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Six Claude Prompts That Get You Unstuck, and Why the Order MattersDogpiled Over AI Art at the Renaissance FaireClaude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for WritersTrump’s AI Force Is a Fire Department With No Fire CodeThe Hugging Face AI Agent Attack: An Operations ReadingMonthly or Milestone: How Ghostwriting Gets BilledWhen Your Own Memoir Sounds Like BraggingWhat It Costs to Fix an AI-Written ManuscriptWhen Your Memoir Should Be a NovelThe Clients Who Pay and VanishWhat Belongs on a Copyright PageThe One-Hour Call Before I Quote Your BookThe Work You Would Never Have StartedWhat an AI Detector Score on Your Manuscript Is WorthWhen a Client Thinks the Ghostwriter Used AIThe Quotation Marks That Get Authors SuedBehind the Book: The Mysterious Island, Neb’s SideHow to Organize Decades of Memories Into a MemoirWhy Rotten Tomatoes Sucks: The Score Does Not Mean What You ThinkWhy Amazon KDP Sucks: They Terminated My Account OvernightIngramSpark: How I Publish Now and WhyWhy Fiverr Sucks for Ghostwriting: The Buyer’s SideWhy eBay Sucks Now: A Seller’s Numbers and a Buyer’s WarningThe Ghost Story TraditionThe Gothic TraditionThe Christmas Ghost Story TraditionResurrection as a Narrative StructureBooks to Give a WriterThe Beach Read ArgumentWhy It’s a Wonderful Life Failed on ReleaseWhat to Read in SpringWhat to Read in SummerWhat to Read in OctoberHow Warner Bros. Dismantled a $17 Billion Cartoon EmpireThe Imaginary Scarcity TrapThe Graph That Goes Vertical Is Usually Somebody Else’sThe Disasters That Happen to Ordinary PeopleSubstack Is Not Collapsing. The Promise Was.Toba: The Winter That Almost Ended UsJay Stifflemire: Nothing Ever Gets Written DownGeorgie-Ann Getton: I Forgot I Had Free WillAI Detection Cannot Be Evidence, and Publishing Is Using It That WayAI Consciousness Left Philosophy and Entered the LaboratoryThe Office Block Where the Bedrooms AreThe Web Got Fenced: What AI Search Costs Small SitesBlack Tuesday: The Web Ring War Nobody Outside It NoticedWhat the AI Visibility Industry Sells, and What the Evidence SaysBlack Tuesday: The Original ring-master.net Page, 2000Behind the Book: Peacekeeper, The Dissolution WarsBehind the Book: Publish Your Book

Six Claude Prompts That Get You Unstuck, and Why the Order MattersDogpiled Over AI Art at the Renaissance FaireClaude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for WritersTrump’s AI Force Is a Fire Department With No Fire CodeThe Hugging Face AI Agent Attack: An Operations ReadingMonthly or Milestone: How Ghostwriting Gets BilledWhen Your Own Memoir Sounds Like BraggingWhat It Costs to Fix an AI-Written ManuscriptWhen Your Memoir Should Be a NovelThe Clients Who Pay and VanishWhat Belongs on a Copyright PageThe One-Hour Call Before I Quote Your BookThe Work You Would Never Have StartedWhat an AI Detector Score on Your Manuscript Is WorthWhen a Client Thinks the Ghostwriter Used AIThe Quotation Marks That Get Authors SuedBehind the Book: The Mysterious Island, Neb’s SideHow to Organize Decades of Memories Into a MemoirWhy Rotten Tomatoes Sucks: The Score Does Not Mean What You ThinkWhy Amazon KDP Sucks: They Terminated My Account OvernightIngramSpark: How I Publish Now and WhyWhy Fiverr Sucks for Ghostwriting: The Buyer’s SideWhy eBay Sucks Now: A Seller’s Numbers and a Buyer’s WarningThe Ghost Story TraditionThe Gothic TraditionThe Christmas Ghost Story TraditionResurrection as a Narrative StructureBooks to Give a WriterThe Beach Read ArgumentWhy It’s a Wonderful Life Failed on ReleaseWhat to Read in SpringWhat to Read in SummerWhat to Read in OctoberHow Warner Bros. Dismantled a $17 Billion Cartoon EmpireThe Imaginary Scarcity TrapThe Graph That Goes Vertical Is Usually Somebody Else’sThe Disasters That Happen to Ordinary PeopleSubstack Is Not Collapsing. The Promise Was.Toba: The Winter That Almost Ended UsJay Stifflemire: Nothing Ever Gets Written DownGeorgie-Ann Getton: I Forgot I Had Free WillAI Detection Cannot Be Evidence, and Publishing Is Using It That WayAI Consciousness Left Philosophy and Entered the LaboratoryThe Office Block Where the Bedrooms AreThe Web Got Fenced: What AI Search Costs Small SitesBlack Tuesday: The Web Ring War Nobody Outside It NoticedWhat the AI Visibility Industry Sells, and What the Evidence SaysBlack Tuesday: The Original ring-master.net Page, 2000Behind the Book: Peacekeeper, The Dissolution WarsBehind the Book: Publish Your Book

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Series: Dogpile

Dogpile is my series on online pile-ons: what happens when a writing group, fan page or review site turns on one person, why the mob gets it wrong even when the target made a mistake, and what one decent voice can do to stop it. They’re getting worse, and somebody should say so.

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Review Bombing: How It Works and How to Survive It

February 9, 2026

Review bombing is the practice of flooding a product, service, or creator with coordinated negative reviews that have little to do with actual quality. Here is where it hits hardest, the structural conflicts that make it worse, how to spot…

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Inside the Ultimate Flame 5 Bold Strategies for Digital Insults

I’ve been gang-attacked on Facebook, buried on YouTube, and harassed on LinkedIn

February 10, 2026

One Facebook comment, and within hours hundreds of strangers were piling on, screenshotting, sharing, hostility for its own sake from people who had never met me. Deleting the thread changed nothing. Here is what online mobs across Facebook, YouTube, and…

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Dogpile

Dogpile

June 21, 2026

Two authors asked ordinary questions in writing groups. One wanted a vote on three cover mockups, the other wanted honest readers for a book he had just published. Neither did anything wrong, and both got a stoning. A pile-on has…

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A man in period costume stands among Renaissance faire artisans and their handmade crafts at a festival.

Dogpiled Over AI Art at the Renaissance Faire

September 25, 2026

A longtime fan posted AI-generated tribute images to a Texas Renaissance Festival group, and more than a hundred people dogpiled him. He broke the group's unwritten rule, and the community has good reasons for it. None of that earned him…

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