Scammers are getting so good, and AI is only helping! I used to get the occasional lovely note from a reader via my website. Now 100% of the 20 emails I get each week are from writing marketers and scammers. I got the above inquiry last week. Unlike the unbelievable situations where the head of a major publishing house emailed to beg for my next manuscript, or writing service people who promise I’ll gain 5 million followers by tomorrow, this one shows all sorts of finesse. It

Here’s a funny/not so funny thing about the writing/authoring/book business: many unscrupulous people understand how desperate authors are to get traction for their books and guarantee a winning promo campaign for the low, low price of ___. Here’s the newest spin, thanks to ChatGPT and AI in general: Those same scammers now send highly polished AI-generated letters filled with promises of overnight bestseller lists to authors in hopes they’ll send money. This trend started ab

AI is here to stay. The question is how to live with it, and all of the ethical, moral and economic decisions that implies. For starters,...