Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
I have like one line in the space regency about Longbourn having a drawing room with turquoise walls and pink furniture, but Midjourney kind of ran amok with the idea when I prompted it.
I had to use “Vary Region” on this image. Vary Region is a Midjourney tool which keeps most of the image intact and only changes one area in it. The first image below is the revised image, the second one below is the original. Can you see what was changed?
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: Spot the Difference” →From the space regency, a brief bit of scene setting and the image which helped me visualize it, although you can also see where I chose to ignore it:
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: Reception Area aboard The Last Repose” →Sometimes I use Midjourney to brainstorm what settings in my novels look like. And sometimes that works, and sometimes, as with this alleged depiction of a stable aboard a steampunk airship, it really doesn’t.
-First off, I think my books are all in Kindle Unlimited now, free to anyone with a subscription to KU. If you see any sign that they are not in KU, please let me know in the comments.
–Undead Flight (Hunter Healer King Book 2) is now in the hands of my proofreaders. Barring complications, should be ready to publish by Christmas time. Ebook cover is done; blurb is done with AI help (stay tuned, my post on the blurbing process will be out tomorrow. Print cover is dependent on my final cleanup of the manuscript to determine page length.
-Also started Hunter Healer King Book 3 by writing a fairly dark and distressing scene from the last third of the book. This is kind of suboptimal, because stitching together scenes written out of order tends to add (wo)manhours to the first draft process, but I hadn’t figured out the opening scene at that point. I don’t know when it will be released but I know that I am aiming for Christmas of 2025.
-I have had a sci-fi Pride and Prejudice retelling in development for a long time; finally got the first scene down. No projected completion date at this time. My main inspiration for this concept was, weirdly enough, Star Wars: A New Hope. If you dig deep enough into the filmographies of the supporting cast, you will find one with a Pride and Prejudice connection in his earlier career. Regrettably, the catchy working title explicitly references Star Wars, so the official title will probably be something rather sedate of the “Pride and…” format.
-New ebook covers using AI art for Shadow Captain and Spider Star are done; still need to do new paperback covers for them, and ebook/hardcover for the 2 in 1 volume for the duology. Projected release date for the 2 in 1 is first/second quarter of 2025.
-Early stages of AI art covers for the Jaiya Series and Ancestors of Jaiya series. No text layout yet. A four in one of Ancestors might come out in third quarter of 2025; a seven in one of the full metaseries might be sometime in 2026 but a lot could go sideways between now and then.
This seems to be a purely or nearly purely AI construct, with human prompting and editing, but I thought it pretty amusing.
I did a Midj thing based on a joke about Elon Musk, Techlord of Mars, and an internet friend with a twitter account very kindly decided to circulate it. Thank you Foxfier!
So… Because of the Cybertruck, the phrase "Techlord of Mars" was uttered.
— FoxFier (@FoxFier3) July 3, 2024
With people who have access to AI art.@elonmusk , behold Midji's interpreting "elon musk as a high tech barbarian warlord of mars, style of Frank Frazetta –ar 2:3 – Image #1" pic.twitter.com/CFaxwlXVuU
(Note: in this piece, I link to a lot of websites that I’ve played with at different times. This is to allow the reader to make up their own minds about these things. No endorsement is intended, except of course when I am linking to my own books. If I didn’t like them, I wouldn’t publish them.)
First off, what we see today is not truly artificial intelligence, in the sense of “artificial sapient beings capable of exercising judgment and choice.” ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and their many cousins and descendants are Large Learning Models (LLMs), software that has been programmed to extrapolate statistical information from the dataset it is given and offer randomized responses to human commands based on the dataset and the extrapolations. The results are only as good as the initial programming, and the dataset. And in terms of output, they’re only vastly more complicated versions of the random generators available at Seventh Sanctum and similar websites for more than a decade. Here are the situations in which I personally have used LLMs:
Continue reading “Thoughts About LLMs, aka “AIs”” →-Wolf’s Trail, Hunter Healer King, Book 1 is in the hands of my proofreaders as I speak.
-When I get it back, I will be editing it instead of writing for NaNoWriMo.
-I am also trying to write a prequel short story for an anthology.
-I have a draft ebook cover, and raw materials for the paperback cover.
-I have vague ideas for Hunter Healer King, Book 2.
I have many dream houses, this is one of them that I made using Midjourney. We start in the entry hall…
To our left, a doorway leads into the kitchen/breakfast area, to our right, the tv room…
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: When Gothic Meets Midcentury Modern” →
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