New, Our AI Monthly Newsletter: Get Skills, Get Empowered

If you’re intrigued by AI, you’re not alone. Artificial intelligence apps like ChatGPT are now mainstream. What does this mean for writers and other creatives? For the past couple of months, I’ve spent hours each week exploring artificial intelligence news, views, and applications. If you’d like to learn more about AI and how you can use it, read on. AI … Read more

Your Writing Business: Make Friends With AI, There’s A Bright Side

AI seems to be everywhere since the release of ChatGPT. But should you be using it in your writing business? Before we go on, if you’re unfamiliar with AI, here’s a mini-glossary: AI: artificial intelligence. ChatGPT: Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer. ChatGPT is an AI app. It’s a text generative tool, developed by the company OpenAI, and released in November 2022. … Read more

AI And Writing: Time For Writers To Upskill To A New World?

Spooky. If you’ve been hoping that AI would just go away and leave you to write in peace, recent news stories suggest that it might be time to pay attention. And upskill. I’m not suggesting that you use ChatGPT or a similar generative text AI tool to do your writing for you. If you’re a professional writer, you know better, … Read more

Self-Publishing Your Books Your Way: 2 Savvy Ways To Increase Sales

Today, self-publishing is big business. Wondering how many books Amazon has on its Kindle store? An estimate: 48.5 million. Amazon stopped making figures available several years ago, but it’s estimated that around a million new ebooks are published on the Kindle Store each year. With the rise of generative AI apps like ChatGPT, those numbers will increase. Self-publishing authors are … Read more