Building a presence online without losing your mind or your time. LinkedIn, profiles, personal branding, and a clear-eyed look at which platforms are worth it. Plus why a book beats a thousand posts for real authority.
AIPlatforms now stamp AI labels on posts automatically, and they're catching human artwork, sofa pillows and writing. Here's why the labels misfire, why the appeals seem to be decided by machines, and what authors can do about it.
AIA fan artist found her painting of two DC superheroes copied with AI. Here is what copyright protects in fan art, why a lawsuit rarely works, and how the thread turned on the one person who disagreed.
AIA writer admitted his AI-assisted pen-name books outsold his own work, and a writing group told him he was no author, had no ethics and would have his name spread offline. Authorship belongs to whoever owns the book, whatever tools…
Book MarketingA Buy My Books flowchart works because it says the ask out loud and lets readers laugh with you. Here is mine, what has sold my books over the years, and how to build your own.
Critique GroupsYou'd think writers would be kind to each other. Writing groups are some of the cruelest rooms online. Why rejection, fear and status drive it, why the polite groups don't help either, and what a good group looks like.
AEOQuora used to be the smartest room on the internet, with real experts answering under their real names. Then it paid writers like me for questions, cut that pay to almost nothing, cut its moderators, filled up with AI answers…
AI WritingBig Facebook writing groups promise help and deliver pile-ons. A beginner asks an honest question and gets insulted, an author asks for a cover vote and gets called a thief, and any mention of AI starts a brawl. Here's why…
AlgorithmsOnly 17 percent of time on Facebook goes to friends' posts now, by Mark Zuckerberg's own testimony. My reach slid for years and then fell off a cliff everywhere at once. Here's why social media sucks, what fills the feed,…
ADHDSocial media feeds hold attention the way a hypnotist holds a subject: steady rhythm, no stopping point, and a reward just often enough to keep you under. The people who built them said so, and in 2026 a jury agreed.…
AEOReddit runs on unpaid volunteers, sells what its users write to Google and OpenAI, and has turned into a target for bots and marketers because AI search cites it more than almost any other site. Here's why it sucks, and…
AI WritingRichard Lowe's third regular appearance on The Impossible Puzzles Show with Mike Merkur: the four-day week, clients who run revisions through AI, guests who want free advertising, why people who tried writing with AI hire a ghostwriter, giving advice with…
AISomeone in a self-publishing group asked why anyone cares if other people use AI to write books. Under the insults were three answers that hold up, several that don't, and a writer who quit because everyone assumed his books were…
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