Tag: Revising
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Using AI Art to Illustrate a Children’s Book: Confessions from a Reluctant Collaborator
When I first started working on Doris’s New Home—the illustrated children’s companion to my novel Nothing Really Bad Will Happen, about a young Jewish girl fleeing Vienna in 1938—I didn’t expect to have so many sleepless nights over the pictures. Words? Sure, I know how to choose a verb, tighten a paragraph, untangle a timeline.…
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“Done-ish”: That Time I Finished My Book—Until Catherine Seeley Said Otherwise
I typed “The End,” pushed back from my desk, and smiled. My manuscript was done. Complete. Finished. I even told people so. Silly me. I was about 75% through reviewing my “finished” manuscript—one final read before sending it off to my writing coach for a developmental edit—when I decided to double-check a small fact. You…
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Rufus, the AI Chatbot: A New Assistant in the Quest to Sell Books (and Everything Else!) on Amazon
Have you heard of Rufus? Amazon has a new feature on its sales pages which helps customers make purchase decisions by answering questions that are not necessarily found in the product description. Since I am pretty much still compulsively checking my Amazon sales stats, (Yeah… yeah… I know things slow down after the initial launch.)…
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