Getting in front of the AI Boom in Publishing
Years and years ago, I learned how to make ebooks. Ebooks function like websites, comprising of code. I had enough HTML knowledge to understand most stuff, and take a guess at what the rest was doing (albeit without sometimes really knowing why it was doing what it was doing). My former boss, who ran a small hybrid publisher, encouraged me to pursue it as a sideline, but I could see the way the technology was evolving. Software like InDesign allowed you to export files into ebook formats. They weren’t perfect incarnations, but if you knew enough you could go in and perform the fine tuning. I also knew it was…
The Writing Vulnerability
You know what a natural habitat for predators is? The indie publishing landscape. Yep. They’re after YOU. The predators will prey on your inexperience, exploit your naivety, and profit from your dreams. But you wouldn’t know any better, because predators aren’t vaudevillians. They don’t twirl handlebar moustaches and dress in black. They cloak their intentions with a smile, charm and seduce you with what you want to hear, and befriend you so that you couldn’t possibly imagine them ever wronging you. They will, however, if given the chance. And they exist in every facet of your writing journey. A Quick Aside on Rights and Royalties Self-publishing is a derivation of…