Is AI really good for anything?

Are you a centaur or a cyborg? That might be an odd question to ask, but a study partnered with Harvard university found people who are utilizing AI in their businesses fall into one of those two categories.

A centaur is someone who has clearly defined boundaries about what the human's job is and what the computer's job should be.

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How Tumblr/WordPressDOTcom Selling Your Data to AI Changes The Website Game

Note: This blog refers to WordpressDOTCOM which is their free website hosting platform. Wordpress dot org remains free and open source and is not included in this. I'll be blogg

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Authors Should Care About The 2023 Hugo Awards

A report was recently released on File770 and the Genre Grapevine that begins to hint at what happened with eligible works being left off the 2023 Hugo Awards ballot. At best it looks like the committee exercised self-censorsh

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Three Things to Know Before Submitting a Story

Now that I'm looking at short fiction markets again, I'm starting to look at a lot of publishing house websites. There's a lot of good information out there about things to check for before submitting your work such as the rights requested, the publishing experience of those working behind the scene

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Who are you letting into your online “living room”?

Recently I heard an excellent analogy that our online social media profiles are like an online "living room". You wouldn't open the door and let just anyone into your physical living space, so why would you do it online? It

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Think you’re bad at marketing? I don’t think so.

When I talk with authors, whether it's for #WriteTalkWednesday or just in community, one of the things nearly everyone says is "I'm bad at marketing." And it's true for many writers, heck many people in general, promoting our work and tootin

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How can we market when the world is burning?

Global crises can make us wonder when is it appropriate to mention them in terms of our book marketing. How much is too much, especially when for fiction authors, many of them write (and readers read their books) as an escape? Authors are afraid of re

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How To Decide Which Social Media Platforms to Use

With the recent news that X/Twitter is looking to charge all users a monthly fee; therefore, putting every single account behind a paywall, once again people are looking to recalibrate their social media strategy. Numerous Twitter competitors have popped up, th

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