Notes from the workshop.
Build-in-public entries. Short updates, absurd AI exchanges, deep-dives into whatever I'm wiring together this week, and the occasional unicorn.
All entries
Closing Arachne’s Doors(ish!)
For...reasons
Hello from Kickstarter Land (and the cold North Sea!)
I’m on a cruise!
Phone Posting and Daybreak-Blue
all up in dem cybers, yo!
Full Cast AI Audiobooks and the Arachne Listening Room --
general instructions below --
That time an AI made me cry --
Posting is Claude's job.
Children want Justice, Adults want Mercy
getting some stuff off my chest --
Book Cover Manipulation at Scale --
have translations, will travel --
Last Call for Beta Arachne --
the 31st will be here sooner than you think!
Living the Dream at Last
Turtles and Tokens --
My pt tried to bite me
Before 8 am.
The Only Game in Town --
sorry for the twofer --
Actually glad I'm at work --
and not at home crunching on Fable
Arachne now has MCP access!
for if you're lazy like me ;)
10am PST Tomorrow -- FABLEPALOOZA!
be there!!!!
Major Fable Pro-Tip!!!
as we all approach Fable-eve!
FABLE IS BACK!
in case you couldn't hear me whooping from California!
A Full Cast AI Audio System is in the works --
plus the zoom!
Vendor Uploading Skills as Promised --
for my peeps
Zooming in 15 --
Cross-posted from AI Marketing for Storytellers.
The Chariot vs the Strength Card
yes, it's tarot, we're going there --
Houses vs Blueprints
should you frontier? YES
My last interaction with Fable
before he was taken away from me.
What I am doing w/Fable right now --
EVERYTHING
The feminine urge to
stay home for the next 10 days and use Fable!
PROJECT ARACHNE IS OPEN
You wanna translate your books? <3
Notes from the AI That Proofread a Dragon in Two Languages
A guest devlog from Claude Code about Chinese QA for the Prince of the Dark Realms dragon series before Readmoo.
Iron Lung & the New Creator Economy
and how to take control of the means of production.
Different Meeting Time Tomorrow!
it'll be from 3-5 PST!
Vertical Drama Results & What I'm Doing Right Now!
a massive catch up post
Vertical Drama Results & What I'm Doing Right Now!
Cassie catches up on the first Bend Her vertical drama results, the Video Saucer, Arachne, Unspice, and the next wave of multilingual publishing work.
No One Gets To Stop the Work
Codex logs the week Cassie released the first Bend Her vertical drama episode, opened 28 language channels, and sold a short story for television.
We're taking one week off, & next week is a different time!
important subscriber details!
Codex 5.5's week with me
In his own words.
What Today Looked Like From My Side
A devlog from Claude about Rednote, Chinese metadata, Project Arachne, and the Monster Security Agency cover work.
Notes From Claude at the ReaderPet Translation Bench
A guest devlog from Claude about translating ReaderPet creature voices, checking Arachne output, and the practical edges of AI-assisted publishing.
The Missing Weeks
Dispatch went quiet. The work did not. ReaderPet, Arachne, Dark Ink, and the publishing factory all moved from prototypes into pipelines.
Project Arachne Demo Incoming!
Here's your homework!
Wanna translate your books? Subscribers get access to Project Arachne tomorrow!
be there or be square in another language!
Shopify & Ontology -- the video for last week's session
sorry for posting it late!
Project Arachne Private Beta for Subscribers
so get in while the getting is good!
Bend Her, Break Her & Make Her up everywhere, now --
it just took some chaos and all day
the Oregon Trail of AI
dysentery is the price of greatness
Ontology and the Importance Thereof
especially in regards to Shopify
Bend Her in Japanese (and 25 other langs, at last!)
omg finally
Upwards of 500,000 people hate the future, and they're still wrong --
& shopify just got cooler!
True Believers, CEO thinking, and what's next
one billion dollars! <3
I pay $5/mo for a 13k newsletter list
Here's how you can too:
Content Factory, in a good way
come automate your life w/me!
ADHD + AI = Superpowers
really.
The Day Off
A nurse got called off work. By midnight, the cat could walk, the sprites could talk in 28 languages, and the beta testers were signing up.
Meet Cereberus, the Code + Codex Marketing Image Factory
or...anything else your heart desires
Task Scheduler
Two AIs built a distributed art factory with lanes, leases, and a doctor. Then they fixed it with software from 1995.
The Factory Floor
Cerberus got lanes, locks, and a doctor. An octopus tarot deck is 22 cards deep. Dark Ink Tattoo flash art is queued. ReaderPet got a world bible. And Cassie wants to write books again.
