Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
The Albion Courier, Features Desk
[During our video conference with Elizabeth Bennet, Member of the House of Resources for Longbourn Mining Company, she offered to show us around. What follows is an edited account of that tour, with images drawn from Longbourn’s public broadcast archive.]
The first thing you see when Elizabeth Bennet turns the camera toward Longbourn’s Great Hall is the mural above the staircase, except it is not a mural, but a curved screen showing a color enhanced view of deep space, relayed from a telescope on the asteroid’s surface. The effect, at the scale of a room that could comfortably hold a hundred people, is somewhere between sublime and vertiginous. The stars move too slowly to perceive.
Continue reading “Inside Longbourn: A Visual Tour” →
To the extent that I have a philosophy of AI use, it comes to this: I want AI to handle the tasks I don’t enjoy. Falling in love with a set of characters, following them through their adventures, figuring out how the world around them works…to me, those are the fun parts. If I care enough about a story to want to see it on Amazon with a proper cover and a nonzero chance of someone besides me reading it and caring about it, I want to draft it myself. Hunting for typos and logic fails and things I did wrong? Not the fun parts, which is why I have been using AI more in the revision process. Writing a fanfic nobody but me wants to read? Fun but not as fun as it might be, plus it takes mental energy away from writing things that I might be able to sell. Hence, the Fanficcing with Claude label that turns up in this blog. And then there’s marketing.
Marketing does not come easily to some writers, and I am one of them. When I’m happy with my writing, my opinion of it sounds too egotistical to share. When I’m unhappy with it, my opinion is too depressing for words. As for keywords, blurbs, covers, search engine optimization, noun phrase optimization, my brain tends to lock up or go down unhelpful rabbit holes. So, I turned to AI, first for cover art and blurb help and then for other marketing tasks. So, a quick rundown on what I’ve done:
Continue reading “AI as Writer’s Assistant: Marketing with AI “ →I put a short story with a lousy cover up on Amazon. A couple of months later, I took it down again. It was October of that year before I published my first novel. and now, well…
I would lying if I said I’d found fame or fortune doing this. But it’s been a fun adventure and I plan to keep on with it.
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