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.

Was on another channel that posted a basic prompt to use with Muse for a 30 day launch. I'm giving away secrets here but try the following in Muse (or really an agent should Work) I just posted this on another site after they had tried to put up a use for muse for a 30 day launch. Send this to your muse agent and see what happens ( Inamed Mine Edgar from the movie "Electric Dreams"): Here’s a rewritten, expanded prompt you can give your agent Copy everything below into muse: Act as a senior book marketing strategist, social media director, launch manager, and copy chief. I’m launching my book, [Book Title], a [genre/category] book for [target audience]. First, read the full manuscript I provide. Then build a complete 30-day launch campaign and a 45-day content calendar. Primary objective: Create a full, successful 30-day book launch campaign, with platform-specific social media posts and newsletter drafts, supported by comparable-title research, keyword research, hook mining, social listening, traction verification, and a final review-and-fix pass. 1. Read and analyze the manuscript - Read the entire manuscript before planning. - Identify genre, subgenre, target readers, positioning, promise, transformation, pain points, themes, tropes, controversies, quotable lines, stories, data, frameworks, checklists, myths, mistakes, emotional beats, and practical takeaways. - Find the strongest hooks for this genre: contrarian takes, surprising facts, emotional stories, reader questions, “before/after” outcomes, mistakes, secrets, frameworks, and high-shareability moments. - Extract 20–50 potential hooks and organize them by platform, audience, and launch phase. 2. Research comps, keywords, and social traction - Identify 5–10 comparable titles (“comps”) published in the last 3–5 years in the same genre/category. - For each comp, research: - Title, author, publisher, pub date, price, formats, rating, review count, Amazon BSR/category rank. - Amazon categories, BISAC subjects, SEO keywords, hashtags, TikTok/Instagram search terms, Google Trends, YouTube/Pinterest keywords. - Social media handles and platforms. - What they are posting: top-performing posts, hooks, captions, formats, posting cadence, hashtags, CTAs, offers. - Whether they are actually getting traction: engagement rate, likes, comments, shares, saves, views, watch time, profile visits, link clicks, growth, sentiment, and quality of comments.

Somehow I forgot to say 3dbookmock.pro (no AI) is live and free for now to create 3d Mockups. You just upload your cover, spine and back graphics and can create whatever view you want ***** It was asked on another channel if anyone had tried this site for 3d Mockups https://trythreed.com/m/novellas These are a breeze and no reason to pay any service. I sent this answer there so I'm sharing it here to.. and of course... something new to add to WCP's image tools so I just tried this in chatgpt with this: i need a prompt to put a cover image on a 3d mockup of a book or a series box of an [x] number of books. it needs to create a spine with the title and authors name from the cover image. the book size is a standard 6x9 paperback book with a 1/2" thick spine. the view should b 3/4 view showing the spine at the left of the cover image. can you give me the prompt and create the image? It gave me the second image below. ( I should have said on a white background) So i asked: "can i have the prompt that created this?" Absolutely. Here is the prompt that created the mockup, cleaned up slightly so it’s easier to reuse: Create a cinematic, high-end photorealistic 3D paperback book mockup using the uploaded cover image as the exact front-cover artwork. The physical book is a standard 6 × 9 inch trade paperback with an approximately 0.5-inch spine. Show the book standing upright in a three-quarter view, with the spine clearly visible on the LEFT side of the front cover. The front cover should remain the dominant visible surface. Preserve the uploaded cover artwork faithfully: - Deep red and black leather-like texture - Ornate antique gold corner filigree - Crimson occult/ritual compass design - Large silver-white title typography - Red ampersand and decorative flourishes - Gold subtitle - Framed author-name panel Do not redesign or substantially alter the original cover. Create a matching professionally designed spine based on the cover artwork.