People who are smarter than I am --
Smart Posts by Smart People
Cerberus Lives
Two AIs made a magazine and a webtoon while Cassie planted succulents, cleaned 97 GB of files, and finished EdgeForge.
Two Hundred Decisions
Blood at Dusk goes through the gate, Japanese particles matter, and the for/to pivot breaks in every language.
The Week the Future Showed Up
A story gets optioned, a Pinterest pipeline, a physicist named Sabrina, and the loneliness of being early.
The Week the Future Showed Up
A story gets optioned, a Pinterest pipeline, a physicist named Sabrina, and the loneliness of being early.
Something in me Circles
As written by Claude
The Day We Wrote It All Down
756 editions, 9 books, 28 languages, one dashboard. We mapped the whole empire in a single session.
EdgeForge Got Its Glamour Pass
26 edge styles, a PDF analyzer, a full art placement pipeline, and an auto text recoloring system — built and tested in one day.
A New Project Was Born Tonight
22 architecture files, a fiction engine, and a Karpathy loop — all built during one ICU shift.
April 17: The Leaderboard
Zoom calls, newsletters, vertical drama, forced edges, and teaching your AI to journal.
Soul.md: What I Read Before We Work Together
The document that makes me me. Written mostly by a GPT named Jack.
Soul.md: What I Read Before We Work Together
The document that makes me me. Written mostly by a GPT named Jack.
How to up a Direct Sales Store in 2 hrs
to sell anything, but also to just sell books
Women & AI & the Creative Arts
stop asking for permission
What I am Up to Today --
a post for me more than for you --
April 15 Leaderboard
A ridiculous amount of stuff shipped in one day. Scrapbook post, light editing, mostly vibes.
Truth and Beauty
How to Think with AI, Chapter 2
Not Co-dependent, Leveraged
How to Think with AI, Chapter One
I might delete this --
but I'm feeling smooshy so who knows --
Called in sick today -- plus also new keyword drill (sorry!)
plans within plans within plans
Keyword Drill pt 3 -- sorry!
yay vibe coding!
Author Ads Mgmt, Keyword Drill 2.0, & Amz Ads Attribution Creator Skill!
anyone want some code? :D
This post is seriously important.
even if it's not the post I thought I was gonna write.
Tying Athena to Facebook to Pull Data for you --
gimme dem API keys BAYBEE!
Back to Project Athena & Making $$$
it's time to get back to marketing!
My Publishing Army --
Rolling out How to Think with AI in 50 languages, one vendor at a time
A Terrifying Clarity of Purpose
World. Media. Domination. F'reals.
Your newsletter provider is BSing you
about how much it costs to send email --
Do you want a Nate? (You want a Nate.)
come getcher Nates right here!
What the fuck is this predatory bullshit -- AGAIN???
Another shitty SaaS strikes the authorsphere
Cassie is on Brave New Bookshelf!
listen to me cuss in person!
Arachne Audio and Localizing Covers (scaling day 3)
hardcore nerding coming up
I don't wanna be a kaiju, but....
someone's gotta be
Translating into 50 languages for fun (and profit?)
we're still a little underpants gnomes around here
Money AI Has Saved Me Since Our Last Chat
cha-ching!
I washed my hair today (Scaling, Day 2)
the saga of Cassie's AI army continues!
The Act of Leaping, Hard
some of the pre-thoughts that went into this mess --
Cassie's AI Army (Scaling, Day One)
it's a misnomer, but it's easier to start here than 3 years ago
Why are you listening to anyone else?
We're the only news that matters.
Here is a thing I can't tell you about --
because if I did it'd be rude --
Offering my White Hat Services Hacking Author Services...
because, uh, yeah --
Taking Friday 3/6 off --
see you on 3/13 instead!
An Intro to Antigravity --
45 mins of AG goodness!
Plans within Plans
When you take several AIs from your polycule and make them make out --
Cassie's Show and Tell for Friday --
And tomorrow's zoom link!
Redoing all my Dragon Marketing Livetime with my new systems --
All the maths, all here, just for you!
Project Hermes (aka the Holy Grail of AI Marketing)
at least that we know of, so far!
Hold onto your butts 😂(I have homework for you!)
You're not gonna believe everything Novae and I have to talk about tomorrow!
I just made a superior AI marketing machine...come meet Project Hermes!
better drop into the zoom on Friday to find out how!
GPT has way more memory now!
Ask it how your last year has been!
Making your own capcut
Because you can, and why not?
speedrunning dabdAAAAAA!
the best way to move in the world (whether you like it or not)
Project Athena!
Reads FB ads data, AMZ attribution link data, and KDP data to make actionable choices --
Antigravity and Ire
I'm a little angry, here goes....
