What’s New at The Writing King: Week of September 27, 2026

Oct 3 · Artificial Intelligence, SEO

What Does AI Say When Someone Searches Your Name?

This week, what Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT say when someone searches your name, and how to check and fix it.

Oct 2 · Artificial Intelligence, Writing Craft

It’s Not X, It’s Y: The AI Tell Shakespeare Wrote First

This week, the AI tell Shakespeare wrote first: why chatbots overuse "it's not X, it's Y" and why a sentence pattern proves nothing.

Oct 2 · Artificial Intelligence, Technology

Who Gets Rich From AI Data Centers? The Local, National and Global Economy

This week, who gets rich from AI data centers: county tax windfalls, thin payrolls, state tax breaks, bubble worries and the global race to build.

Oct 2 · Artificial Intelligence, Society

Are AI Data Centers Bad for the Environment? What’s True and What Isn’t

This week, the real numbers on AI data centers and the environment, and which claims hold up on both sides.

Oct 2 · Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity

AI Data Centers and Geopolitics: Chips, China, Spies and Power

This week, the geopolitics of AI data centers: chips, China, smuggling, espionage, Taiwan and the race for power.

Oct 2 · Fiction, Writing

How to Write a Plot Twist Readers Never See Coming

This week, how to write a plot twist readers never see coming, and why every good one is hidden in plain sight.

Oct 2 · Artificial Intelligence, Publishing

AI Derangement Syndrome: Who Cares If the Cover Was Made With AI?

This week, AI Derangement Syndrome, the AI book cover fight, and why the only question that matters is whether the book is any good.

Oct 1 · Book Marketing, Publishing

Book Ads Getting Clicks but No Sales? The Problem Is the Page

This week, why book ads get clicks but no sales, and what to fix on your product page before spending another dollar.

Oct 1 · Memoirs, Writing

Can Writing a Memoir Make You Sick? The Toll Nobody Warns You About

This week, why writing a memoir can make you sick, why it heals some people, and how to protect yourself while you write.

Oct 1 · Personal Growth, Writing

When Caregiving Ends and the Words Won’t Come

This week, why writers stop writing when caregiving ends, how long it lasts, and how to find your way back.

Oct 1 · Writing, Writing Craft

Do You Need a Writing Buddy? What Works and What Doesn’t

This week, whether you need a writing buddy, how to find one, and what to do if you work better alone.

Oct 1 · Book Marketing, Publishing

Can You Publish a Clean and a Spicy Version of the Same Book?

This week, whether you can publish a clean and a spicy version of the same book, and the safer ways to give readers both.

Sep 29 · Business, Personal Growth

Matt Hawksley: Learning in the Open

Matt Hawksley spent 20 years in supply chain logistics before a 40-day trip across North America set him on the path to founding Leadogo, a reinvention consulting and coaching firm. He and Richard Lowe trade stories about taking chances, the cost of vanity metrics, and why a book becomes the foundation for everything else.

Sep 29 · Business, Technology

Riley Kaminer: AI Says It in Three Times the Words

Riley Kaminer has covered tech, startups and investors as a journalist for 15 years and ghostwrites short-form content for entrepreneurs and investors. He and Richard Lowe compare notes on why AI writing runs long, drifts and says nothing, and what early-career professionals lose when AI does their thinking.

Sep 30 · Fiction

Anna: American Journey

Anna: American Journey, book two of Deanna Bennett's Anna Immigration Trilogy, takes Anna from the Statue of Liberty through Ellis Island to a train to Chicago and a secret that endangers hundreds of lives.

Sep 30 · Fiction

Anna: American Dream

Anna: American Dream closes Deanna Bennett's Anna Immigration Trilogy, following Anna through World War I, the great influenza epidemic and the fight for her own independence between 1914 and 1919.

Sep 30 · Memoirs

The Year of Firsts

The Year of Firsts is Deanna Bennett's memoir of the first year after her husband Tom's death, tracing each milestone holiday from sorrow toward a new life on her own.

Sep 30 · Memoirs

Anna’s Daughter: The Memoir of Helen Dragunas

Anna's Daughter is the memoir Helen Dragunas began and her daughter Deanna Bennett finished, a nonfiction follow-on to the Anna Immigration Trilogy about a Lithuanian immigrant family's climb out of poverty.

Sep 30 · Fiction

Anna: Going to America

Anna: Going to America opens Deanna Bennett's Anna Immigration Trilogy, the story of a fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl crossing to America in steerage in 1914, drawn from the life of Deanna's own grandmother.

Sep 29 · Business, Ghostwriting

What Pain Are You Solving? Guests, Free Advice and the Socratic Method | The Impossible Puzzles Show, Episode 248

On The Impossible Puzzles Show episode 248, Richard Lowe and host Mike Merkur talked about AI-driven revisions, podcast guests who want free advertising, the Socratic method, and starting every sale with the customer's pain.