percent who said writing was.
Marketing hardest part of being an indie writer, survey shows Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if you were caught doing illegal magic?
