Heads up: There is a COVER REVEAL and PRE-ORDER PUSH at the bottom of this newsletter. Why didn't I mention that in the subject heading? I think the rest of the newsletter will make that obvious. I often say that I hate marketing. This is not entirely true.
My personal and professional opinion on gen-AI can mostly be summed up with "ugh". I don't use gen-AI to brainstorm, write, or edit. I don't trust it for research purposes1, on account of all the well-documented cases where it just makes shit up. I
I finished my first draft of XO, Xena this weekend! This is the last Olympus Inc. book (for now) and concludes a series of six novels, a novelette and a novella. That's eight books, written over the last two and a half years. A lot of plot threads
I've been thinking about genre recently. Popular wisdom says that authors should not switch genres on readers. Readers, says popular wisdom, are fragile flowers who should not be exposed to the harsh conditions of genres outside their most-preferred climate, lest they wither like blossom on the vine. I
The last time I wrote, it was the beginning of two weeks of school holidays, and I had smugly portioned off 17 days to write a lot of XO, Xena, making up for the nasty illness which pushed me behind schedule. However! The fates laugh at mortal hubris, especially when