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The Creative Penn
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. I was so scared of publishing it and when I was about to hit Launch on the Kickstarter back in February, my heart was hammering.
The Creative Penn
DECEMBER 30, 2022
I launched the book direct on my Shopify store, CreativePennBooks.com and sold it exclusively direct for a month before publishing it wide. I also wrote and published two short stories. I published 67 episodes of The Creative Penn podcast in 2022, and I'm so pleased that the show still resonates after more than 13 years.
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The Creative Penn
DECEMBER 10, 2023
What can authors and publishers do to ensure their books are still found in the new form of generative AI search? In terms of my personal experience, I’ve been interested in AI for creatives since AlphaGo beat Lee Sodol at the ancient Chinese game of Go in 2016, and I’ve been sharing interviews and resources here ever since.
The Creative Penn
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
From the headlines this week, “Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories.” [ The Guardian ] and “Hundreds of AI-written books flood Amazon.” [ The Independent ]. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. But as ever, the headlines are clickbait and we need to have a more nuanced approach.
The Creative Penn
AUGUST 11, 2023
So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Then I saw KDP, I saw that people were self-publishing, and I thought, well, I've always wanted to write a book. You know, I think I went through like 12 revisions of that book, then I published in 2003. I started writing at a young age.
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