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…
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The thought of sending a book out into the world is – if you think about it seriously – daunting. Who knows if people will like it? If they don’t, what are the greater implications? Can you continue to build your writing career? Are you set back so far that it’s beyond repair? How does any of this affect your confidence? The blazing success stories are few compared to the amount of books published that sell only moderately, or underperform. But step that back: just submitting a book to a publisher can be intimidating. Oh, you might brim with mindless enthusiasm before you know better, but then the rejections come.…