Available on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3s478Pu Baen.com: https://www.baen.com/an-illustrated-guide-to-ai-prompt-mastery.html
Behind the scenes, Jack isn’t just my friend, the CorreiaTech Marketing Daimyo, and the guy who keeps this blog running, he’s also got a real job as a professional marketing dude and has been an artist for decades.
When the AI art first started taking off Jack got really into it, and also observed a lot of indy authors trying to input prompts in the hopes the computer would spit out a useable book cover. Once in a while it might, but the rest of the time it was sort of good except things like the people had weird hands and extra elbows growing out of their necks. So Jack started using prompts to build bits which he could then photoshop into cohesive covers.
So Jack started putting together a guide book of the hundreds of prompts and styles artists could farm. When Toni at Baen heard what he was doing she offered to publish it through Baen’s webscriptions, because she recognized that this new tech would be a really valuable tool for artists.
I’m really excited for Jack. Check it out, and please tell your friends!
I actually put this on my blog for me, not for you, so I can just glance at my phone instead of trying to use their app. When I’m not on these panels I’ll probably be in the Bard’s Tower booth signing books. (and I just noticed they spelled my name wrong) đ
Todd McCaffrey, James A. Owen, Brandon Sanderson, Michael A. Stackpole, Larry Corriea, Kaylynn Flanders, J.R. Johansson Thursday September 22, 2022 :: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
I have been looking forward to reading this book but my early review copy that was supposed to get here while I was at FenCon didn’t make it in time. But this is the release week so I’m plugging anyway!
This is book 3 in a series of fun alternate histories where George Armstrong Custer lives and goes on a wacky series of adventures.
More fantastical than Harry Turtledove, funnier than Eric Flint, and with definite shades of The Wild, Wild West, the celebrated Custer of the West seriesâpraised by Winston Groom (Forrest Gump), Stephen Coonts (The Flight of the Intruder), and Rob Long (Cheers)âcomes to its shockingâand hilariousâclimax as George Armstrong Custer, surprise survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, unearths the lost civilization of Atlantis and battles the evil Atlanteans for the fate of the world.
NEVER FEARâARMSTRONG IS HERE!
A mysterious gunman meets Marshal Armstrong in San Francisco with tales of lost gold, unrequited revenge, and an unsolved mystery in Mexicoâs Chihuahuan Desert, inspiring Marshal Armstrong, Ambrose Bierce, and the rest of Armstrongâs loose band of soldiers of fortune to plunge into an adventure of fierce gunfights, criminal conspiracies, an innovative submarine, and an underground, secret superpowerâthe remnants of Atlantisâthat aims to subvert Western civilization!
Can the malevolent, scheming Atlanteans be stopped?
Thatâs the mission for George Armstrong Custer, traveling incognito as Marshal Armstrong Armstrong, knight-errant.
Full of suspense, non-stop action, chivalric romance, and effervescent humor, this is a great place to enter the Custer of the West series!
This one is going to be real brief because I kind of forgot about it, and I leave for FenCon shortly.
Appearances
I will be signing books tomorrow night in Dallas
Then I will be the Guest of Honor at FenCon. There is a fan meet up. The whole WriterDojo crew will be there and we will plan on recording a few episodes with other guests. I’ll also be running another Gritty Cop Show game where they auction off seats for the con’s charity.
The next weekend I will be at Salt Lake City FanX and you can find me at the Bards Tower booth which will be selling my books.
Writing Stuff!
I am finishing up Tower of Silence, book 4 in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior. It comes out in April. I’m behind on this one because I made a plotting mistake earlier on and had to go back and rearrange a bunch of stuff. Those are the breaks. Sometimes when you are writing a fantasy series, you just walk up the wrong hill and then once you realize it you can either walk back down and go the right way, or you can plow ahead stupidly and then get stuck in the mud and never finish the series… Not that I’m thinking of any particular fantasy authors as I say that.
Up next I’ll be working on Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever, with Jason Cordova. I believe it is planned to come out toward the end of 2023.
There’s a bunch more stuff coming that I don’t have time to talk about right now, that I’ve mentioned before. Don’t worry. Still working on it!
There are also several short stories I owe people between now and the end of the year.
Release Dates
No Game For Knights came out earlier this month, and it rocks. Check it out. That’s an anthology of noir sci-fi and fantasy stories edited by me and Kacey Ezell. It’s filled with fantastic authors.
In Defense of the Second Amendment is out January.
Tower of Silence is out April. I’ll be doing a big preorder push like I did for the gun book when I get back from FenCon.
Lost Planet Homicide 2 for Audible is done, and I think it’ll be out in January, but I’m not sure on that.
Other Stuff!
The Kickstarter for the MHI Miniatures Game from Everything Epic is over, but you can still get in late on the Backerkit. It is moving along. They’ve been working on art and models and sending me updates. Once I’m done with these two cons I’ll get more of the artwork posted for you guys.
Grimnoir leather bound. After a couple years of nut kicks and people going out of business, Spellbound is up shortly at the new printers. I should hopefully have some really happy announcements on that within 6 weeks or so.
