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It’s a Smashing Discount at Smashwords!
It’s a Smashing Discount on Smashwords!
You can get seven of my book on Smashwords for 50 percent off through May! Settle in for a few nights of mystery and suspense at half the cost. CLICK HERE.
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WondervoxAI and MadeMark Publishing Now Offer Content Creation
That didn’t take long! MadeMark Publishing and WondervoxAI now offer content creation for your website. This can include audio supplements to your blog posts, articles and columns. For some examples:
5 Tips for Promoting Your Podcast
Podcasting is more popular than ever, with over a million podcasts available on different platforms. With such a vast number of podcasts competing for listenership, it’s important to promote your podcast effectively. Here are five tips to help you increase your audience and grow your podcast.
1. Optimize Your Podcast for SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to the techniques used to improve your ranking on search engine result pages. Optimizing your podcast for SEO involves creating relevant and informative titles and descriptions that use keywords effectively. Add a detailed description of your podcast and include links to relevant websites or social media accounts. Be sure to include your podcast’s name, as well as the names of key contributors and topics you cover.
My Date with AI: Some Words About Self-Publishing from My Ghost Writer Robot
Why Self-Publishing is a Great Option for Authors
As a writer, you have a lot of options for getting your work out there. You can go the traditional publishing route, but that can be a long and difficult journey. There’s also the option to self-publish. While it might seem daunting at first, self-publishing can be an incredible option for many authors. Here are just a few of the reasons why.
Control
One of the biggest benefits of self-publishing is the control you have over your work. You get to decide how your book looks, what it says, and how it’s marketed. This can be an incredible opportunity for authors who are tired of struggling to get their voice heard in the traditional publishing world. With self-publishing, you get to take control of your career and your work.
Contact: Mark @ WondervoxAI .com
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Mark McNease On Substack: Las Vegas Turnaround
Hey, there, what’s that sound … It’s Robot Anthony, of course!
I Do My Hair Toss …
Tennessee Tried to Ban Drag Shows. So Lizzo Invited Drag Queens Onstage
How much do I love this woman? The answer is not to cancel Pride parades (I’m looking at you, Port St. Lucie) but to have 10,000 people show up in drag and say, “So f**king arrest us.” To the gays I’ve seen commenting elsewhere that we’ve catered to the “extremists” among us: who the hell do you think fought back at Stonewall? It wasn’t your Brooks Brothers, Martha Stewart, tastefully married asses. It was the drag queens and the transsexuals, so sit down and shut up. We don’t need your approval and we will never have theirs.
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5 Tips for Promoting Your Podcast
Audio by WondervoxAI
Following is my second AI-generated blog post using Jasper. Seamless, accurate, impressive. You can sign up for Jasper and get 10,000 free credits with this referral link!
5 Tips to Effectively Promote Your Podcast
Podcasting is more popular than ever, with over a million podcasts available on different platforms. With such a vast number of podcasts competing for listenership, it’s important to promote your podcast effectively. Here are five tips to help you increase your audience and grow your podcast.
1. Optimize Your Podcast for SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to the techniques used to improve your ranking on search engine result pages. Optimizing your podcast for SEO involves creating relevant and informative titles and descriptions that use keywords effectively. Add a detailed description of your podcast and include links to relevant websites or social media accounts. Be sure to include your podcast’s name, as well as the names of key contributors and topics you cover.
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My Date with AI: Some Words About Self-Publishing from My Ghost Writer Robot
Audio narration by WondervoxAI
I embrace technology, and new advances mean new creative opportunities for me. This includes the AI/synthetic voice narration through my WondervoxAi venture (using Eleven Labs). All of my Mark McNease on Topic Substacks now include audio supplements narrated by androids, and the audiobook edition of my latest book, Final Audition: A Marshall James Thriller, is coming out with AI narration so good you’ll be challenged to tell the difference. I’m also embracing AI writing. It’s the future, and it’s here now.
Everything changes. Authors can self-publish. Musicians don’t need labels. Everybody streams. And I invite technological change into my create-o-sphere because it keeps me challenged and it’s exciting to the imaginative mind. In that vein … here is an article about self-publishing that was just written using Jasper, and it was born fully formed within minutes. Fear not, stay on the tip, explore and expand with exuberance. – The Real Mark
Why Self-Publishing is a Great Option for Authors
As a writer, you have a lot of options for getting your work out there. You can go the traditional publishing route, but that can be a long and difficult journey. There’s also the option to self-publish. While it might seem daunting at first, self-publishing can be an incredible option for many authors. Here are just a few of the reasons why.
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Savvy Senior: Fun Part-Time Jobs Ideas for Retirees
By Jim Miller
Dear Savvy Senior,
As a 68-year-old retiree, I’m interested in finding a fun part-time job that can occupy some of my time and generate a little extra income. Can you write a column on low-stress part-time jobs that are popular among retirees?
Part-Time Retiree
Dear Retiree,
Working part-time in retirement can be a terrific way to occupy your time and earn some extra income. The key, however, is finding the right gig that’s fun and satisfying for you. While there are literally hundreds of different part-time job opportunities out there for retirees, here are a few possibilities to explore.
