WordCrafter updates! In your User Settings>Appearance tab (new) you can now change the colors of WordCrafter.Pro There are a number of light/dark presets and the ability to set your own! Default typefaces! also hiding at the bottom of your User Settings>Appearance tab (new) you can now change the typeface and size of a number of the screen elements. NEW PLUGIN: WRITERS DESK! I freely admit I borrowed this one from someone else because it was very close but better looking than another plugin coming soon. This is available at the pro level and gives you a different way to track and see what you are working on. You can get in and look at it today. Tonight I'll be doing a walk through video recording of everything it does and how it works for both your projects here and elsewhere. I'm trying to get more agnostic with the new tools so they will work for a wider audience. At some point in time WCP may get a new sister app that will not have any AI at all for those users that also want the rest of the tools here. WCP was originally just supposed to be an online replacement editor for Scrivener because I had so many issues moving from device to device and continuing to work. Let me know what you think and what changes need to be made or added Oh and there was a laundry list of minor fixes, tweaks, and behind the scenes changes that just make things look better or run smoothly and unified the appearance of some of the drop down boxes and displays (like calendars).

The October Invite‑a‑thon — Build Your Email List One Tiny Step at a Time I'm going to ask you to do something terrifying today. It will take five seconds. Maybe ten if you have to dig through your browser bookmarks, which, let's be honest, is where most of our good intentions go to die. Open your email service provider right now and write down your exact subscriber count. Not the number you wish you had. Not the number you'll have once you "get your act together." The number that's sitting there at this exact moment, doing nothing whatsoever. If you don't have an email service provider at all — if the whole idea of a newsletter has been sitting in the back of your brain like a dentist appointment you keep rescheduling — then today's mission is even simpler. Go to MailerLite.com and sign up for their free plan. It will take three minutes. You don't need a credit card. When you're done, your subscriber count will be exactly zero. And that, right there, is the entire point of the October Invite‑a‑thon: zero is a perfectly fine place to start. A quick note on platforms: If you already have an account somewhere — ConvertKit, Substack, beehiiv, whatever — stay there. The point is to use what you have, not to switch platforms. In this challenge, I'll be showing MailerLite steps because it's the most beginner-friendly free option (its free tier accommodates up to 250 subscribers with full features, and it's very easy to set up). But every tip and template will translate to whichever tool you're comfortable with. The Problem Nobody Names Most authors I know are quietly terrified of their email list. Not of having one — of not having one. They know it's the one marketing asset they actually own. They know social media platforms can change an algorithm and make their followers invisible overnight. They know email converts at five to fifteen times the rate of a social post. They know all of it. And yet when I ask them how many subscribers they have, they either don't know or they mumble a number and change the subject.

And what is your favorite format? For me its never simple: Mostly on my android phone using: Cool Reader - ugly but will read a standard epub aloud Kindle App - far too many books locked behind the Amazon wall Barnes & Noble App - clean, easy, imports epubs I prefer epub for general reading, PDF for picture books, magazines, manuals And for comics I use perfect reader for cbz,cbr formats On my very old iPad mini almost always apples books and epubs And on my Windows tablet ( because I couldn't afford a new android tablet and this one was CHEAP) Kindle app, perfect reader, sublime text, and foxit PDF reader And yes there are a half a dozen very old actual Kindles running around the house. I read on two of them. My version do star Trek PADDs. Yeah I know I'm complicated ...and I have an idea..... But I need some answers. What apps do you like ? Where do you read Ebooks the most? What features would you like to see in an Ereader that you currently don't have? And even if you think you've guessed right, *just* another Ereader is NOT where I'm going with this. Remember my goal is to help you write the books AND sell more of them. Stay with me folks.

12:19AM right now and have to be in Taylorsville, KY this morning by 6:30AM to set for another craft show with my wonderful and awesome wife. While she was doing the last minute (always) creating and packing I did a thing.... I've been having issues with each of the AI's know different things because I work on different things or different pieces of the same thing and they get confused. For instance Gemini still thinks WCP only has the 33 original genres. Claude has missing skills. Manus has the pieces of 125 different projects and discussions, Chatgpt has, well very little... You can export your data from Claude and Chatgpt. Gemini requires using Google Takeout and is not getting everything. Manus is well. Manus.. he is his own beast. By moving all of my chats to a project I can open the project and send an instruction to zip up all chats with their attachments as individual .zip folders and download locally. I found a deepseek export plugin but it has to run on each chat.. working on getting claude to automate this. I then pulled all of these into a github report separated by project and area of interest and got this down to 16 channels. These will be further distilled to memories. WHY?? In this process I found over 60 projects I would like to review to make sure I pulled what I needed from them, I found really early book projects and even a couple of pretty cool games I wrote (tabletop - not online) that I had completely forgotten about. UGH. But now its searchable and Claude knows all the rest of the pieces that I was missing or forgotten. Tomorrow I'll start adding my notebooks. and have my second brain. and hiding in all of this was some things WCP was supposed to have added long ago. AND... I finished another Hollow Bean Short Story. "In a world where Mythical Entities walk the Earth if enough people believe in them, what happens when they only have one believer left?" Now for my next trick....

I don't think I want to build this... I've spent 5 days doing R&D and an immense amount of tokens across multiple AI's to do the research on what I was Calling the Authors Business Command Center (ABC for short). I did this because as usual somebody else has something like it but not nearly enough for a stupid cost. $500 for the first year and $99/mo maintenance or the one that sent me over the edge into deep dive mode $1500 for a custom setup and config and $297 a month. Friends, if I can get my book sales to that point I'll call myself a successful author. I'm currently at about $200 a month right now +/- and doing next to no marketing (this will change shortly...more on this some other time). I was thinking maybe $29 a month was right with a $20 a month add on for webhosting author pages. Not sure how the math would play out yet but indie authors generally cannot afford expensive solutions but do deserver elite ones. Below is the 5th iteration of trying to make something huge digestible and it still feels too big. Probably should be a kickstarter. Read through the pitch document and convince me to do it. The pitch will show that a number of the pieces are already there just not done yet. This would be a totally separate beast from WCP, BW, TC, 3DBookMock, etc.. but does wrap everything up in a neat little bow. After spending this much time with it...I do not think it's time. I think I'll do something smaller, lighter with some of the features it has. I'm going to split my time this weekend between training videos and polishing some of the things I've hinted at, promised, and have hiding in the wings that you know nothing about yet. I currently have 162 projects opened on my tag board, all author related. I think maybe this one will wait, unless I get convinced otherwise.