What’s New at The Writing King: Week of November 1, 2026

Nov 5 · Artificial Intelligence, Writing

AI Terms Every Writer Should Know, and Why Each One Matters

This week, fifteen AI terms explained for writers, from context windows to RAG, and what each one means for your manuscript.

Nov 5 · Business, Careers

Working While Sick: What 24/7 On Call Cost Me

This week, why working while sick is a staffing failure dressed up as commitment, told through the calls I took at my wife's bedside.

Nov 4 · Artificial Intelligence, Publishing

He Banned AI From His Writing Group. His Own Cover Got Called AI Slop.

This week, Richard Lowe looks at a writing group that banned AI after its own admin's hand-painted cover was called AI slop, and why guessing makes a bad rule.

Nov 4 · Cybersecurity, Publishing

Who Writes the Fake Fan Mail Authors Get? Inside the Scam Compounds

This week, a novelist's fake fan mail traced back to a walled compound in the Philippines, and what that tells every author about the flattering emails in their inbox.

Nov 3 · Business, Thought Leadership

Joe Rockey: Ghostwriting His Book

Joe Rockey runs Elite Business Cruises and wrote Casino Sales Master, and he is now writing his second book with Richard Lowe as his ghostwriter. On his fifth appearance on the show they cover why he refused a template business book, how the interviews and chapter reviews work, where AI helps and where it doesn't, and how to promote the finished book.

Nov 3 · Business, Thought Leadership

Darrell Stern: Stop Being Invisible, Become Unmissable

Darrell Stern grew up in show business, voiced Scooter Computer on Schoolhouse Rock, and now teaches business people acting and storytelling for video. He talks with Richard Lowe about marketing the problem you solve, the situational avatar, building 60 landing pages and a video library for a Colorado auto shop, the Jeep death wobble video behind $7.9 million in repairs, and where AI video is taking storytelling.

1/10Nov 6

Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)

Richard Lowe reviews Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) and rates it 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A thin plot, a paper-thin villain, terrible editing and cinematography, and Will Smith and Martin Lawrence at their worst.

Nov 7 · Observances, Writing

Diwali: The Festival of Lights and the Story Behind the Lamps

This week, Richard Lowe marks Diwali with Rama's homecoming, the poet whose grief over a dead bird began the Ramayana, and the Gujarati merchants who bless a blank ledger on Diwali night.

Nov 5 · Observances, Writing

Anti-Communism Week: Remembering the Writers Communism Silenced

This week, Richard Lowe marks Anti-Communism Week by remembering the writers communist governments jailed, exiled and silenced, from Solzhenitsyn to Liu Xiaobo.

Nov 5 · Observances, Writing

Vesuvius Day: The Teenager Who Wrote Down Pompeii’s Last Day

This week, Richard Lowe marks Vesuvius Day with the teenager whose letters are the only eyewitness account of Pompeii's last day, and the AI reading Herculaneum's scrolls.

Nov 5 · Observances, Writing

Voyager 1 One Light-Day: Fifty Years to Travel One Day of Light

This week, Richard Lowe marks Voyager 1 reaching one light-day from Earth, the Pale Blue Dot, and the Golden Record, a letter to a reader nobody knows exists.

Nov 1 · Ghostwriting, People

How to Turn Your Expertise Into a Book People Want to Read | The Expert Method

This week Richard Lowe was a guest on The Expert Method with Ian Gatzke, talking about finding the book inside an expert's knowledge, why a memoir is never the whole life, good endings, and using AI as a tool, not a writer.