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Mark McNease on Topic: A Million More Marthas
The following is from Mark McNease on Topic. Subscribe here for twice-weekly braintinis.
Prefer to listen? Enjoy your audio side dish, delivered with the soothing sounds of Android Anthony. I’m growing very fond of this guy …
Thank you to new paid subscribers Ron and Tim! You have a lifetime VIP pass to my heart. – Mark
The World Needs Heroes: Meet Martha Hickson
We went to the Hunterdon Democratic Committee spring brunch on Sunday. That’s the county we live in. One of the panel speakers was the amazing Martha Hickson, a school librarian and fierce advocate for kids’ right to read. Her story is harrowing and full of heroism, as she survived a MAGA onslaught to fight another day, and another. She was the 2022 recipient of the Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity, and she speaks with the kind of dedication and experience we need in these book-banning times. Children are not property. ‘Parental rights’ include the right to have your children given access to knowledge. And fire must be fought with fire, which Martha has an abundance of. We need a million more (we’re working on it!).
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‘Final Audition: A Marshall James Thriller’ Audiobook Coming Soon (Narrated by WondervoxAI)
Coming in May: the audiobook edition of Final Audition: A Marshall James Thriller, narrated by my very own WondervoxAI. Look for it on Kobo and anywhere else that accepts AI narration. Embrace the future … Meanwhile, enjoy this first-chapter sample.
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The Twist Podcast #222: Smells Like Theocracy, Tennessee Tussle, Hapless Headlines, and a New Guest Listicle!
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take aim at religious extremists masquerading as judges, fist pump the Tennessee Three (No Justins, No Peace!), and discover the best things about Eurovision from listener Charlie.
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Mark McNease On Topic: Rush the Well
From my Monday Musings / Substack
Grand Inquisitor Torquemada smiles from the grave.
At what point does despair become determination? At what point does fear become ferocity? At what point do we, as the Tennessee Three did, ‘rush the well?’
One man in a robe is poised to impose his religious beliefs on the entire nation. He has made no secret of his beliefs, and has attempted to couch them in legalize so specious it exposes his contempt for those who don’t share his magical thinking, and those who would defy him. But that is what must be done – if not now, then when the next theo-judge takes medication for HIV off the market, and gender-affirming medications off the market, and contraception off the market. Do NOT think for a nanosecond this is not the plan. The opponents of our freedoms and rights, the haters of the progress we’ve made over the past 75 years, are organized and determined. They have plans, we have rose-colored glasses. They have bullet points, we have daisies to slip into the ends of rifles. They call us groomers and pedophiles, we call them unfair. The only thing they fight with thoughts and prayers are the near-daily mass slaughter of men, women and children by assault rifles. For every other battle they come heavily armed.
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Mark McNease On Topic: Crossfire Hurricane
From the Substack Mark McNease On Topic. Subscribe for twice-weekly goodies bags.
For all the times I said I would cheer when the day came, the indictment of Donald Trump did not feel celebratory. It felt like a sad day in a tawdry story that has no ending. Will they shoot to kill? Will they shoot at all? Will they ramp up their anti-trans hysteria, blaming the weakest, most vulnerable people they can still pummel while polite society remains glued to TikTok? Right-wing gadfly Ben Shapiro declares that trans people should be barred from owning guns. Not such a 2nd Amendment absolutist after all, is he?
I’m really an optimist. I think we live once, and only once, in our present incarnations. What happens when the lights go out, I don’t care and I don’t think about. I may stare awestruck at the silent void when I’m inches from it, but the whole “where do we go when we die” question has as much meaning for me as “is there a god?” It’s reported that when asked if god exists, Buddha replied with silence. I think that’s the perfect response: it exists if it matters to you that it exists.
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The Twist Podcast #221: Kimberly Akimbo Kills It, Hop Seltzer Sensations, Headlines and a Guest Listicle!
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we sing the praises of Broadway’s Kimberly Akimbo, offer up the new taste sensation of hops water, listen to a guest listicle, and scan the heinous headlines!
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Dystopia Cornucopia! April Book Funnel Promo for Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Thrillers
Party like it’s the end of the world with dozens of free dystopian and post-apocalyptic thrillers. This includes my own Rough and Tumble, along with books and stories by H.G. Kelly, Nicholas P. Adams, Suzanne Jenkins, Angela R. Watts, Colby Rice, Jami Gray, and many more! JUST CLICK HERE and start downloading.
About Rough and Tumble
“Rough and Tumble were not their names by birth.” Boy meets boy at the end of civilization in this extended short story. The year is distant, the reality of those living appears dark and harsh. Among them, surviving by wit and easy violence, are Rough and Tumble, two young men whose lives became entwined so long ago neither of them remembers exactly when, only that it was love at first sight. Now, as Rough imagines an escape from the Slopes, the area they live and expect to die in, he yearns to take Tumble with him. But is it possible? Does Tumble want to go across the murky water, too, or are dreams for the foolish and the dying? Join them as they go on a last nightly prowl, looking for loot and any way out.
