HeyJaredTable of Contents: 1. Writing 2. Publishing 3. Notes
All things writing and publishing. Notes from a decades long creative life.
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A Praise Song to Human Editors (opens the original)
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As I wrote in my last post, AI is extremely chatty. Any writer who’s received one of those spam messages urging you to connect with a famous author or get a book promotion package you never requested, will see that the fulsome praise of your work can take an entire page not to mention minutes of your precious time. Recently, I got an invitation from an AI generated scam focused on editing my published picture book<a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Lucy+and+Henry+Are+Twins&i=
Chatty GPT (opens the original)
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For everybody except those hiding under a rock, it’s impossible to avoid AI these days. As I wrote recently, my first job in the morning entails clearing my inbox of a number of AI generated “offers” to promote my work, host me on a podcast, connect to me as a fellow writer (imagine Stephen King, Garrison Keillor or Frederik Backman reaching out to little old me), sponsor me at a book festival, feature me on book clubs with names like Boozy Book Club, Books Before Breakast and Women Love Books,
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