C.L. Moutzalias

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Hello friends! After a LOT of research, I've settled on Kit for my email/newsletter subscription service. If you've been around awhile, you may recall that I had a growing subscriber list on Mailchimp that was over 500 followers strong. And then Mailchimp yeeted my account for reasons unknown. So, after a lot of swearing and crying and hairpulling, I'm pulling up my big girl panties and starting over. I'm really impressed with Kit. I'm on the free plan for now and it's quite generous allowing me 10k subscribers and unlimited emails per month. That's a far cry from Mailchimp. So, if you would like to sign up for my newsletter where I'll be sharing exclusive writing updates, behind the scenes, worldbuilding, character bios and art, etc. then click the link below and sign up!

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Say! Did you notice the new feature at the top of the Inkitt? We have audiobooks now! I was curious how this worked, so I decided to play with it a bit. I'm going to give you my honest feedback --
1. It's very expensive. You have to pay to play. It seems the amount Inkitt charges you to create an audiobook depends on the size of your book. Chapter 1 of Gemma Draconica cost me $10. It would cost me well over $100 to turn my entire book into an audiobook. Is it worth it? Frankly, no. The voices sound very AI. The range is limited. While there are a lot of options to choose from, I thought they all sounded too similar. And none of them sounded like my characters. Once you pick the voices for your character, it's time to generate the audio book and then edit it. It took about 5 minutes to generate Chapter 1, but I will have hours of editing before I would ever considering hitting publish. So, in short, I don't think AI is going to replace human voices anytime soon. And if you're thinking about doing this, you have to either accept you are sinking cost into the project you will never see returned, or you are going to have to charge a lot of money for your audiobook. And, I'm not sure how many readers would be willing to spend a small fortune on an audiobook. Curious if you've tried this feature and what you think?

Hey there! I’ve got a lot of new followers this weekend. Sooo tell me what your favorite book on Inkitt is.

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great holiday weekend. My daughter and I saw Young Washington on July 4. Great movie! If you get the chance I highly recommend you go see it. Writing update, I’ve been fighting with a chapter revision all week. Started, stopped, hated it. Rinse and repeat. I’ll get it. But...UGH! I decided to work on resurrecting my author newsletter in the meantime and to my surprise, mailchimp suspended my account! I checked my emails for a notification from them. Because surely they would have sent a notification saying they were suspending my account and telling me why? Nothing. No email. There’s a message on what used to be my landing page telling me I can contact mailchimp to ask why my account was suspended. I’m not sure I want to. I’m a bit disgusted. I had almost 700 email addresses on that list and now its gone. There are other newsletter platforms out there. I think I’m going to check them out. So whats everybody reading this summer? I’m doing my second annual cowboy summer where I put away all my romantasy and fantasy novels and read cowboy smut/western romance. I’m having as much fun this year as I did last summer. If you know any good western romance books here on Inkitt drop them in the comments for me. Have a great week XOXO

Another weekend of revising. I’m 3 chapters closer to the midpoint of the beta draft of Gemma Draconica. These 3 chapters were HARD this weekend. I didn’t have writers block. I knew what each chapter needed to do and where it needed to go. But when I sat down to write, the words just didn’t flow. It was a struggle. I’d hoped to get more than three chapters done but eh, I’ll take the fact that I got my scheduled chapters complete as a win. Someone asked me what happens after this draft. Well, here’s the plan. I’ll leave the beta draft alone for the rest of the year. I’ll finish the alpha draft of Wildfire Rekindled. Then, I’ll look at the feedback for the GD beta draft and compile a list. Then, I plan on hiring an editor. I’ll share the beta feedback with them, get their developmental feedback and then work on the gamma draft. After this draft I will have done all the self-editing I can. And this is a hill I will did on— you cannot replace human editors with AI anymore than you can replace writers. And while the editor is reviewing GD. I’ll be plotting book 2. But for now, its time to get ready for the muggle job. XOXO

A lil peek into my writing process. I have my alpha feedback compiled into a bulleted list of points, and I plan my chapters out on a sheet of notebook paper with a felt tip pen.

Happy Monday! It was a productive weekend. I started fixing the “saggy middle” of Gemma Draconica. Wrote a completely new scene and I love it! Now its back to the muggle job