by Andrew Einspruch | Jan 27, 2026 | Books
I’ve read a number of books in the past year that used the narrative device of telling the stories from the point of view of a machine intelligence (two were robots, the other an AI). A few stood out. Keeping readers engaged when your narrator is a machine...
by Andrew Einspruch | Dec 11, 2025 | Books
I don’t read a lot of older books, tending more toward recent releases. For example, I tried to read The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (serialised between 1859 and 1860), because the Secret Life of Books podcast (recommended) did a couple of episodes on it....
by Andrew Einspruch | Jan 11, 2025 | Writing
Short Story: August 8, 1974 H. Stuart Knight slipped a stake into the inside pocket of his suit jacket, flung himself from the roof of the White House, and grabbed onto the invisible wall of wards that protected it from Soviet missiles and Otherworld assassins. Inside...
by Andrew Einspruch | Apr 11, 2023 | Viewing
Shrinking = Fabulous Two things today. First, I had several responses to last week’s email that included images generated by Midjourney based on a prompt from the beginning of The Purple Haze. I think Georgette’s response sums it up nicely...
by Andrew Einspruch | Apr 4, 2023 | Technology
A Picture of Eloise? Recently, I talked about generative AI in general, and ChatGPT in particular, and how I think we’re in a real moment. Have you used any of the generative AI tools that do images? They’re also fascinating. I’ve tried Dall-E 2,...
by Andrew Einspruch | Mar 28, 2023 | Technology
There’s a “There” There Created using Midjourney. Prompt: “Humorous photorealist image of an author using an AI to help him do his work.” If you’ve been with me a while, you know I like tech-y things. And, oh my, what a tech moment...
by Andrew Einspruch | Oct 26, 2021 | Writing
One of the steps in my editing process is letting Siri read my manuscript to me. By hearing the text, I catch things that I can no longer see in the words. Normally, the way I do this is to listen to it on my phone. If I find something that needs changing, I’ll...
by Andrew Einspruch | Sep 8, 2021 | Writing
My writing motto is Just Write the Next Sentence. And I’m a write-every-day kind of writer. I track my words, and can tell you how many I wrote on any given day since April 2016. I’ve learned that when it comes to writing, math is your friend. If you write...
by Andrew Einspruch | Aug 4, 2019 | Books
I’m thrilled to be able to tell you that the third book in the Western Lands and All That Really Matters series, The Light Bearer, has just been released. Details about the book are below. It’s available on Amazon and is in Kindle Unlimited. It’s...
