3/14/26

Already have today’s Patreon content posted, and it’s barely 9am. Lombardo and I were supposed to go to Delaware today for DEAD FORMAT, but now we don’t have to, so plans for the rest of the day are to spend some time with my youngest son, and then later this afternoon put together tomorrow’s newsletter. I may also take a look at me and Laurel Hightower’s collaboration (which she just sent back to me yesterday).

It was a productive week, overall, and I’m satisfied with it. Banged out several commissioned LOST LEVEL stories, worked on FALLING ANGELS and OPERATION LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK, and a bunch of behind the scenes DEAD FORMAT stuff.

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In today’s F.A.F.O. news, BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI. Sorry to hear that people are losing their jobs, but… <shrugs>

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I wrote in a recent Sunday newsletter about why — from an artist’s standpoint — I was stopping using Spotify and pivoting to Sirius/XM satellite radio instead. Now, courtesy of David J. Schow and Chet Williamson, comes these two interesting articles:

Spotify Is Enabling MASSIVE Impersonation Of Real Artists

and

A Billion Streams and No Fans: Inside A $10 million AI Music Fraud Case

(If you hit a paywall with that article, here’s another write-up).

It stands to reason that same scam is already taking place in publishing, most likely via some scumbag utilizing Amazon’s KDP platform.

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Speaking of Sirius/XM, this was a wonderful way to start my morning, when I woke up at 5am and realized I had no coffee and had to venture outside in the dark to go forage for some.