J.P. Stewart 💙

New horror book by me. 🍀80 Irish setting 👾Eldritch monster 🤡Disguised as imaginary friend 👦Child in danger 😨Part horror part mystery 🥼Evil scientists 👮‍♀️Unlikely teacher/cop team try to save the town It'd make my day You can get MAW for £2.99 👇👇 amazon.co.uk/Maw-J-P-Stewart…

10 years ago: I joined Scribophile to learn how to write. I met a group of aspiring authors, trying to their books completed and polished. We supported each other through thick and thin. Now: in 9 days I'll be the last of us to have their book out in the world. Keep going.

Hypothetical question for the writers. What would you write next if you knew you couldn't fail?

I'm old enough to remember when "getting blocked" had nothing to do with social media and everything to do with drinking until you did some proper damage.

Horror book. Debut. Small town. Irish setting. Mysterious boy. Imaginary friend. Friend not so imaginary. Much supernatural shenanigans. Live in 9 days - hurray! amazon.co.uk/Maw-J-P-Stewart…

I took time off work recently because of burn out. Took three weeks rest and used the time to polish up Maw and get it ready to self-publish. Goes live in 9 days. Never felt better. The day job & life often means putting writing on hold, so its been really nice to jump back in.

"Write drunk, edit sober." This was writing advice for a time meant to help motivate writers. Have you ever tried writing drunk? Like proper blootered? You can't edit that stuff. It's barely words at all.

Indie and self-pubbed books seem to have this wobbly reputation with some pockets of twitter but tbh its never been my experience. The indie pubbed books I've enjoyed over the last few years were polished, creative, experimental and confidently executed. Am I alone?

When I buy a book, there's this sense of expectation. I see a cover. A blurb. A feeling of wanting to jump into someone's story. Their story. A a sense of what journey another person is going to take me on. When I see a "book", "written", by AI.... get in the fucking bin.

I think a book is better than an ebook. I prefer the weight of a book in your hands. The way the pages left decreases, giving you a sense of how much story you have left. The smell of the pages. The sight of the book itself on your shelf after youre done. Can't beat it.

Imagine being ai bro this morning who relies on copilot to write their books for them.

Folks if you're "using ai as a tool to write the book" then ai is writing the book. You are an unpaid ai author's editor, editing words it's scraped from books written by people who could write. Every bad indie book written by a person is worth more than the best ai book.

Writing user stories is not as fun as writing horror or fantasy stories. A chilling glimpse into my day job....

If the market continues to flood with ai books and ai keeps training itself on the market, eventually the books will not only suck but rapidly decline & degrade & thus Real books will stick out like a sore thumb. The definitive article amongst a horde of knock offs. #optimitism

The best new books I've read in the last 5 years are all book from indie authors either self-pubbed or pubbed through small presses. That must mean something, right.

It has been suggested that I make a book trailer for MAW. I've never done that before and have no interest in using ai to create music or visuals. I'm sorely tempted to give it a go just to see how much of a car crash it could be.

"Thank God this week's nearly over." "It's Wednesday..." "I know but I'm off on Friday and have no intention of being productive tomorrow."