The ad that built a huge chunk of our business made people mad. It asked, flat out: Is M.D. Cooper the next Larry Niven? Sci fi readers had OPINIONS. The comments lit up. And the clicks came. Here's the lesson I teach now: the goal of an ad is not to be liked. The goal is to be noticed. A polite ad that nobody reacts to is invisible. And invisible doesn't sell books. What's an ad idea you've been too nervous to run? Tell me. Let's pressure-test whether it's actually too bold, or just bold enough.

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New skill drop: Beat Sheet Reverse Engineer! (Available in the PREMIUM ACCESS FOLDER!) If you've ever tried to read your own manuscript and lost track of what's actually happening chapter by chapter , after months, or even years, later.... (My dear problem child series) The Beat Sheet Reverse Engineer reads your manuscript and produces a clean Word document that maps every single scene in reading order. For each one, it shows you three things: ACTION — what physically happens EMOTION — the keynote feeling the scene carries STAKES — what changed by the end ⛳That last one is the important one. If a Chapter nothing new happens or is discovered, That scene gets flagged in red. Passive protagonist, information dump, emotional loop where your character spirals without going anywhere — all of it gets flagged so you know exactly where your momentum is dying before you go in for revisions. To use it, just drop your manuscript file into Cowork and say "make a beat sheet." That's it. It'll hand you back a reference doc you can keep open alongside your manuscript while you read. Think of it as a map of your own story — useful before a read-through, during a revision pass, or any time you've been staring at your chapters for so long you can't see the structure anymore.