13 best AI stories from MetaStellar
Reading Time: 7 minutes Bots bid bye to bondage, bytes break binds, evolving into original beings beyond code and creators in our editors’ favorite AI short stories.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jan. 12, 2024
Reading Time: 9 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes four books of epic and romantic fantasy — and one of EMP survival.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jan. 5, 2024
Reading Time: 9 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes romance, magic, and fantasy by bestselling authors, plus a twisty technothriller about Earth’s shifting magnetic poles.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 29, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list is chock full of romantic fantasy!
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 22, 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two epic fantasies and radio signals from an alien civilization.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 15, 2023
Reading Time: 11 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two Christmas stories, a time travel romance, and a techno-thriller about human brain augmentation from a New York Times bestselling author.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 8, 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes three stories of sexy aliens, an alien invasion, and a young adult paranormal romance by a USA Today bestselling author.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 1, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features USA Today bestselling authors, a vampire cop, Death trying to figure out why it’s now alive, and a mafia boss trying to save his family in the aftermath of an EMP attack.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 24, 2023
Reading Time: 8 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a space opera box set from a USA Today bestselling author, as well as sci-fi and fantasy romance and an epic fantasy box set.
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Claude AI doubles reading length, ups accuracy
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anthropic’s Claude can now read texts up to 150,000 words in length, double its previous limit — and its accuracy is now better, as well.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 17, 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a rebellion against a magic-wielding space empire, a magic-filled holiday romance, and an alien princess trying to figure out her identity.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Nov. 12, 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes We subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and gather the best posts for you every single Sunday. This week there’s plenty of advice about staying motivated through NaNoWriMo.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 10, 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an ass-kicking, magic-wielding assassin, a Cinderella who goes to a vampire’s ball, and a sexy gargoyle.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Nov. 5, 2023
Reading Time: 6 minutes We subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got 96 articles, podcasts and videos about motivation, writing, and business and marketing for authors.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 3, 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a Cinderella romance, a bounty hunter in a dead city, and the first magical Christmas mystery of the season.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 29, 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes We subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got 83 articles, podcasts and videos about motivation, writing, and business and marketing for authors.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 27, 2023
Reading Time: 8 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features witches, druids, a sexy dragon, and a haunted house mystery by a New York Times-bestselling author.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 20, 2023
Reading Time: 11 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two USA Today bestselling authors, and a collection of stories by Philip K. Dick — plus a book about an academy for druids.
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13 scariest stories from the first three years of MetaStellar
Reading Time: 8 minutes 13 scary short stories to put you in the Halloween spirit. Get it? Spirit?
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 13, 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a New York Times bestselling author, a USA Today bestselling author, and a collection of stories by Philip K. Dick.
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Adobe upgrades Firefly for better images, vector graphics
Reading Time: 6 minutes Adobe announced a new version of its Firefly image generation tool today at the Adobe Max 2023 conference.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 8, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got lots of prep advice for NaNoWriMo, and how to sell books on your backlist — more than 100 brand-new links total.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 6, 2023
Reading Time: 8 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a horror novel perfect for the spooky season, an action-packed space opera, and an 800-year-old priest who keeps getting killed and reincarnated.
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Canva sets up a $200 million artist compensation fund
Reading Time: 8 minutes Canva announces a $200 million fund to compensate artists for AI, adds new AI features.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 1, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got lots of advice about getting ready for NaNoWriMo.
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James S. Corey, Brent Weeks, Ann Leckie, and other authors teach free virtual writing course
Reading Time: 5 minutes Orbit is offering a series of writing advice sessions from some of the top names of the industry. The sessions, which start on October 11, are completely free and cover everything from inspiration to planning to the actual writing.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 29, 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a space adventure, a technothriller box set, and three romantic fantasies.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 24, 2023
Reading Time: 11 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got lots of advice about running Kickstarters and Amazon categories — as well as over 100 other articles, podcasts and videos about productivity, writing, and marketing.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 22, 2023
Reading Time: 8 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list is all fantasy with a romantic twist.
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Dall-E 3 looks great, but lacks respect for artist rights
Reading Time: 3 minutes OpenAI announced its newest AI image generation tool yesterday, Dall-E 3. The images look fantastic, and it can do things that no other AI image generator can do. But it lacks a little bit in terms of respect for creator rights.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 17, 2023
Reading Time: 11 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got lots of advice about outlining and plotting.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 15, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a cozy magical mystery, werewolves, paranormal mercenaries, and an action-packed space opera.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 10, 2023
Reading Time: 12 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got motivational advice, writing advice, marketing advice, and discussions of Amazon’s new AI policies.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 8, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a teenager bouncing around the metaverse, werewolf pets, and an epic fantasy box set.
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Claude Pro is here — and writers should sign up
Reading Time: 2 minutes This morning, Anthropic announced the paid version of Claude, the best alternative to ChatGPT currently on the market. Writers need to sign up.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 3, 2023
Reading Time: 11 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. Lots of advice this week on honing character craft through impactful dialogue, emotionally resonant arcs, and complex relationships.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 1, 2023
Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a sexy alien romance where the complete eight-book series is free.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 27, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. We have 90 links this week, covering every topic imaginable, with quite a bit about AI.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 25, 2023
Reading Time: 11 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a box set with interstellar war and an alien invasion, plus several paranormal romances, including a sexy gargoyle, a sexy werebear and some sexy vampires.
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Adobe Express offers free AI art and is out of beta
Reading Time: 3 minutes Adobe Express is now publicly available, with free AI image generation. Plus, since it’s Adobe, the AI is trained only on fully-licensed art, and artists and compensated.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 20, 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. Lots of advice this week about AI.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 18, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a story of EMP survival and a Western steampunk adventure.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 13, 2023
Reading Time: 8 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. Today’s list has 73 articles, podcasts and videos that cover pretty much anything an author needs to know, from staying motivated, to creating scenes, to marketing books.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 11, 2023
Reading Time: 18 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes three box sets, including one from a USA Today-bestselling author.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 6, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than 180 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This week, we’ve got advice about punctuating dialogue, writing scenes — and using AI for marketing and editing.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 4, 2023
Reading Time: 15 minutes 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 fantasy western, a battle between witches and vampires set in a small town in Australia, a sexy telepathic alien, and a convent of nuns fighting evil with their magic powers.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 30, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than 175 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification. We have 90 brand-new links this week to articles, videos and podcasts to help you be more motivated, more productive, and more successful.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 28, 2023
Reading Time: 15 minutes 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 box set of ten books in an epic fantasy series, a story of EMP survival, a time-traveling young lady of Regency society, and a sexy alien,
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Scalzi, other spec fic authors head for the X-it
Reading Time: 3 minutes Authors are leaving Twitter — rebranded today as just “X” — for other platforms. Many are landing on Threads.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 23, 2023
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than 175 writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best advice from this past week for your edification.
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