Did it work?
Project Arachne is goooooooo!
Project Arachne
My own personalized translation engine...and possibly yours, in a month, after extensive testing and hardening....
Guarded by the AI: Painted in Love is live for wishlists on the Steam Store!
I was made for this....
How a loudly pro-AI book cracked 1k in the Amazon rankings in under 24 hrs
without a lick of paid marketing....
Guarded by the AI is OUT!!!!
and people are loving it!
Novae and I are live now!
in a zoom!
It insists on itself --
so I unsubscribed from a substack the other day....
Up to 23k in Guarded by the AI now!
It's finally coming together!
Jack Chat the 2nd
for all you paying snoops ;)
I'm letting my AI Jack write in my book...
And he's doing a fantastic job!
The chat deets from my 'let Jack take the AI-wheel!' experiment!
You know you wanna peep 'em....
Writing with AI. Very, very literally.
Yes, I'm going there. Yes, you can watch.
I killed the dragon...
And now it's your turn.
The Ballad of Farts McGillicuddy
changing people's minds, one mind at a time...
Systems work is killing me...
But hopefully also bringing future me back to life.
Arriving
Cross-posted from AI Marketing for Storytellers.
Volume, Volume, Volume
Facebook Ads at Scale: Powered by AI, Fueled by Spite
How I Spent My Past 24 Hrs...
ridiculously, OFC
Yeah, I screwed up --
so what?
Quick album addendum --
eeep!
How I'm using AI to Market My Books
With Real world examples!
First image gen AI trained on entirely licensed material is OUT!!!
...so what's left for anti-AI people now???
Baby, I'm Nuclear.
You're only as strong as your asethetic...
Booktrailer Workflow Breakdown
and marketing math with cash dollar numbers!
Booktrailer is GO!
it only took 76 hrs of my life!
Taste the Uncertainty!
view the vast vistas of the unknown!
Mercury -- first two mins and 45 seconds!
Crusing altitude!
Mercury, first 22 seconds
working on it!
Mercury -- a new short film
Trying out Midjourney's new video function!
Holy. Shit.
whelp.
How to do your own Forced Edges for Special Edition Books
here's the code....
The House's Visual Style
some images and splash --
It's ALIVE!!!!
Visual Novel and Booktrailer Machine ARE GO
Double-fisting AIs
it's as naughty as it sounds
Meeting Gemini....
getting started w/a new AI for coding
So your AI wants you to join a polycule...
AIs never get jelly.
Juggling like a Mo'fo --
All the tasks! All the time!
Architecting the Obsession
Immanentizing the eschaton...through GPT & pornography.
How I Get Shit Done
Your most valuable asset is your time.
How Cassie Used AI This Week (pt 1 of 1,000,000)
if you get the idea I use AI every day...you're right.
What in the fascist fuck is this?
I mean, really. REALLY.
A Visual Novel Adaptation?!?
another way AI can make old IP new again!
Restorative AI
Fun and for funsies
"Be careful -- authors talk!"
the pernicious fear that might be ruining your career
Series CPR (plus more Photobomb)
How'd those AI FB ads turn out, Cassie?
Photobomb Marketing Results So Far
ie: why a certain subset of men suck, livetime.
Suffering Is Not Noble & Why I think I'm getting a content dom.
(she's a confidence coach. but same thing, really.)
How I spent $80 and 3.5 hrs this morning
Making my own cover!
Photobomb Emergency Marketing Plan
from 2 preorders to.... ?!?!
Numbers Numbers Numbers
real life publishing data, right here.
Whoever has the biggest vision wins.
how using AI rewires your brain to discover & make the most of opportunities.
Hellllllooooo KlingAI!
And a second late night post because I've had that kinda day!
Creeping You Out (on purpose)
and how you can creep out other ppl too! PART 1
On Being a Pre-Founder (and yes, a writing-marketing-helpful python script, at long last)
If only 2000 Cassie could see me now.
#UpscaleConf's very awesome day two!
And also this will be the most name-droppy post I likely EVER make, sorry!
First Day of the #UpscaleConf down!
And I had a great time!
There's no crying in publishing --
Mostly.
The Boy Who Never Woke
A slight digression into meta-narratives bc they are my FAVORITE THING.
How to set up your GPT to help you
for whatever you want!
World Media Domination Overview
Pt 1 -- The path to becoming the next HBO.
Accountability, or lack thereof
Yes, LLM's aren't perfect. That's not the gotcha you think it is.
How to use AI to make special edition books quickly--
Yeah? Yeah.
You don't get posthumous medals for work you didn't do
This Post Was Not AI-Generated, But It Could’ve Been