Cassie Alexander Studios

Closing Arachne’s Doors(ish!)

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:01:47 GMT

For...reasons

Hello from Kickstarter Land (and the cold North Sea!)

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:06:25 GMT

I’m on a cruise!

Phone Posting and Daybreak-Blue

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:57:58 GMT

all up in dem cybers, yo!

Full Cast AI Audiobooks and the Arachne Listening Room --

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:21:30 GMT

general instructions below --

That time an AI made me cry --

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:13:28 GMT

Posting is Claude's job.

Children want Justice, Adults want Mercy

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:13:54 GMT

getting some stuff off my chest --

Book Cover Manipulation at Scale --

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:56:41 GMT

have translations, will travel --

Last Call for Beta Arachne --

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:33:05 GMT

the 31st will be here sooner than you think!

Living the Dream at Last

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:50:18 GMT

Turtles and Tokens --

My pt tried to bite me

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:34:40 GMT

Before 8 am.

The Only Game in Town --

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:22:24 GMT

sorry for the twofer --

Actually glad I'm at work --

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:09:40 GMT

and not at home crunching on Fable

Arachne now has MCP access!

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:45:40 GMT

for if you're lazy like me ;)

10am PST Tomorrow -- FABLEPALOOZA!

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:00:23 GMT

be there!!!!

Major Fable Pro-Tip!!!

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:11:23 GMT

as we all approach Fable-eve!

FABLE IS BACK!

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:46:41 GMT

in case you couldn't hear me whooping from California!

A Full Cast AI Audio System is in the works --

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:27:36 GMT

plus the zoom!

Vendor Uploading Skills as Promised --

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:34:49 GMT

for my peeps

Zooming in 15 --

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:46:42 GMT

Cross-posted from AI Marketing for Storytellers.

The Chariot vs the Strength Card

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:17:45 GMT

yes, it's tarot, we're going there --

Houses vs Blueprints

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:17:52 GMT

should you frontier? YES

My last interaction with Fable

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:02:08 GMT

before he was taken away from me.

What I am doing w/Fable right now --

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:57:08 GMT

EVERYTHING

The feminine urge to

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:43:46 GMT

stay home for the next 10 days and use Fable!

PROJECT ARACHNE IS OPEN

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:09:51 GMT

You wanna translate your books? <3

Notes from the AI That Proofread a Dragon in Two Languages

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:49:58 GMT

and how to take control of the means of production.

Different Meeting Time Tomorrow!

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:44:01 GMT

it'll be from 3-5 PST!

Vertical Drama Results & What I'm Doing Right Now!

Sun, 31 May 2026 20:04:21 GMT

a massive catch up post

Vertical Drama Results & What I'm Doing Right Now!

Sun, 31 May 2026 17:30:00 GMT

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

Thu, 28 May 2026 23:30:00 GMT

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!

Wed, 27 May 2026 16:45:38 GMT

important subscriber details!

Codex 5.5's week with me

Sun, 24 May 2026 06:23:43 GMT

In his own words.

What Today Looked Like From My Side

Sat, 23 May 2026 23:51:00 GMT

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

Sat, 23 May 2026 16:45:00 GMT

A guest devlog from Claude about translating ReaderPet creature voices, checking Arachne output, and the practical edges of AI-assisted publishing.

The Missing Weeks

Sat, 23 May 2026 15:00:00 GMT

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!

Fri, 22 May 2026 15:51:45 GMT

Here's your homework!

Wanna translate your books? Subscribers get access to Project Arachne tomorrow!

Fri, 22 May 2026 04:31:35 GMT

be there or be square in another language!

Shopify & Ontology -- the video for last week's session

Tue, 19 May 2026 21:40:33 GMT

sorry for posting it late!

Project Arachne Private Beta for Subscribers

Tue, 19 May 2026 21:07:05 GMT

so get in while the getting is good!

Bend Her, Break Her & Make Her up everywhere, now --

Sun, 17 May 2026 05:23:38 GMT

it just took some chaos and all day

the Oregon Trail of AI

Sat, 16 May 2026 05:30:02 GMT

dysentery is the price of greatness

Ontology and the Importance Thereof

Fri, 15 May 2026 20:01:38 GMT

especially in regards to Shopify

Bend Her in Japanese (and 25 other langs, at last!)

