Tying Up Loose Ends in Order to Start Anew Pt. 1
Reflecting on attempts to market the novel, A Perfect Blindness, by exploring AI tools and shifting genres. After initial experiments with Amazon’s A10 algorithm and A+ content, results were disappointing. Despite a lackluster showing at the Brooklyn Book Festival, new insights from AI usage show promise for improved marketing strategies.
I Believed a Quote That Wasn’t True
The author reflects on a misundertood quote and how it shaped him as a writer.
What’s in a Name?
The name made good sense as I was feverishly finalizing the artwork for the cover, dragging the novel over the finish line to finally exist in print.
APB, Vibing, and Me
When the announcement went out that Anthropic, the parent company of Claude, was being sued for training their AI models on pirated books, I nodded, lips thinning to an “about damned time” expression. In the Atlantic article, there was a link to see if Anthropic had fed a particular book to their hoppers to train their LLM […]
Brooklyn Book Festival
I’ll be showing my stuff off at the Brooklyn Book Festival in September. I’m part of the New Wei Author Collective Click below to get more details.
UPDATES from Laboratory Brooklyn
An update on A+ content, description and changes to metadata as well as short stories moving things forward
UPDATES from Laboratory Brooklyn
Hey Reader, Lance here. I needed to give my characters a break this time and write the update myself. Updates on Butchery and Metadata Last time, we reported on changes to A Perfect Blindness’s metadata, the A+ material, keywords, and description. If you don’t know what A+ material is, it’s that stuff that appears below a title on Amazon in the “From the Publisher” section. It’s relatively new for indie writers like me, so I gave it a whirl: From the Publisher Three characters, each telling…
Of Butchery and Meta Data
He found plenty of references to surprises, shocks, twists, and endings that readers hadn’t seen coming. That suggests a very different kind of book.
Jonathan is Back, Rock on
For everyone who wants to give that time in Chicago a spin. I’ll suffer it all again just to get on stage one more time.
Jonathan is back, rock on
Hey Reader, It’s Jonathan, again. Lance asked me to come back. Okay, you got me. I nagged him to let me come back. See, I really liked it when a bunch of folks downloaded A Perfect Blindness. Hundreds of people. All these folks, reading the words that brought my world to life. Me included. Man, getting to stand on stage again and sing. That’s was sweet. Sure, we had to go through a lot or b.s. to get there, but damn, it felt good to hear the applause again. And yeah, I’ll go through all the…
