Smashwords Summer Sale, 50% discount on all my books!

Smashwords Summer Sale, 50% discount on all my books!

Hear hear! My main site Dedoimedo just celebrated its twentieth birthday.  I would like to commemorate this monumental event, and I would like to do it the Hobbit way. I shall be giving away presents, so to speak. Thus, as I announced thither, throughout the entire month of July, for 31 days, you can buy my entire Smashwords catalog at half price. All of these books are DRM-free, and one of the titles is available at no cost. What a fantastic treat, eh. Also, let’s call it a Winter Sale for those on the wrong side of the planet.

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Inspiring literary spam is here

Inspiring literary spam is here

Who said “AI” ain’t good for naught? It turns out, there be a use case! In the recent months, I started receiving more and more digital spam in me inbox. But this time around, it’s spam with flavor. A twist. Lots of emails labeled “a powerful and inspiring catch phrase” + “title of one of my books”. These would be all styled in a cutesy (yet highly repetitive) way so as to supposedly grab my attention, but if you have more than a quarter of a mashed potato in your head, you can easily see this is pure computer-generated pseudo-marketing dross.

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A wee holiday treat, Career book, 50% off

A wee holiday treat, Career book, 50% off

Hello there, dear readers. I would like to inform you of a nice three-week sale gala, commencing today, and ending on January 7. What is it about, you ask? Well, my career-focused book, aptly named How to Make Your Career Suck Less. Indeed, this fine, cheekily named title will be available at a handsome 50% discount through all Draft2Digital stores for 21 merry days.

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Smashwords Summer Sale, all my books 50% off (July 1-31)

Smashwords Summer Sale, all my books 50% off (July 1-31)

Splendid news, everyone! As I announced on my tech blog dedoimedo.com just a few days ago, I would like to invite you to the mega-nice Smashwords Summer Sale, taking place throughout the entire month of July. From tomorrow, for 31 days and nights, you can buy and enjoy the entire catalog of me digital books available on Smashwords at a lovely 50% discount. A good opportunity to grab some fresh reading material, especially since all these e-books are DRM free. And, well, nicely written, I think.

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I’m going to write a book on artificial intelligence, oh oh

I’m going to write a book on artificial intelligence, oh oh

So, I’m going to board the hype train. But not as a passenger. As the driver! Think about it. Who better to write a book on AI than a diehard curmudgeonly tech-savvy skeptic who treats this whole thing as one big conditioning experiment? Exactly. No one. Now, the topic. Ethics, of course. What else is there.

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A screenshot from the cmatrix program in Linux. Not quite AI, but dramatic enough.

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The military history book is complete

The military history book is complete

Well, well, that was quick. Three months, done. Now, let me throw some lovely statistics at ya. Book length? About 80,000 words, give or take a few, thirty-five images, thirty-three tables, a combat simulation (written in octave). Study material? I read about 150 books, and about thrice as many reports, journals, monographs, and webpages in six languages. I marked about 800 annotations, and ended up with slightly under 700 citations and references. And the genre?

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A million words, to find your tone

A million words, to find your tone

A couple of months back, I finished writing my brand new-old fantasy book. A fresh, third attempt at an old idea. Why, you may ask. Well, the old one just wasn’t good enough. Despite its verbosity, almost three quarters of a million words, it was clunky, ponderous, perhaps even boring. And reading, I was quite surprised, and delighted, by how much my writing style has changed over the years, and decades. This got me wondering. How many words does it take for one to find their “true” voice?

 

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New challenges, new genres

New challenges, new genres

I don’t like repeating myself. Let me say that one more time. I don’t … no, wait. Aha! So, as it happens, I’m not really fond of writing “more of the same”, so to speak. Once I’ve done a certain theme, I don’t find great enjoyment in rehashing it. Some authors love their worlds, and keep spinning endless sequels in them. But that’s too familiar, too easy for me. I always need to push beyond my would-be comfort zone, and I always want to try new things, writing wise. Hence, the two new topics I’m going to do in 2025: military history and romance novel, what.

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Prince Dietrich, at your service, for FREE

Prince Dietrich, at your service, for FREE

More books news, more excellent offers! As I wrote on dedoimedo.com just now, my benevolence truly knows no bounds. Not only have I just announced a mega-awesome Smashwords holiday sale 50% deal on all my e-books published yonder, you’re going to get another splendid gift, too. From Thursday, December 19 till Monday, December 23, midnight to midnight inclusive, The Amazing Advetures of Dashing Prince Dietrich is going to be free for grabs in the Amazon Kindle store. Hear, hear.

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