AI
How to Write Science Fiction With AI (Without the AI Mush)
Ask an AI to “write a science fiction story” and you’ll get something. It’ll have a spaceship, probably. Someone will gaze at the stars. Everything will be resolved neatly in the last paragraph. It won’t be something anyone wants to read twice. The good news is that the problem isn’t really the AI. It’s the […]
Amazon Affiliate Marketing on Pinterest: A Practical Guide
Ask most people where they’d go for free traffic and they’ll say TikTok, Instagram or Facebook. Ask the people quietly making money with Amazon affiliate links and a surprising number of them will say Pinterest. There’s a simple reason. On most social platforms people are passing time. On Pinterest they’re planning: a kitchen makeover, a […]
Broken Affiliate Links: How to Find the Money Your Old Content Is Losing (and Get It Back)
Somewhere in your back catalogue there’s a post, a video or an email that’s still getting clicks today. Traffic you earned months or years ago, still turning up every morning. The question is where those clicks end up. If you’ve been promoting affiliate offers for more than a year or two, there’s a good chance […]
How to Choose the Right Sales Angle Before AI Writes a Word
Last week I needed a name for a new product, so I did what most of us do now. I asked ChatGPT. Then, for good measure, I asked Claude. They picked different names. Fair enough. So I showed each one the other’s reasoning. They both switched sides. Two very capable AI models, two completely convincing […]
How to Write Narrative History: A Practical Guide for Authors
Most people who say they’d like to write a book don’t actually want to write a novel. They want to write about something that happened. The war they’ve read about for twenty years. The disaster they can’t stop watching documentaries about. The expedition, the siege, the trial, the family story that turns out to be […]
How to Create a Digital Product in a Weekend
You don’t need a course, a team or three months. Here’s how to pick, build, price and launch your first digital product in a single weekend. Most people who intend to create a digital product never create one. Not because it is hard. Because the intention gets replaced, very early on, by a much more […]
How To Keep Every Reader You Find
The Author Newsletter: How To Keep Every Reader You Find (And Always Know What To Send) You spent months writing the book. You got it published. You even found some readers. And then they vanished. Back into Amazon. Back into Facebook, TikTok, Wattpad, Medium or wherever they happened to find you. The next time you […]
How to Sell Printable Games for Kids
The same printable children’s game sells to parents, teachers and party planners – if you write three listings. Here’s how each buyer differs. Say you’ve made a printable board game for children. Dinosaurs, maths questions on the cards, aimed at six to nine year olds. Perfectly nice thing. Who buys it? Most people answer “parents”, […]
How to Publish Christian Fiction on KDP: A Practical Guide
Christian fiction has its own category tree, its own reader expectations and its own communities. Here’s how to publish into it so readers find you. Every piece of KDP advice tells you to find an underserved niche. Then everyone goes and looks in the same three places, finds them thoroughly served, and concludes the whole […]