BBN is a free newsletter about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways, as well as my take on the publishing industry and the writing life. | View in Browser | Sign up here Last month's newsletter on artificial intelligence (A.I.) brought lots of thoughtful comments. Keep those emails coming! This month I thought I'd do a quick follow-up. More, more I’m still not satisfied! Having consumed much of the internet, chatbots are now expanding their horizons by digesting print books....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
BBN is a free newsletter about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways, as well as my take on the publishing industry and the writing life. | View in Browser | Sign up here Another year, another newsletter. As I've said before, thanks for reading. It means a lot. Some great things are on the horizon which I will mention soon. . . . Last year I said that I might jump into the topic of Artificial Intelligence at some point and now is as good a time as any, so here we go― The...
2 months ago • 3 min read
BBN is a free newsletter about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways, as well as my take on the publishing industry and the writing life. | View in Browser | Sign up here In this newsletter, I talk about some interesting news on the book distribution front and present my holiday book sale. I’ll explain how book pricing works, and give a preview of things to come for my own work. Holiday book sale My books are distributed by IngramSpark and they’ve just announced a “Buy direct...
4 months ago • 3 min read
BBN is a free newsletter about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways, as well as my take on the publishing industry and the writing life. | View in Browser | Sign up here This month I’d like to talk about a court case that has been in the news of late, Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic, a class action lawsuit brought against the A.I. company Anthropic over the company’s use of allegedly pirated books to train its chatbots. The lawsuit 482,460. That’s how many creative works (novels,...
4 months ago • 3 min read
BBN is a free newsletter about my upcoming publications, appearances, and giveaways, as well as my take on the publishing industry and the writing life. | View in Browser | Sign up here Thanks for reading my first author newsletter. I’m hoping that with these letters I can interact with my loyal readers and bring them a bit of the “behind the scenes” life of a writer. It’s exhilarating, but frustrating. And pretty much everything in between. I also want to thank you for spending time with me....
5 months ago • 3 min read