AI Photo Restoration for Your Book: Fix the Photo, Keep the Original
Restoring old photos for a memoir or family history book is fine, and AI makes it cheap. Clean up freely, check every face, label what you changed, and keep every original scan.
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Artificial IntelligenceWhat Does AI Say When Someone Searches Your Name?
AI Overviews now appear on plain name searches and summarize whatever ranks for you, old complaints included. Check what Google and ChatGPT say about your name, and answer the real questions on your own pages.
Artificial IntelligenceIt’s Not X, It’s Y: The AI Tell Shakespeare Wrote First
"It's not X, it's Y" is now one of the best-known signs of AI writing. Shakespeare, Lombardi and a pizza ad used it first. Why chatbots lean on it, how common it's become, and why a sentence shape is no…
Artificial IntelligenceWho Gets Rich From AI Data Centers? The Local, National and Global Economy
AI data centers are the biggest building boom in the economy. What they do for county budgets, jobs and power bills, how much of national growth they carry, whether it's a bubble, and which countries are cashing in.
Artificial IntelligenceAI Data Centers and Geopolitics: Chips, China, Spies and Power
AI data centers have become strategic assets. Chip export controls, the race with China, smuggling, a convicted spy, Taiwan, the electricity race, and what the Five Eyes intelligence agencies are warning about.
Artificial IntelligenceAre AI Data Centers Bad for the Environment? What’s True and What Isn’t
Does an AI prompt really drink a bottle of water? The real numbers on AI data centers: electricity, water, power bills, emissions, jobs and taxes, with what the critics get right and what they exaggerate.
Artificial IntelligenceAI Derangement Syndrome: Who Cares If the Cover Was Made With AI?
An author asked whether an AI cover makes an AI book, and the thread decided the whole book must be stolen. What AI Derangement Syndrome is, what readers think, and why the only question that matters is whether the book…
FictionHow to Write a Plot Twist Readers Never See Coming
A good plot twist is a surprise the reader could have seen coming and didn't. How to plant small hints, misdirect, avoid the twists that fail, and test yours with beta readers.
Book MarketingBook Ads Getting Clicks but No Sales? The Problem Is the Page
If your book ads get clicks but no sales, the ad did its job. The sale is dying on the product page. Covers, blurbs, AI branding and genre-hopping, and what to check first.
MemoirsCan Writing a Memoir Make You Sick? The Toll Nobody Warns You About
Writing a memoir can wear you down physically and emotionally, even decades after the events. A client who had to stop three chapters in, my own experience, and how to protect yourself.
Personal GrowthWhen Caregiving Ends and the Words Won’t Come
When caregiving ends, a lot of writers find the words stop with it. Why grief and burnout stall your writing, how long it lasts, and what kept me sane when my wife was sick.
Book MarketingCan You Publish a Clean and a Spicy Version of the Same Book?
Readers want clean editions of spicy romances, but two versions of one book on KDP can trip duplicate content rules. Amazon closed my account over less. Safer ways to offer both.
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