Hi all, I joined two BookFunnel promos this month to collect interest in my novella that I successfully & proudly wrote thanks to WCP! If anyone is interested in seeing these promos and helping me get my allotted “clicks” on my promo links message me. I will send you the links. (I want to be respectful of our promo rules here.) The two categories are Free Witchy Reads and Free Clean Fairytale Retellings. (I will always return the favor in the future. I love supporting fellow authors.) 💕💕🎃💕

This is an interesting take on an over discussed topic. The transcript argues that traditional publishing has a double standard around AI: industry insiders may use AI in their own writing while discouraging authors from doing the same. It challenges the idea that AI-assisted writing is inherently illegitimate. Key points: - Authorship is about creative authority, not generating every word. Authors have long used editors, researchers, ghostwriters, and collaborators without losing authorship. - AI training is not the same as piracy. Courts distinguish between building libraries from pirated books and using lawfully acquired books for transformative fair use. Learning from existing works is also how human writers develop. - AI can support legitimate authorship, including for people with disabilities or those facing barriers to polished prose. Wealthy authors have long used human assistance; AI democratizes access to similar help. - Institutional definitions of authorship are problematic. Redefining authorship to require a certain amount of human-generated text gives publishers, agents, and organizations power to police creative processes. - Secrecy and compliance distort behavior. Many authors hide AI use due to backlash, while conscientious beginners may avoid AI unnecessarily. Publishers and agents may use AI themselves while enforcing strict bans on authors. - Distinguish creative authority from contractual authority. Publishers can set submission rules, but those rules should not define legitimate authorship universally. Authors should set their own ethical standards. - Copyright and authorship are separate. The U.S. Copyright Office distinguishes human-authored expression from AI-generated content, which creates practical problems for collaborative works, but copyright frameworks should not define who qualifies as an author. - Authors should retain creative control, use AI only when it serves the project, investigate contract clauses, and avoid letting fear of judgment hinder their development.

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.

Last Day to get WCP EVERYTHING for $22 a month / $200/Year Start your 14 day trial at WordCrafter.pro and check it out and lock in the current rate. I'm happy to give help as needed. ****** More new stuff rolling out shortly built i the last few days all built but not tested and once tested will be included into WCP. More to come but I was binging and do need to slow down. These came from my work in two other tools and just needed to get out, there;s a much longer list. BookCrafter, BookWeaver, the StoryDB in Narrativecrafter, genres, tropes, prose quality ALL have been updated. Currently 52 books have been created with BookWeaver.pro (Separate App--equivalent to Bookcrafter in WCP). New skills - Adaptation Room: turns a novel into a screenplay or stage play, chapter by chapter, against a page or runtime budget. Optional shot lists and blocking. - Hook Forge: mines hooks from the manuscript, writes new ones, builds teasers, fits hooks to each channel, and repairs weak ones. Keeps a Hook Bank. - Revision Planner: turns every source of feedback into one ordered, tracked revision plan with work orders. - LEXA Naming Studio: names checked against real US birth records by birth decade, cast collision checks, invented-language names, pen names, and a Name Registry. Replaces the old banned-names list with tiered flags; rolling that out to the seven skills that carry the old list is still your call. - Author Brand Profile: one saved brand profile per pen name, with a tool that checks copy against it. Existing skills upgraded - Story Development Room: Premise Review with an Engine Test for length fit, and motifs planned as arcs. - Prose Doctor: every edit can be kept or rejected individually, with a protect list and Word tracked-changes export. Also fixes your two incomplete installed copies. - Book Marketing Team: reads the brand profile, and turns tropes into KDP keywords, categories, and ad angles. - Hook Forge v1.1: uses the brand profile. - Book Merch Team: A+ Content planning and special editions (edges, foil, endpapers, costing). -

Somebody posted a list of ideas.... Michael copied this list and handed it to his projects team in Claude to do a gap analysis against what we already have... They found FOUR new things to fill in gaps... Michael added FOUR more and one of the suggestions lead to.... Anthology, Series, flash fiction and short story updates to BookCrafter and BookWeaver Michael opened two more discussion windows to talk about 3 new ideas... TarotCrafter is essentially done but Michael has to wire it into the system by hand EmpireCrafter got six new features (and it's not released yet)... The 141ways site is done but Michael has to wire it into the system by hand Manus 2.0 came out with a whole host of new things to play with Sonnet 5.5 was released, haven't even looked at it yet GPT's are going away, Skills won! LM Studio released BIONIC (I missed this one) Bionic looks like Claude code and runs locally. Free coding?? hrmmm... Michael may never sleep again... Video will now be integrated into WCP (it was only a thought before)... Which means THREE more new skills. Scripts, Screen Writing, and Adaptation (in progress)... Which gives us Scenes to Cinematic Video, Scenes to Vertical Dramas, Better Scenes to Keyframes (and a few more things) Side by Side editing is coming in WCP. Original with markup and changes with options Michael needs more Claude time, unless Bionic pans out Michael should sleep more...Someday... But tonight is woodworking in the shop. I have a couple of things to make for my lovely and wonderful wife... Don't forget WCP price change is coming in TWO Days. You only need to be trialing before then to keep the current rate and ALL Features including everything in WCP above. Some of the above will be for sale separately, some will be free in skool at the upper tiers or at different user levels if you just participate in the discussions. Attached is a short video I made with manus, testing something (of course) of my desk as it has evolved in the last year and where it could end up. This was 3 real pictures, the last put into google pics new tool with the prompt "my desk as a starship bridge console". Google Pics gave me the next 3 key frame images. I set it at 20 seconds and create music. Then Manus asked " Would you like to make the final image more holographic displays?" I answered " Create and add a final image with more holographic displays. Extend the time length to 30 seconds and start the music ten seconds later". I really liked the music but its a minute long and given a minute I'm not sure how far thew desk would evolve.