*AI and the Indie Author – Part 6: The Danger of Outsourcing Judgment
Why the writer has to stay the final authority. B.A. Bellec on the danger of letting AI make the calls that judgment should.
*AI and the Indie Author – Part 7: The Revision Process: Modulation
Modulation: B.A. Bellec on the tightly ruled, line-level AI edit that sharpens a draft, and why running it too early backfires.
*AI and the Indie Author – Part 8: Building a Marketing Ecosystem
How AI slashed the cost of experimenting, turning the novel into source material for a whole marketing chain, most of which failed, and a few of which stuck.
*AI and the Indie Author – Part 9: The Parts AI Could Never Write
Readers remember moments, not process. The blue spores, the cobalt haze, the piano scene three beta readers loved, the parts that came from Bellec that no prompt could touch.
*AI and the Indie Author – Part 10: Looking Back: Ethics, Creativity, and the Future
Why is AI held to a different standard than every tool before it? B.A. Bellec on ethics, creativity, and what comes next.
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Why the Press Release Isn’t Dead, Especially If You Wrote a Book
Readers now ask AI what to read next. PR pro Pam Perry explains why a press release is one of the best ways to get your book into those answers.
The Evolution of Our Approach to Writing
Your passion for writing doesn’t fade when life gets hard, but your reasons for doing it can shift in ways you never expected. In this candid reflection, AG Flitcher traces how personal loss and hard-won growth reshaped his relationship with the craft, all circling back to one deceptively simple question: “Why am I writing this?”
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The Lost Manuscript
James A. Hillebrecht wrote a manuscript in 1988, sent it out, got the rejections, and put it away. Thirty-five years later he pulled it back out, read all 350 pages in two days, and now he’s asking fellow writers a question he can’t answer alone.
The Strength in Being Different: Why I Stopped Waiting and Started Choosing
Lisa Brearley spent years being exactly what everyone expected, until one quiet question changed the direction of every decision that followed. If you’ve ever caught yourself waiting to feel ready, waiting for clarity, waiting for the “right time” to share your work, Lisa’s honest look at the bystander effect in your own creative life will hit close to home.
The Hollywood Illusion: What Film Taught Me About What Readers Actually Remember
Why does a single line or scene stay with us long after we’ve forgotten how a movie ended? Kay A. Oliver spent three decades in Hollywood chasing that answer, and what she learned reshaped how she writes fiction. Here she shares why readers cling to moments, not plots, and how to craft the kind that stick.
