Tag: Kindle Direct Publishing
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More Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, May 21, 2023, or: I Will Be Getting Royalties Soon – But I Can’t Plan on Going House Hunting Just Yet…
One thing that did cheer me up today is that while I was writing Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, May 21, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second, Amazon sent me two emails to inform me that I can expect to receive at least two royalty payments. One is for the Kindle e-book edition of…
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‘Love Unspoken, Love Unbroken’: A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Stephen King
Last of a series: If you’re a regular visitor to this space, you’ve noticed that I’ve been “collaborating” with Microsoft’s OpenAI “Bing Chatbot” by asking the artificial intelligence to rewrite passages from Reunion, my novella about love, loss, time, and regret, in the styles of well-known authors, including: I am doing this little experiment for…
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‘The Cheerleader’s Kiss’ (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Erica Jong)
Fifth in a Series of Reimagined Versions of a Scene from Reunion: A Story I wrote Reunion: A Story myself. I put it on Amazon in the summer of 2018, when the world was burning and I was feeling old. A paperback from CreateSpace, an e-book from Kindle. A story about love and loss, youth and…
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‘The Final Embrace’: (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Anais Nin)
Fourth in a Series of Reimagined Versions of a Scene from Reunion: A Story Hey, you. Thanks for reading this. It’s Friday, April 14, 2023, and you know what that means. It’s #FlashbackFriday. Let’s go back to the last day of school, when we were young and stupid and brave. When we thought we could do…
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‘A Farewell to School’: Bing AI Chatbot Reimagines a Scene from ‘Reunion’ as Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to School Microsoft’s OpenAI/Bing Chatbot, in the style of Ernest Hemingway First in a Series of Reimagined Versions of This Scene I gave the yearbook to Ann Saroyan. She was a cheerleader. Not anymore. She wanted me to sign it. I wrote: To Ann Saroyan: You were good in English. It was all…
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‘A Visit from the Dream Squad’ (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Jennifer Egan)
And for my last post for this “Hump Day” (Wednesday, April 12, 2023), I present to you another take on the dream sequence from Reunion I shared yesterday. This time, though, I asked Microsoft’s OpenAI (aka Bing chatbot) to rewrite this scene (which was the first bit of the story I started writing way back…
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Questioning Our Own Crusade: Bing AI Reimagines ‘Reunion’ in the Style of Edgar Allan Poe
As you know, acting on advice from my former journalism adviser and mentor, Prof. Peter C. Townsend, I recently revised and re-published Reunion: A Story, a novella that I originally wrote in 1998 and self-published in 2018 through Amazon’s CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (paperback) and Kindle Direct Publishing (e-book). Although Reunion is a work of…
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A Scene from Reunion: A Story…As Reimagined by Bing AI’s Chatbot in the Style of William Shakespeare
Written by Bing AI Chatbot, in the style of William Shakespeare The school bell then did ring, Breaking silence with its dinging sound, Startled, Marty removed her arm from my wing, I took a step back, relief and regret abound. “Well,” I said in my best Harrison Ford voice, “This is it, sweetheart,” I picked…
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On Writing & Storytelling: One Chapter Ends; Another is in the Wings
The Wait is Over “For a while” is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At least by the person who’s waiting.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun My package with my copy of the paperback edition of Reunion: A Story arrived just a few minutes ago. I had been…