You Already Said Yes to the Index
Every author group I hang out in runs the same ritual every week. Someone drops a screenshot of their copyright page into the chat that’s some variation of: “No part of this book may be used to train artificial intelligence.” Forty people pile in with “Stealing this!” Everyone exhales and goes back to writing, feeling […]
Claude for Authors, Part 3: Connectors, Skills, and the Plumbing That Makes Cowork Actually Useful
Last week I walked you through getting the desktop app set up, why Cowork lives there instead of the web, and what a terminal is for those of you who remember installing Oregon Trail from a floppy disk. (The number of you who DM’d me about dying of dysentery was deeply validating.) This week we’re […]
Claude for Authors, Part 2: Getting Set Up (And Why I Changed My Mind About the Desktop App)
Photo by Robynne O on Unsplash Last week, over 700 of you showed up for the AI for Author Business Summit. I had planned to pre-record some sessions to save my voice, but Anthropic kept shipping updates faster than I could finish a slide deck, so we did the whole thing live. My voice survived. […]
Claude for Authors: The Three Tools You’re Probably Only Using One Of
I’ve been getting the same question from about forty different directions since Ireland: “What is Claude Code and why won’t you shut up about it.” (Fair.) So I made two things. I’ve been getting the same question from about forty different directions since Ireland: “What is Claude Code and why won’t you shut up about […]
I Built the Thing That Replaced My Own Workflow
I’m writing this from Canterbury, which is where I usually post up after a string of conferences on this side of the Atlantic. (After Author Nation it’s my mom’s place in Lake Tahoe. After Europe it’s Canterbury. I have decompression spots the way some people have lucky socks.) This is where I process what I’ve […]
The Two-Word Conversation Happening in Every Indie Author Conference Hallways
Exactly six years ago, I was sitting in a B&B in Northern Ireland trying to figure out how to get back to the States. The world had other plans, and I decided it was safer to stay put. I stayed for four months. During that weird, suspended stretch of time, a group of author friends […]
Everyone teaches you what AI can do. Almost nobody teaches you where to draw the lines.
I’m writing this from a corporate apartment in Savannah that I booked because it’s in the same building as a Regus co-working space. I have a Regus subscription now — ten days a month in a private office in any country — and over the past two years, I’ve been rating their locations the way […]
The Newsletter of a Thousand Announcements
Actual representation of all the things I have to tell you this week. I sat down to write this week’s newsletter and realized I have no fewer than six things to tell you about, which means one of two things: either I’ve been wildly productive or I’ve lost all sense of pacing. (It’s both. It’s […]
[Poll] You Pick the City, I’ll Bring the Automations
Photo by Lucas Beck on Unsplash I need your help picking cities for the rest of 2026. I’m planning more 3-day intensives (more on those in a sec) and I want to go where you actually are — not where I think you are. I’m not being coy about this — I will literally book […]
Agentic AI Is Coming for Knowledge Work. Writers Still Get to Be Weird.
Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash Last week I mentioned that I knocked off about four months of work in a weekend using Claude Code. I migrated 32,000 images, audited a Ghost website, updated plugins across 60+ sites, cleaned up AWS storage buckets, migrated courses, and fixed bugs on StorytellerOS while I was eating lunch. […]
