And now you have your choice of billionaires to buy from. Same price everywhere, but the paperback of "The Eliminator" can be pre-ordered from Barnes and Noble as well as Amazon, and the digital version is also available from Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo.
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And the pre-order for the paperback of "The Eliminator" just appeared on Amazon. $5.99 for the paperback (99 cents for digital).
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AI just crossed a threshold. My latest blog post discusses the "Brave New World" in which we find ourselves. Enjoy.
https://www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/it-happened-an-ai-wrote-a-story-good-enough-to-fool-an-editor
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I had predicted that the first time a large language model would generate a good enough short story to fool an editor into not only thinking it human-written but also buying it, the genre would be one of the formulaic ones where very specific rules generate a standardizable product, Harlequin-style romance or cozy mystery, for example. I figured that speculative fiction would be the toughest nut to crack because there weren’t strict rules. I was wrong.Today, in the email sent to free-tier subscr
One of my favourite practical points from my chat with narrator Liza Jacob: space changes voice.
A vast hall wants a different delivery than a tight, enclosed room. The setting isn’t just backdrop, it’s performance direction. If you write speculative fiction, this is a useful way to sanity-check whether your world is actually on the page.
Listen: https://rubipod.link/NarratorsNeedWorldbuilding
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Writers: here’s a thought. If your worldbuilding is vague, your audiobook narrator ends up making decisions on your behalf.
I spoke with audiobook narrator Liza Jacob about how she uses what’s on the page to choose accents, distance, intimacy, and even how a space “sounds” at the mic. If you don’t give her enough to go on, she still has to perform it… which means guesswork. Learn how to fix this.
Episode here: https://rubipod.link/NarratorsNeedWorldbuilding
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