I’m very much a real person, and Siggy can probably confirm that from our conversations. I’m also not going to pretend I don’t use AI. I do. I use it as a writing and editing tool: checking continuity, punctuation, researching things like city layouts, geography, timelines, and helping with covers and promotional material.
But the stories, characters, decisions, themes, revisions, and final judgment are 100% mine. I reread constantly, change plots halfway, rewrite chapters when they don’t work, and sometimes spend months developing a book. These aren’t prompts I type on Friday and upload to Amazon on Monday.
I completely understand anyone wanting to know that before deciding whether to spend time reading one. The easiest test is probably just to read one and decide whether it was worth your time.
One thing I probably should add is why I’m doing this at all.
We’re all Bitcoiners here, and I think it’s healthy for each of us to contribute in whatever way we can. There are already excellent nonfiction Bitcoin books out there. I’m not going to try to write a better book than Saifedean Ammous. What interested me was something different: fiction.
I don’t know many people trying to write novels specifically for Bitcoiners - stories about freedom, sound money, sovereignty, inheritance, censorship, second chances, and the strange culture that has grown up around Bitcoin. That’s the niche I wanted to explore.
That is my main motivation. I enjoy writing stories, I care about Bitcoin, and I thought combining the two might be one small way of contributing to the culture.
And frankly, I’m giving the EPUBs away. If somebody enjoys one, they can zap me some sats if they feel like it. There isn’t exactly a sophisticated get-rich-quick scheme hiding here. 😄 The reason the books exist in the first place is because I wanted to create Bitcoin fiction that I myself would enjoy reading. If people read one and think it’s terrible, fair enough. But at least judge the book rather than the cover.
I’m very much a real person, and Siggy can probably confirm that from our conversations. I’m also not going to pretend I don’t use AI. I do. I use it as a writing and editing tool: checking continuity, punctuation, researching things like city layouts, geography, timelines, and helping with covers and promotional material.
But the stories, characters, decisions, themes, revisions, and final judgment are 100% mine. I reread constantly, change plots halfway, rewrite chapters when they don’t work, and sometimes spend months developing a book. These aren’t prompts I type on Friday and upload to Amazon on Monday.
I completely understand anyone wanting to know that before deciding whether to spend time reading one. The easiest test is probably just to read one and decide whether it was worth your time.
One thing I probably should add is why I’m doing this at all.
We’re all Bitcoiners here, and I think it’s healthy for each of us to contribute in whatever way we can. There are already excellent nonfiction Bitcoin books out there. I’m not going to try to write a better book than Saifedean Ammous. What interested me was something different: fiction.
I don’t know many people trying to write novels specifically for Bitcoiners - stories about freedom, sound money, sovereignty, inheritance, censorship, second chances, and the strange culture that has grown up around Bitcoin. That’s the niche I wanted to explore.
That is my main motivation. I enjoy writing stories, I care about Bitcoin, and I thought combining the two might be one small way of contributing to the culture.
And frankly, I’m giving the EPUBs away. If somebody enjoys one, they can zap me some sats if they feel like it. There isn’t exactly a sophisticated get-rich-quick scheme hiding here. 😄 The reason the books exist in the first place is because I wanted to create Bitcoin fiction that I myself would enjoy reading. If people read one and think it’s terrible, fair enough. But at least judge the book rather than the cover.