Writing Margaret M. MacDonald Writing Margaret M. MacDonald

It's not a warning, it's not a prediction, it's a response

I have been thinking about this one for quite a while and finally managed to put it into a few too many, slightly rambled, words. Hopefully they make sense to others who might have been pondering upon similarly dystopian topics.

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Writing Margaret M. MacDonald Writing Margaret M. MacDonald

Not All Spams Are Created Equal

What began as a P.S.A. for my fellow authors became a bit of a rant against the lazy, lying and manipulative nature of A.I. marketing. Someone asked what difference it made if “it’s all spams,” but by that logic so are all my query letters. Yet without my human generated queries I wouldn’t have a published book for the A.I. slop slingers to target their marketing at. We cannot start classing real human to human communication (even in its e-sales form) in the same category as this L.L.M. nonsense. That’s how the robots win.

Stick through the whole video to see what the very human and humours way I’ve chose to respond and take on the challenge I’ve presented if you can. A book bearing my own human I have always held my pen wrong signature is on offer.

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Three more questions I've been (fairly) good at answering

These are the three most often asked questions I’ve gotten about The Phoenix Effect book series. Here is a compilation of my best attempts at (fairly) eloquent answers.

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