Blog Posts

  • Can You Write a Book With AI?

    The quick answer? Yes, darling, of course you can.The better answer? Wrong question. The real question is: “Should I use AI to write my book?”And the answer to that is a royal shrug: It depends. What Exactly Are You Writing, My Dear? If you’re whipping up a pamphlet—something breezy to hand out to clients, like

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  • Why Write a Book?

    Nonfiction book, that is. Darling, let’s cut to the chase: you don’t write a book because you fancy becoming the next Dickens, Hemingway, or that girl who wrote Twilight in her downtime. No, you write a book because it’s the single most dazzling, gloriously impractical-yet-practical move you can make for your business, reputation, and legacy.

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  • On Writing: Jennette McCurdy and Author Voice

    One of the things I love about Jeanette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died is the way McCurdy manipulates language to reflect the age she was writing about while maintaining her personal voice throughout. When talking about the “voice” in a book, we can think of it in terms of how it sounds, or how

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  • Virgin Island Creole English

    Virgin Islands Creole English

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  • St. Thomas Photos (Before Maria)

    Photos of St. Thomas, USVI, from the scenes in Revenge Cafe.

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  • Driving on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands

    American cars driving according to British rules on dangerous roads — what better place to put a really bad driver?

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