THE ALGO is part of a @BookBub featured deal right now. Get it at a discount for the next few days. Also just launched: algoseries.com. Start with the box. See what you can put back. #writtingcommunity #authors #scifi #books

THE ALGO audiobook just launched. Hear the first 5 minutes here: amazon.com/arya/webplayer?as… The ebook is $0.99 for the next few days. Listen or read. Your choice. Which feels right for a story about what happens when choice starts disappearing. #books #WritingCommunity #SciFi

THE ALGO is not scary because AI exists. It's scary because the systems are specific: scores, wristbands, recommendations, pathways, protocols. Fear gets stronger when it has handles the reader can recognize. Experience the world here amazon.com/dp/B0GXF1D3J7 #WritingCommunity

A useful revision test: if you have a strong image followed by a sentence explaining what the image means, try deleting the explanation. The reader may already be there. Trust the image first. #WritingCommunity #WritingTips #IcebergMethod

Competent characters are interesting when their competence becomes a trap. ie, a main character is good at the very systems she eventually has to resist. That makes her harder to write, and much more interesting to follow. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

The most encouraging reader response has been some version of: this feels possible. For near-future fiction, that is the sweet spot. Not prediction. Recognition. I wanted the reader to feel the future leaning against the present. #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction

I try to treat theme like weather. It should affect every scene, but it should not walk in and introduce itself. In #THEALGO, choice, creativity, and control are everywhere. The characters rarely name them directly. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Quiet scenes still need pressure. Not explosions. Pressure. A question the reader carries. A choice being avoided. A piece of information the character cannot unknow. Stillness works best when something is moving underneath it. #WritingCommunity #WritingTips

I built interactive websites for #THEALGO because the story already had public-facing systems inside it. The sites weren't bolted on afterward. They were part of how the world wanted to speak. You can explore one of those sites here jointnexus.com #WritingCommunity

A book launch is not just a sales moment. It is a feedback system. You learn what language readers repeat back to you, what images stick, what promises connect, and which parts of the book become the doorway. #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor

THE RAVEN BOOK DROP IS LIVE. I hid a signed copy of THE ALGO somewhere inside The Raven Book Lounge in #Nashville. Inside: a $50 Raven gift card. Watch the clues. Find the book. It’s yours. #Books #independentbookstores #BookPromo #BookRec

One way to make an antagonist system more unsettling: let it be reasonable. The JNA does not think it is evil. It thinks it is solving waste, fear, failure, and uncertainty. That belief makes it more dangerous. #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction

The last mile of publishing can feel strangely brutal. Metadata. Proofs. Uploads. Categories. Descriptions. Tiny decisions that somehow all matter. Do not mistake fatigue for a sign to quit. It is often just the final incline. #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor

Loyalty points are clever. They turn returning into a reward. After a while, you stop asking whether you chose the place or the points chose it for you. #HumanBehavior #ThingsTheAlgorithmCantMeasure

Read receipts did not just tell us a message was seen. They changed what silence meant. That is a lot of power for two tiny words. #ThingsTheAlgorithmCantMeasure #HumanBehavior

Interior formatting matters more than many indie authors expect. The reader may not notice when it is done well. They will notice when it gets in the way. Think of professional presentation as reader care. #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor

The “skip intro” button is useful. It also says something about us. Even the doorway into the story started to feel like wasted time. #TheSpaceBetween #HumanCreativity

Your cover is not decoration. It is the first promise you make to a reader. Before they know your prose, your characters, or your world, they know whether the book feels like it belongs on their shelf. This is the cover of #THEALGO #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor