Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is a trending topic these days, with applications like ChatGPT and Jasper being touted as replacements for human writers. These applications are models trained on a large codex of text data that can generate responses to questions, summarize long texts, write stories and much more....
Artificial Intelligence – Can You Replace An Author’s Creativity? By BC Deeks, Paranormal Mystery Fiction Author
If there’s magic, is it still a mystery?
From the time I read my first Nancy Drew Mystery, I was hooked on the puzzles that are at the root of every mystery book. From Nancy, I moved on to my brothers’ stack of The Hardy Boys, dived into my best friend’s collection of Agatha Christies, and the...
Animal Friends in Life and Literature
Growing up my favorite fluffy toy was a purple bunny, but we only had stray cats as pets. I was well into adulthood before I realized how much I love animals of all sizes. It wasn’t until I transitioned to a writing career that our lifestyle could provide a stable...
Keeping Magical Secrets
When I’m immersed in a new story as an author, the characters become quite real to me. In WITCH UNBOUND, Book 1 of my Beyond the Magic series, my main characters, and even the dog, are not what they seem. Hiding your identity can be tricky, even for a...
Author BC Deeks Can Continue Her Writing and Art with Assistive Technology
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the arthritis in my neck pinched off nerves, leaving me without use of my dominant arm and hand. It was the ‘last straw’ in my struggle to push through my obstacles to continue my writing career. I had struggled with lifelong benign familial...