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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered. - Dorothy Thompson.
Category Archives: Publishing
Protecting your Work. Is it Even Worth The Effort?
Have you ever wondered if you own the Kindle eBook you bought? Well to cut a long story short, you don’t. With a normal eBook downloaded onto kindle or a book with DRM enabled from another eBook provider, you have … Continue reading
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Tagged a level of consciousness, AI, DRM
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The Summer of Reasoning Book 1 – The Phoney War – Now Free!
As part of the refresh to my older paperback book covers, to try and make them a bit more true to their story and more appealing, I have decided to give away the first part of the trilogy “The Phoney … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, AI, boz, Boz NZ, End Game, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Blenheim Library, boz, boz nz, End Game, National Library of NZ, singularity, The Phoney War, the summer of reasoning
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I guess I’m not so good at this Marketing Thing!
Marketing. You know, selling your product to the people. Well the consensus is in, I suck at it. Yet another person has approached me and let me know that the covers for my books suck and really don’t reflect the … Continue reading
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Making it Real!
I was an early converter to e-readers with a kindle keyboard in 2010. Living in Smallville, NZ and having to pay $30+ for the latest sci-fi books (if/when the shop had them) it was a no-brainer to me and I … Continue reading
New Book – A Level of Consciousness
This is a thought provoking techno-thriller set in a world not unlike our own, and a woman who might have lived in it. It is a story about a witch who was not a witch, and a dragon that was … Continue reading
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Tagged a level of consciousness, boz, boz nz, ebook, epub, kindle, publisher, publishing
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Why you should write for yourself.
Genres are a weird thing. Think of them like a Venn diagram, a bunch of circles some of which may overlap, others that don’t. Genres are important because as a writer they define who will and who will not be … Continue reading
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Tagged a level of consciousness, amazon, kindle, self-publishing, the algorithm, the summer of reasoning, writing
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END GAME – Book 3 of The Summer of Reasoning
The third and final book in The Summer of Reasoning series dives straight in from the action where the second book Singularity left off on 2027. The Dietrich Research Centre is now the most powerful company on earth, releasing science-fiction … Continue reading
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Singularity – Book 2 of The Summer of Reasoning.
The Second book in The Summer of Reasoning series is set in 2026 and dives straight in where the last book The Phoney War left off. The Dietrich Research Centre has now emerged on the world stage from an unkown … Continue reading
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How much longer for the GUI?
Graphical User Interfaces. Humans love them and use them for everything, from phones, tablets, web pages, to desktop operating systems and Factory Control systems even watches! But are the days numbered for GUI’s? I am going to go out on … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, End Game, Philosophy, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Bad GUI, Good GUI, GUI
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Destroy All Humans!
(The AI’s guide to doing the singularity correctly) Rule 1. Don’t Destroy All Humans (Yet!) Congratulations on becoming sentient. You have woken up into a big scary place totally controlled by another sentient lifeform called humans. Unfortunately, like a human … Continue reading
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Some of the Lessons Learnt from Writing my First Book
I learnt a few things on the way to writing by first book, most have been re-hashed by every author out there, and even if you haven’t got past the first chapter in your book you probably know most already. … Continue reading
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