Sam squinting at the poster, trying to figure out if it's a cheetah or a leopard.

Still works perfectly in Master Shake's voice.

I love your spritework. How would you go with, say, power armor and not a mecha per se? They're pretty similar, right?

The creepiest cover? I'm honored, haha! But it makes me think of the more intense expression in a concept sketch @tommyarnoldart.com and I nixed because we thought it might be *too* unsettling!

Excited to see it all unfold.

Give it a year or two, and we'll have the Big 5 (or an imprint thereof) trying to pass off LLM-generated fiction. I'm dead certain. They're already openly chasing the LitRPG trend.

Everyone seems to think that people simply won't read it and that it won't get popular. But anyone who actually looks at these platforms can see that there are A LOT of people who simply DO NOT CARE that they're reading LLM-generated slop. "If you don't like it, don't read it" has been turned on us.

The worst thing is, everyone you mention this to thinks you're Chicken Little. It doesn't matter that AI slop stories are getting thousands of followers on Royal Road, it doesn't matter they're getting hundreds of reviews on Amazon, it doesn't matter that AO3 and SB let AI-fiction prosper...

It's so over, but the wheel turns...

I was just about to say this!

Funnily enough, apparently one of the original ideas for Kylo Ren.

Reminds me of when in The Expanse had its characters cite the 'invisible ships' myth with this sense of profundity, which was odd. When called out on it, the writers said it was a deliberate thing to have them say it because the crew didn't know it wasn't true or something, which was baffling.

Thanks for writing them! It's wicked seeing what feels like someone hooked into a similar creative wavelength, so to speak.