Mini-Copters To The Rescue? To soar like an eagle over traffic jams. Sounds like a Utopian dream. This concept works beautifully — until there’s more than one of these gyro birdies flying over a city. Then a few more. Soon hundreds. After that, what, thousands?Congestion on streets with cars is...
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Predictim Halts Launch But Raises Alarms. Who wouldn’t want AI to choose which babysitter you hire? Predictim thought it was such a great idea it staked its business model on it. “Piece of mind for families” is their comforting motto. At Least They’re Honest About Questionable Claims Except their Disclaimer reads...
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NEEDED A MOCKUP JUST TO SEE HOW IT MIGHT LOOK So…my first experience with a cover designer on Fiverr. In one word: bleh. In good part it was my fault, because I was in a hurry and didn’t want to spend more than $150 Cdn total for all four unique...
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So, been using HootSuite for a while to help me centrally manage my social media postings. It’s tagline is, after all, “Manage all your social media in one place.” Thing is I have mixed opinions about this tool. It does enable me to organize my Tweets, Posts and Updates in...
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My initial #pre-marketing efforts are bearing fruit. As a novice novelist-in-process I consider Twitter a key social media property. @MarkDSwartz is gaining some traction. Here’s how I increased twitter organic impressions 2,000 percent over a 28 day period, May to June 2017. Not Starting From Scratch Note that I’d worked...
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Of all the pre-writing promotional tactics at my beck and call, deciding on my social media strategy tops the list. Which for me is kind of a shame, since I’m not thrilled about the constant self-boasting – and artificially polished imagery – that saturates the web. Is this something of...
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And so it begins. The adventure I’d been forced to defer for years is upon me. My keyboard is getting a workout. There’s the 15 pages of “What If’s” to help spark plot and character concepts. Another 10 pages of “Starting Stuff,” in which I outline my idealized reader (curious...
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Was pondering the naming architecture further. What about “Categorate?” Sounds more professional – but still awkward and contrived – compared to Categorify (or Categoryfy, or Categorafy, all three of which I’ve registered. Will continue to explore the naming hierarchy for my self-publishing brand. More thoughts on naming may seem like...
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I’m thinking of substituting one of the following terms with regard to branding my self-published fiction: cogenre genrafy cosubject subjectafy cocategory categorafy coversioning versionafy Will be giving this more consideration in near future. For now I just wanted to get these terms into the public sphere in case I need...
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Climate Fiction. I first heard of it just today, though apparently it’s been around since concerns over climate change first emerged. That’s decades ago. Remember Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring? Back in 1962 she sounded the alarm over our planet’s altered ecosystem. She was labelled an alarmist by many. However today...
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