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This is probably just for fun now.

But Caxton's successor at the Printshop of Legend was named Wynkyn de Worde?!? C'mon. The Wikipedia page for this publisher (nudge nudge wink wink) has about si ...

I would guess the Hebrew word is the specific allusion within Cax-ton, given that (per Edwin Johnson), Caxton's Chronicle of England was printed at a Benedictine abbey -- clueing us into the source of ...

Perhaps this is a stretch, given that it rides on my own particular hobby horse, but William Caxton simply has to be a pseudonym.

First, he's the first, legendary (?) printer in England, and pr ...

Plato, founder of platonism
Pletho, main proponent of Neo-Platonism

Their students:

Aristotle, name means aristos ("noble") + telos ("purpose"), rejected his famous teacher' ...

I need to find it to quote exactly, but there's the early mention of Tacitus, where he's listed along with two other clearly pseudonymous names. Tacitus = silent, because to the Renaissance, his wor ...

I'm reading Edwin Johnson again and he points out that Bede just means prayer (as in "bid"). Do you Brits have any real names? Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Bede are about as believable as " ...

Questions...

?? Mind ?? -- The ability to watch a television show or movie in any fictional genre and forget that these are actors, that there's a camera crew and various people present, and that n ...

1. A US cabinet minister is addressing a small crowd of journalists about the LA riots in a small room in LA.
2. A middle aged bloke in a windcheater enters the room and starts heckling the cabinet m ...

Campaign Trail...leading nowhere

I set up a $20/day max budget to have an ad campaign that injects my book into the searches of unsuspecting Amazon users. The system allows you to pay a few cents f ...

That's why I now use The Applied Epistemology Library as my publishing imprint.
I learned the hard way that if you are cheap and take Kindle up on its "free ISBN," then you don't get to ass ...

Last thought, for now. You don't actually need the paid subscription to ChatGPT to generate images. But there is a limit to the number you can generate in a 24-hour period on the unpaid version.

B ...

Here is the final result. (I can't find a free photo-hosting site that I want to stick my data into, so if anyone has a suggestion, I'll post up some of ChatGPT's other results for this cover)

http ...

I played with monochrome, then colored pencil, then pen and ink stippling, then engraving, even scrimshaw to get that scratched look. ChatGPT handled these all well (except for scrimshaw, which it cou ...

ChatGPT Prompts for book covers

This will be mildly shameless, in that I'm going to post up a link to my own book in order to show you how ChatGPT interpreted the prompts I gave it. Of course, feel ...

one month subscription to an AI platform to generate your cover image
I (we?) need all the help we can get from this direction.
I will post up some lessons learned on AI prompts and the actions you ...

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Topic: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 2:22 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	This is probably just for fun now. But Caxton's successor at the Printshop of Legend was named Wynkyn de Worde?!? C'mon. The Wikipedia page for this publisher (nudge nudge wink wink) has about si ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 2:14 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	I would guess the Hebrew word is the specific allusion within Cax-ton, given that (per Edwin Johnson), Caxton's Chronicle of England was printed at a Benedictine abbey -- clueing us into the source of ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 2:06 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	Perhaps this is a stretch, given that it rides on my own particular hobby horse, but William Caxton simply has to be a pseudonym. First, he's the first, legendary (?) printer in England, and pr ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 1:42 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	Plato, founder of platonism Pletho, main proponent of Neo-Platonism Their students: Aristotle, name means aristos ("noble") + telos ("purpose"), rejected his famous teacher' ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 1:00 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	I need to find it to quote exactly, but there's the early mention of Tacitus, where he's listed along with two other clearly pseudonymous names. Tacitus = silent, because to the Renaissance, his wor ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 2:08 am Subject: Flying Chaucers
Pete Jones Replies: 1156 Views: 668253	I'm reading Edwin Johnson again and he points out that Bede just means prayer (as in "bid"). Do you Brits have any real names? Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Bede are about as believable as " ...
Topic: Mind & Brain
Pete Jones Replies: 201 Views: 78749	Forum: Psychology Posted: 5:22 pm Subject: Mind & Brain
Pete Jones Replies: 201 Views: 78749	Questions... ?? Mind ?? -- The ability to watch a television show or movie in any fictional genre and forget that these are actors, that there's a camera crew and various people present, and that n ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Pete Jones Replies: 5212 Views: 2661619	Forum: Politics Posted: 4:09 pm Subject: Questions Of The Day
Pete Jones Replies: 5212 Views: 2661619	1. A US cabinet minister is addressing a small crowd of journalists about the LA riots in a small room in LA. 2. A middle aged bloke in a windcheater enters the room and starts heckling the cabinet m ...
Topic: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 1:42 pm Subject: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Campaign Trail...leading nowhere I set up a $20/day max budget to have an ad campaign that injects my book into the searches of unsuspecting Amazon users. The system allows you to pay a few cents f ...
Topic: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:04 pm Subject: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	That's why I now use The Applied Epistemology Library as my publishing imprint. I learned the hard way that if you are cheap and take Kindle up on its "free ISBN," then you don't get to ass ...
Topic: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:58 pm Subject: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Last thought, for now. You don't actually need the paid subscription to ChatGPT to generate images. But there is a limit to the number you can generate in a 24-hour period on the unpaid version. B ...
Topic: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:48 pm Subject: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Here is the final result. (I can't find a free photo-hosting site that I want to stick my data into, so if anyone has a suggestion, I'll post up some of ChatGPT's other results for this cover) http ...
Topic: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:44 pm Subject: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	I played with monochrome, then colored pencil, then pen and ink stippling, then engraving, even scrimshaw to get that scratched look. ChatGPT handled these all well (except for scrimshaw, which it cou ...
Topic: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:03 pm Subject: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	ChatGPT Prompts for book covers This will be mildly shameless, in that I'm going to post up a link to my own book in order to show you how ChatGPT interpreted the prompts I gave it. Of course, feel ...
Topic: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:29 pm Subject: Rejections R Us
Pete Jones Replies: 44 Views: 9763	one month subscription to an AI platform to generate your cover image I (we?) need all the help we can get from this direction. I will post up some lessons learned on AI prompts and the actions you ...