Charlie Hicks – Author
An Indie author sharing thoughts ideas and experiences
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I am very excited to announce the imminent release of my next book MacDonald’s Farm – Fleas Have Feeling Too! I am starting to get through a large backlog of books I wrote, but never really quite got around to doing the edits and preparations for publishing. I’ll be posting updates, and offering some promotional…
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Hi, well being broke makes you try different things than people who have large advertising budgets. But here is the thing, your audience still expects a certain level of professionalism. And without any budget that can be really hard to achieve. So I rethought about AI and its uses. For me it allows me to…
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Jones’ Bakery have release a shocking image of a recent incident where a small Black Pug raided it’s shop on the High Street and proceeded to eat all the sausage rolls and the tray they were served on. Mr Jones said about the incident; ‘He just pushed his way in to the shop, hopped up…
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Hi every one, well good news, I finally published this epic comic fantasy book – Ralph and the Four Unicorns of the Apocalypse. It should be available to purchase really soon using the link below. https://books2read.com/u/3JzRpP Time to get one with editing the next Book – The Phantom of the Nativity
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So I’ve been tinkering with the AI again late tonight, and have tweaked my previous and rather lame attempt at a book cover for my latest book ‘Ralph and the Four Unicorns of the Apocalypse. It had drama, a spaniel named Ralph, and Small hellhound in the form of a Pug, and of course Gordon…
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Chapter 1 There are many places in the world where one might reasonably expect to find the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. A battlefield, for instance.A plague‑ridden city.A motorway service station at 2 a.m. But on the particular Tuesday when the world’s doom was officially scheduled, the Horsemen were instead sitting in a rural Somerset…
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So I have tried and tried to not use AI, but here is the thing, It is just getting so good, and so cheap to use, that I have found myself questioning why I pay an exorbitant amount of money to editors and cover designers for stuff which cost pennies using AI. Now I know…
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Ralph and the Four Unicorns of the Apocalypse, 1st Draft completed I know it has been a long time since I last wrote on this blog, but I have been concentration on getting the 1st draft of my latest book complete. ‘Ralph and the Four Unicorns of the Apocalypse’ is a comedy/fantasy/fiction about how a…
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So I’ve been trying to work on a new project, a Novel. Some would say its a bit Orwellian, and In truth it is. But I’ve been struggling with it for the last couple of weeks. The premise of the story is that AI has already taken over control of the world, and us the…
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So I looked back and my last post was in August, and I want to apologise to anyone who may of been waiting for my next post. Life has a nasty habit of creeping up behind you and giving you a good hard kick up the arse sometimes, and September was just one of those…
Charlie Hicks - Author 