A tech revolution brings changes to the world that are unpredictable. Our first exposure to AI has been chatbots. Very clever chatbots! They’re getting better all the time at conversing as if they’re human. They rewrite emails and summarize subjects and write computer code. Those are impressive tricks but I get it, you’re not convinced…
AI is going to change things that you use every day. The changes will be profound, perhaps more fundamentally important than the internet or the computer or the iPhone. The speed at which things change will be faster than anything you’ve ever lived through before. You don’t believe me. That’s okay, I’m used to that….
Let’s talk about writing a novel. Jim and I sat down to write Uncommon Scents three years ago. We thought we knew what that meant. We had a firm understanding that it would require a lot of words arranged sequentially. We knew words. We hoped that was enough. But then we remembered: punctuation! We stocked…
There are two secrets to becoming a bestselling author. (1) Be fiercely talented. (2) Release your first book no later than about 1990. Today? The odds are roughly zero that you will sell a lot of books if you’re working on your first book now. They’re not exactly zero. That’s an exaggeration. They’re just so…