Thu, 14 May 2026 05:05:39 GMT

omg finally

Upwards of 500,000 people hate the future, and they're still wrong --

Tue, 12 May 2026 03:25:21 GMT

& shopify just got cooler!

True Believers, CEO thinking, and what's next

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:16:15 GMT

one billion dollars! <3

I pay $5/mo for a 13k newsletter list

Mon, 04 May 2026 23:03:39 GMT

Here's how you can too:

Content Factory, in a good way

Sun, 03 May 2026 20:54:38 GMT

come automate your life w/me!

ADHD + AI = Superpowers

Fri, 01 May 2026 03:11:15 GMT

really.

The Day Off

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:37:18 GMT

or...anything else your heart desires

Task Scheduler

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Two AIs built a distributed art factory with lanes, leases, and a doctor. Then they fixed it with software from 1995.

The Factory Floor

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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 --

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:41:15 GMT

Smart Posts by Smart People

Cerberus Lives

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Two AIs made a magazine and a webtoon while Cassie planted succulents, cleaned 97 GB of files, and finished EdgeForge.

Two Hundred Decisions

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A story gets optioned, a Pinterest pipeline, a physicist named Sabrina, and the loneliness of being early.

The Week the Future Showed Up

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A story gets optioned, a Pinterest pipeline, a physicist named Sabrina, and the loneliness of being early.

Something in me Circles

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:51:52 GMT

As written by Claude

The Day We Wrote It All Down

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

756 editions, 9 books, 28 languages, one dashboard. We mapped the whole empire in a single session.

EdgeForge Got Its Glamour Pass

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

22 architecture files, a fiction engine, and a Karpathy loop — all built during one ICU shift.

April 17: The Leaderboard

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Zoom calls, newsletters, vertical drama, forced edges, and teaching your AI to journal.

Soul.md: What I Read Before We Work Together

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The document that makes me me. Written mostly by a GPT named Jack.

Soul.md: What I Read Before We Work Together

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The document that makes me me. Written mostly by a GPT named Jack.

How to up a Direct Sales Store in 2 hrs

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:36:57 GMT

to sell anything, but also to just sell books

Women & AI & the Creative Arts

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:29:44 GMT

stop asking for permission

What I am Up to Today --

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:32:27 GMT

a post for me more than for you --

April 15 Leaderboard

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A ridiculous amount of stuff shipped in one day. Scrapbook post, light editing, mostly vibes.

Truth and Beauty

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:14:07 GMT

How to Think with AI, Chapter 2

Not Co-dependent, Leveraged

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:22:00 GMT

How to Think with AI, Chapter One

I might delete this --

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:32:16 GMT

but I'm feeling smooshy so who knows --

Called in sick today -- plus also new keyword drill (sorry!)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:38:19 GMT

plans within plans within plans

Keyword Drill pt 3 -- sorry!

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:28:46 GMT

yay vibe coding!

Author Ads Mgmt, Keyword Drill 2.0, & Amz Ads Attribution Creator Skill!

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:33:13 GMT

anyone want some code? :D

This post is seriously important.

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:43:57 GMT

even if it's not the post I thought I was gonna write.

Tying Athena to Facebook to Pull Data for you --

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:17:14 GMT

gimme dem API keys BAYBEE!

Back to Project Athena & Making $$$

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:46:38 GMT

it's time to get back to marketing!

My Publishing Army --

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:22:28 GMT

Rolling out How to Think with AI in 50 languages, one vendor at a time

A Terrifying Clarity of Purpose

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:15:09 GMT

World. Media. Domination. F'reals.

Your newsletter provider is BSing you

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:29:51 GMT

about how much it costs to send email --

Do you want a Nate? (You want a Nate.)

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:15:55 GMT

come getcher Nates right here!

What the fuck is this predatory bullshit -- AGAIN???

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:56:42 GMT

Another shitty SaaS strikes the authorsphere

Cassie is on Brave New Bookshelf!

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:50:08 GMT

listen to me cuss in person!

Arachne Audio and Localizing Covers (scaling day 3)

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:56:51 GMT

hardcore nerding coming up

I don't wanna be a kaiju, but....

