'World-class' is exactly the kind of wishy-washy subjective bullshit phrase that AI spews out. A good editor weeds out weak rhetoric and factual inaccuracies like this.

What tasks do you think an editor performs?

What makes them world class?

World class?

Whatever your views on AI, there's 1 thing it can't do - build an audience for your book.

Building the audience = proof of work.

Yes, authors can publish quicker, but all 8,000 books fail without anyone to read them.

Do the work or become the product.

#publishing #ai #spines

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a few reasons why:

- the technical learning curve to be on here

- the small userbase

- the unburdened ideology

- the lack of topics beyond bitcoin/nostr creates a vacuum that brings in information from elsewhere

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If we don’t care about X, we shouldn’t care about Redsky.

After all, they are just siphoning people from X…

Build for future generations 🙌

I have never asked for a donation but here it goes:

I host 4 relays now completely for free, they will always be free, on top of doing thousands of hours of open source work. I've never received a grant, I'm running purely on passion and principles here.

If you are enjoying my relays (WoT, Haven, Algo) - please consider making a donation to help cover the costs of my servers and bandwidth - the costs really add up 🫂🙏

/end e-begging

Is the public Netflix stream stress testing over yet?

⚡️🥊 Place your bets, folks—time’s ticking! Don’t let #FOMO ruin your fun! 😉

Jake Paul vs. #MikeTyson “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” ~M. Tyson nostr:note13llzrxfhkpseaha9m8yu8y0y9ys8rzqzq89x827ej3sxnsen657qghlyhe

Is there anyone who is *strongly* interested in being an early round beta reader for my sci fi manuscript?

Near-future sci-fi, crime/thriller/cyberpunk. A blend of action and multi-character depth, and moral analysis. The action is key and all, but alpha readers thus far cried at the character aspects; that's what hit them hard enough to care how they would engage with the action.

Strict Requirements for first-stage beta readers:

-I need to know/trust you personally, either in person or very well online with high reputation, to the point that I'd send an unfinished manuscript to you. There's no strict requirements, but if you know, you know.

-You like sci fi and/or fantasy books, and would be happy to read and offer objective (even brutal) feedback on a sci-fi action/crime thriller novel within the next month or two.

-You can comment or DM, for privacy sake.

That's a small group, but I'm putting it here on Nostr first for what I consider my pre-beta or readers. I will then expand 10x on Twitter and elsewhere for my full beta readers.

Meanwhile, I'm in the early revision stage. Manuscripts won't be sent out immediately. I'm still doing revisions and working with alpha readers, but I'm at the stage where I can start *planning* for the next step to see who might be interested to be early beta readers. Nostr folks get the exclusive early notice here.

I do tend to move pretty fast, though.

All pre-beta readers that provide meaningful input would be mentioned in the acknowledgement section, if the book were to be published, which of course I cannot guarantee will happen. I will only publish good books, one way or another.

But like, the alpha readers do like it. ;)

You didn’t get lucky.

You were smarter, had more conviction and bigger balls.

You earned this.