Old writer back from the dead…
On a good day, my typical Facebook post gets a few hundred views and a handful of thumbs. Well, I put one up on a Wednesday morning in July and it did 3,847 views, 404 clicks, and 88 comments. Nearly ten times my normal reach, and I’m still answering comments on it several weeks later. … Read more
I gave away 991 copies of my book in two days, made zero sales, and got exactly one review for my trouble. And it wasn’t from a stranger. That’s the headline. Everything below is me trying to figure out what it means, and I’ll warn you up front that the answer turned out to be … Read more
TL;DR: The White Whale is a 105,000-word modern thriller adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, written by 78-year-old horror novelist Chet Day in transparent collaboration with Anthropic’s Claude AI. It preserves Melville’s characters, themes, and ambiguity while cutting the digressions that make the original the most frequently abandoned classic novel in English. Available now from CasaDay … Read more