The Right to Learn the Hard Way
When a nine-year-old can't explain evaporation but her homework is immaculate, you have the Norway problem in miniature.
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The Chain of Custody of Words
What happens to writing after it leaves your hands? On prizes, courts, answer engines, and who gets to name the work.
Read more →To Prompt or Not to Prompt
On Katri Manninen, the ALLi AI policy, verbal fingerprints, and why the real question was never 'did you use AI?' but 'did you have anything to say?'
Read more →Why I Write
Every author needs an answer to why they write. Mine involves Orwell, Le Guin, Jurassic Park, and the disappearing freedoms we can't afford to lose.
Read more →Of Molotovs and Movable Type
On the new Luddites, the old Luddites, and why the printing press won the argument.
Read more →The Pirate Library in the Machine
The Baldacci lawsuit points to the real question for AI fiction: not whether machines can write, but what they were fed before they opened their mouths.
Read more →When AI Couldn't String a Sentence Together
AI-accelerated fiction is my game, but it started a lot further back than you might think.
Read more →The Night the Internet Gods Turned on Me
An attempt to follow an author on Amazon turns into a small Greek tragedy about passwords, passkeys, and divine obstruction.
Read more →The Mayfly Mutiny is out today
A new world was promised. The terms were not. The Mayfly Mutiny is out now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback.
Read more →Welcome to the Blog
The blog is now open. A place to think on the page about writing, publishing, and everything between the ideas.
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