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NotebookLM “Liked” my Seven Coins Series
I ported a couple of my books into Google’s NotebookLM and asked it to produce an overview. Here’s the full audio of what it produced. The original article detailing this experience is on my Substack: AuthorTech.
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Book List
Currently in Print Here’s where you can find my published works (and audiobooks): The Seven Coins: Convergence – eBook or Paperback The Seven Coins: Silke’s Story – eBook or Paperback The Last American – eBook or Paperback Unchipped: The Last American – eBook or Paperback. Audiobook at: In Progress I’m actively writing the following, all…
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The Next Story in the Series
I thought I had a real head start on my next story while The Seven Coins: Convergence is in Alpha Reads. I was wrong. Even though I have a completed draft, it was written before I really zeroed in on some key character attributes and motivations. It was crafted through a different lens than that…
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The Seven Coins Universe
As I’m approaching the finish line on the second book in my series (chronologically, the fourth), I thought it might be helpful, especially for Alpha and Beta readers, to see my vision for the series. The series arc spans a score of millennia and multiple universes, but it does, in truth, center around a single,…
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How a Story Starts
Want to know how a story idea starts? For me, ideas for the Seven Coins series have emerged over the past three years. In that time, I’ve tweaked and morphed the global story maybe a dozen times. I like things to interconnect and overlap, so mapping out ideas and their connections is important. Last night,…
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Closing in on Close Third Person: Learning from Dan Brown
In writing The Seven Coins, I’ve had the hardest time getting the Point of View (PoV) right. I started with an omniscient narrator, but he started getting a little snarky and my characters weren’t coning across well. Then I moved to what I thought was third person, but I was head-hopping. Head-hopping, I learned, is…