This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 14
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 12, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes fae princes, telekinetic witches, angels, a demonic private eye, a couple of different dystopian futures, vampires, werewolves, and zombies.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 7
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 5, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a dystopian future, murderous creepy mermaids, grim reapers, sexy aliens, and a six-thousand-year-old werewolf named Cain. Yup, THAT Cain.
Midjourney is a great new AI image generator — if you’re a fan of Discord
A new AI image generator called Midjourney offers images comparable in quality to Dall-E 2, but is open to the public.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 31
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Free cool space backgrounds from NASA
All NASA images are available for free, for any use — including commercial. They’re particularly great for background images on sci-fi author websites.
First anthology released
MetaStellar’s first anthology is out today, a collection of short stories from our first year of publication.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 29, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes mystery, galactic empires, a mermaid, dark magic, post apocalyptic survival, and lots of romance.
10 tips for the free Craiyon AI image generator (formerly Dall-E Mini)
I’ve been collecting AI-powered image generation tools for the past year and one has become my go-to over the past couple of weeks — Craiyon (formerly Dall-E Mini).
The best video from this month’s AuthorTube conference
One of the videos from this year’s AuthorTube Writing Conference was so impactful that it deserved to be spotlighted in its own article. The main idea? Stop doing all the things.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 24
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 22, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes wizards, space fleet battles, bridges to other worlds, a sexy shape-shifting crocodile, and dragons.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 17
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 15, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes post apocalyptic multi world traveling, cozy magical mystery, horror, werewolves, high fantasy, and a superhero.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 10
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 8, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a zombie PI, a supernatural bounty hunter, witches, spaceships, vampires, epic fantasy, and an EMP apocalypse.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for July 3
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 1, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, demons, dragons, spaceships, and Celtic gods.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 26
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 24, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes fairies, vampires, werewolves, a magic school, demons, and highlands time travel.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 19
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 17, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, zombies, vampires, gothic horror, romance, monsters who live in the woods, and lots of magic.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 12
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 10, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, nordic myth and legend, vampires, time travel, action and adventure, wizards, and space exploration.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 6
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 3, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes space opera, angels and demons, witches, fairies, and plenty of sexy supernatural action.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 29
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 27, 2022
We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space-traveling telepaths, mystery-solving witches, vampires, zombies, FBI agents tackling supernatural horrors, and a lust demon.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 22
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 20, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, dragons, witches, King Arthur’s knights, space battles, and a lonely rutabaga.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 15
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 13, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list has time travel, cozy magical mysteries, fallen angels, shapeshifters, and a dying civilization at the end of the universe.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 8
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 6, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes space fleet science fiction, dystopian futures, urban fantasy, romance, and both historical and urban fantasy.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 1
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 29, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes fallen goddesses, gothic mystery, cozy mystery, alien romance, and retold fairytales.
Google offers free AI-powered audiobook narration
Today, Google announced a free service to convert your EPUB file into an audiobook, using its AI voices.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 22, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a dystopian future, a metaphysical fantasy, romance, witches, werewolves, vampires, and a dragon rider.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 17
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How to create short URLs to promote your work
Link shortening services can help you track which of your book marketing efforts are actually working.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 15, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, metaphysical fiction, romance, science fiction adventure, sword and sorcery, and a dystopian future.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 10
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 8, 2022
We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, changelings, a cozy magical mystery, a supernatural apocalypse, and a snarky magical private eye.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 3
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 1, 2022
We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has galactic empire science fiction, occult suspense, a cozy paranormal mystery, vampires, genetic alteration, and lots of romance.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Mar. 27
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 25, 2022
We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has time travel, mystery, magic, myth and legend, and lots of fantasy.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Mar. 20
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What is the metaverse?
The term “metaverse” was first coined in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash. He used it to refer to an immersive, virtual reality world in which people are embodied as their avatars.