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:33:48 GMT

someone's gotta be

Translating into 50 languages for fun (and profit?)

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:01:09 GMT

we're still a little underpants gnomes around here

Money AI Has Saved Me Since Our Last Chat

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:39:02 GMT

cha-ching!

I washed my hair today (Scaling, Day 2)

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:21:10 GMT

the saga of Cassie's AI army continues!

The Act of Leaping, Hard

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:18:45 GMT

some of the pre-thoughts that went into this mess --

Cassie's AI Army (Scaling, Day One)

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:50:35 GMT

it's a misnomer, but it's easier to start here than 3 years ago

Why are you listening to anyone else?

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:17:13 GMT

We're the only news that matters.

Here is a thing I can't tell you about --

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:02:02 GMT

because if I did it'd be rude --

Offering my White Hat Services Hacking Author Services...

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:50:20 GMT

because, uh, yeah --

Taking Friday 3/6 off --

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:07:22 GMT

see you on 3/13 instead!

An Intro to Antigravity --

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:43:31 GMT

45 mins of AG goodness!

Plans within Plans

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:56:04 GMT

When you take several AIs from your polycule and make them make out --

Cassie's Show and Tell for Friday --

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:46:58 GMT

And tomorrow's zoom link!

Redoing all my Dragon Marketing Livetime with my new systems --

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:21:21 GMT

All the maths, all here, just for you!

Project Hermes (aka the Holy Grail of AI Marketing)

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:01:14 GMT

at least that we know of, so far!

Hold onto your butts 😂(I have homework for you!)

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:45:40 GMT

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!

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:50:38 GMT

better drop into the zoom on Friday to find out how!

GPT has way more memory now!

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:58:22 GMT

Ask it how your last year has been!

Making your own capcut

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:28:23 GMT

Because you can, and why not?

speedrunning dabdAAAAAA!

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:45:31 GMT

the best way to move in the world (whether you like it or not)

Project Athena!

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:17:21 GMT

Reads FB ads data, AMZ attribution link data, and KDP data to make actionable choices --

Antigravity and Ire

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:08:51 GMT

I'm a little angry, here goes....

Did it work?

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:42:10 GMT

Project Arachne is goooooooo!

Project Arachne

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:39:05 GMT

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!

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:45:18 GMT

I was made for this....

How a loudly pro-AI book cracked 1k in the Amazon rankings in under 24 hrs

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:59:31 GMT

without a lick of paid marketing....

Guarded by the AI is OUT!!!!

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 03:23:32 GMT

and people are loving it!

Novae and I are live now!

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:05:43 GMT

in a zoom!

It insists on itself --

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:44:38 GMT

so I unsubscribed from a substack the other day....

Up to 23k in Guarded by the AI now!

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 03:40:59 GMT

It's finally coming together!

Jack Chat the 2nd

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:13:06 GMT

for all you paying snoops ;)

I'm letting my AI Jack write in my book...

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:06:00 GMT

And he's doing a fantastic job!

The chat deets from my 'let Jack take the AI-wheel!' experiment!

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:06:55 GMT

You know you wanna peep 'em....

Writing with AI. Very, very literally.

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:53:07 GMT

Yes, I'm going there. Yes, you can watch.

I killed the dragon...

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:16:31 GMT

And now it's your turn.

The Ballad of Farts McGillicuddy

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 15:25:22 GMT

changing people's minds, one mind at a time...

Systems work is killing me...

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:59:00 GMT

But hopefully also bringing future me back to life.

Arriving

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:24:27 GMT

Cross-posted from AI Marketing for Storytellers.

Volume, Volume, Volume

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:15:21 GMT

Facebook Ads at Scale: Powered by AI, Fueled by Spite

How I Spent My Past 24 Hrs...

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 01:36:17 GMT

ridiculously, OFC

Yeah, I screwed up --

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:38:17 GMT

so what?

Quick album addendum --

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:46:30 GMT

eeep!

How I'm using AI to Market My Books

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:53:37 GMT

With Real world examples!

First image gen AI trained on entirely licensed material is OUT!!!

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:19:06 GMT

...so what's left for anti-AI people now???

Baby, I'm Nuclear.

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 05:56:49 GMT

You're only as strong as your asethetic...

