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.
UPDATES from Laboratory Brooklyn
An update on A+ content, description and changes to metadata as well as short stories moving things forward
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.
The Highest Compliment I’ve Ever Been Paid
Going alone and publishing on Amazon is putting yourself into the largest ocean there is, which is full of Great White Sharks and Orcas like Zafon, King, and Koontz, as well as minnows and krill.
A Perfect Blindness and Tales of Another World
Get A Perfect Blindness free for a limited time and step back into the 1980s.
Libraries, Levels, and the Readercon
For kicks and giggles last week, I checked World Catalogue again. The book is now in 11 libraries!
If It Were a Snake, It Would Have Bit You.
Daemons were not part of Philip Pullman’s original idea for the Golden Compass. And understanding this may have saved the novel I’m working on.
Been Busy Doing Things That Aren’t Especially Exciting to Talk About
Popping up here, again, to show that I haven’t died. And to excuse myself by revealing the several irons I have in the fire. And playing with fire is what’s been keeping me quiet, hypnotize by the jumping flames. (Anyone who remembers me from Boy Scouts would know I’m a bit of a pyro.) Okay […]
