A helpful tip has just occurred to me concerning book covers, although I haven't implemented it yet. As they say, readers need to see a book cover several million times before they become curious enough to check it out. So it might help to have similar covers on all your books. Then if a reader sees one cover somewhere, and sees another elsewhere, they might think it's the same book and wonder why it's suddenly appearing everywhere...? And that it might be worth looking into why it's so ubiquitous lately. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
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Why is artificial intelligence being used to write books instead of for promoting books?
This is so bizarre to me. True writers love writing, so why would we want to surrender the best part of the process to machines and software?
Meanwhile, the worst part of writing is the marketing and discoverability, so why aren't programmers designing AI specifically and solely for promotion? The software should be making every book go viral, or at least putting every book in front of its intended audience. Instead, it's stealing all the humanity and originality from our work and replacing it with formulaic, plagiarized sameness. ʕʘ_ʘʔ
This is so bizarre to me. True writers love writing, so why would we want to surrender the best part of the process to machines and software?
Meanwhile, the worst part of writing is the marketing and discoverability, so why aren't programmers designing AI specifically and solely for promotion? The software should be making every book go viral, or at least putting every book in front of its intended audience. Instead, it's stealing all the humanity and originality from our work and replacing it with formulaic, plagiarized sameness. ʕʘ_ʘʔ
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Does an author really need a website today? HuffPo and Jane Friedman think so. All I know is it really annoys the crap out of me when my favorite authors don't have one. Yes, Donna Tartt, Ottessa Moshfegh and Susanna Clarke, I'm looking at you. Here's mine.
A website is a place to bring everything relevant about your work together in one place instead of scattered across social networks, enabling readers to find what they're looking for quickly and easily. It's where current readers and future fans will come to find out more about your work. In short, your site's a great way to brand yourself and get people interested in your books. And unlike social networks, it's something you control.
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A website is a place to bring everything relevant about your work together in one place instead of scattered across social networks, enabling readers to find what they're looking for quickly and easily. It's where current readers and future fans will come to find out more about your work. In short, your site's a great way to brand yourself and get people interested in your books. And unlike social networks, it's something you control.
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The Anarchist
5/25/18 11:39 am
Between 1894 and 1907, anarchists assassinated the President of France, the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the King of Italy, the Empress of Austria, the Prime Minister of Spain, and the President of the USA. Anarchists are the terrorists of their day, and unknown to English farm boy Theo, his best friend Ian is one of them.
Duped into aiding in an attack, Theo flees the country before the police link him to the crime. Leaving his fiancée behind, he heads to America to work in his uncle's vaudeville theater until things blow over back home.
But America proves just as dangerous. When his uncle turns him into a matinee idol in the emerging silent movie industry, it puts everyone in the theater in jeopardy, especially Theo's new partner Adeline, a singing star with secrets even more disturbing than his own.
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