Yesterday, the snow was all gone. This morning, I woke up to this. Now I ask you, is this fair? What the heck, Mother Nature? This is spring. Winter’s over. We’re supposed to have buds on the trees and the first hardy perenials poking their heads out of the ground. Not this!
Well, this is what we’ve got. Eight inches of the miserable white stuff, and as if that isn’t bad enough, we’ll be getting ten hours or so of freezing rain tomorrow. Lovely, just fecking lovely as the Irish might say. It looks as if I’m not going anywhere today or tomorrow. The good news? That freezing rain will turn into regular rain on Monday and the temperature will go up to 60 degrees F. Winter/Spring in Canada. Got to love it. Hopefully, this is just March going out like a lion. You know how unpredictable cats can be.
Enough of that. I have what I hope is good news. I know a lot of people are anti AI, and many of them are upset because their books have been pirated and have ended up on an AI training site without their permission; mine have, too, but there isn’t much I can do about it. Someone posted a site where you could join a group and follow the situation, but the cost of joining was prohibitive. I could buy two weeks’ worth of groceries for it. I’m certainly not thrilled about someone using my work like that, but since some big name authors are there as well, like Nora Roberts and Stephen King, I’ll consider it my one and only chance to hang out with them, if only for a short time.
So, what have I done? I’ve decided to take advantage of it and use the opportunity to get a few of my books converted to audio books. Kindle has made the service available to me, and while I suppose it could be considered sleeping with the enemy, I’ve accepted the offer. I could never have been able to put my books on audio any other way, and while I know the narrator won’t have all the qualities of a flesh and blood voice actor, when it comes right down to it, it is the next best thing.
To date I have three books available: The Tigress Tequila Sunrise A Case of Mistaken Identity I will add more books as soon as I can. I’ve chosen a female narrator with what I consider an accent and voice tone quite similar to my own. Is it perfect, no, but it’s darn good.
This is a huge step outside of my comfort zone, one I struggled with, but the truth is, AI is here to stay. I’m not ready to let it write my books, but it can help my cover artist create amazing covers and convert my words into sound, allowing me to perhaps reach new fans. What’s done is done. I’m embracing the future–well, slowly, but like Winter/Spring, I’mworking it out.
Have a great weekend!
Living the Dream 
I think the battle is going to be a lot of give and take until we find a happy compromise.
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For sure. There are always growing pains.
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