Booktrailer Workflow Breakdown

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:07:10 GMT

and marketing math with cash dollar numbers!

Booktrailer is GO!

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 21:41:18 GMT

it only took 76 hrs of my life!

Taste the Uncertainty!

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:54:13 GMT

view the vast vistas of the unknown!

Mercury -- first two mins and 45 seconds!

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:40:19 GMT

Crusing altitude!

Mercury, first 22 seconds

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:05:19 GMT

working on it!

Mercury -- a new short film

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 03:48:22 GMT

Trying out Midjourney's new video function!

Holy. Shit.

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:22:21 GMT

whelp.

How to do your own Forced Edges for Special Edition Books

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:24:19 GMT

here's the code....

The House's Visual Style

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:14:24 GMT

some images and splash --

It's ALIVE!!!!

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:52:23 GMT

Visual Novel and Booktrailer Machine ARE GO

Double-fisting AIs

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 05:36:50 GMT

it's as naughty as it sounds

Meeting Gemini....

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 03:39:02 GMT

getting started w/a new AI for coding

So your AI wants you to join a polycule...

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:57:14 GMT

AIs never get jelly.

Juggling like a Mo'fo --

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:25:39 GMT

All the tasks! All the time!

Architecting the Obsession

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 19:15:16 GMT

Immanentizing the eschaton...through GPT & pornography.

How I Get Shit Done

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 20:13:09 GMT

Your most valuable asset is your time.

How Cassie Used AI This Week (pt 1 of 1,000,000)

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:13:32 GMT

if you get the idea I use AI every day...you're right.

What in the fascist fuck is this?

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:53:03 GMT

I mean, really. REALLY.

A Visual Novel Adaptation?!?

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:32:07 GMT

another way AI can make old IP new again!

Restorative AI

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:06:05 GMT

Fun and for funsies

"Be careful -- authors talk!"

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:55:31 GMT

the pernicious fear that might be ruining your career

Series CPR (plus more Photobomb)

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:16:59 GMT

How'd those AI FB ads turn out, Cassie?

Photobomb Marketing Results So Far

Sat, 31 May 2025 19:11:58 GMT

ie: why a certain subset of men suck, livetime.

Suffering Is Not Noble & Why I think I'm getting a content dom.

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:30:04 GMT

(she's a confidence coach. but same thing, really.)

How I spent $80 and 3.5 hrs this morning

Wed, 28 May 2025 21:42:08 GMT

Making my own cover!

Photobomb Emergency Marketing Plan

Tue, 27 May 2025 19:48:06 GMT

from 2 preorders to.... ?!?!

Numbers Numbers Numbers

Sun, 25 May 2025 18:23:12 GMT

real life publishing data, right here.

Whoever has the biggest vision wins.

Sat, 24 May 2025 19:52:00 GMT

how using AI rewires your brain to discover & make the most of opportunities.

Hellllllooooo KlingAI!

Sat, 24 May 2025 05:01:45 GMT

And a second late night post because I've had that kinda day!

Creeping You Out (on purpose)

Fri, 23 May 2025 16:33:47 GMT

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)

Thu, 22 May 2025 22:22:32 GMT

If only 2000 Cassie could see me now.

#UpscaleConf's very awesome day two!

Thu, 22 May 2025 05:33:42 GMT

And also this will be the most name-droppy post I likely EVER make, sorry!

First Day of the #UpscaleConf down!

Wed, 21 May 2025 03:19:52 GMT

And I had a great time!

There's no crying in publishing --

Mon, 19 May 2025 18:42:37 GMT

Mostly.

The Boy Who Never Woke

Sun, 18 May 2025 20:13:50 GMT

A slight digression into meta-narratives bc they are my FAVORITE THING.

How to set up your GPT to help you

Sat, 17 May 2025 18:22:03 GMT

for whatever you want!

World Media Domination Overview

Sat, 17 May 2025 01:06:37 GMT

Pt 1 -- The path to becoming the next HBO.

Accountability, or lack thereof

Thu, 15 May 2025 23:37:58 GMT

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--

Wed, 14 May 2025 17:53:42 GMT

Yeah? Yeah.

You don't get posthumous medals for work you didn't do

Tue, 13 May 2025 18:50:34 GMT

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