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New Requested Feature
Chapter Renumbering! Right Click on a folder of files in your book and there is a new option "Renumber Chapters"! This will rename and renumber all of the files in the folder in the order they are found in, so you do have to rearrange the files by hand so they are in the order you want them in. Before After Ch. 7 - The Fall Chapter 1 - The Fall chapter two: Smoke. Chapter 2: Smoke 03 Homecoming. Chapter 3 Homecoming The Long Road. Chapter 4 The Long Road 1984 Chapter 5 1984 Let me know what else you need or if this needs more options
New Requested Feature
5 likes • 16h
Oh cool. I was just working on chapters last night and wished for something like this. Whoo hoo!💕
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Thank you. Thank you.
Book feed
I'm going to pin this to the beginning of the page and would like it see if everyone wanted to post their books that they've written on here. You can post as many links as you want as often as you want. I'd like to celebrate wins for everyone!
Book feed
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Yes!!! I would love to post when I have them published. This is such a good idea to help us cross promote one another with our newsletters. 💕
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@Michael Culp Hey real quick, Your The Hollow Bean Book 1 link goes to your Sell it Again book. 😊
Everyone Got the Claude Watermark Wrong
This is the first of many things that came of this weekend's research run and using my Claude time for the week in two days! Close to 4000 emails were analyzed, combined organized and what came of it is 4 books, 24 articles and a possible future class for sale. This is the article that created the Provenance Assurance Layer in WCP. ***** In August, one of the largest online-writing schools told its list that Anthropic's new watermarking would punish lazy writers and reward everyone else. Copy and paste straight from Claude, you get marked. Use AI the smart way, for brainstorming and remixing and expanding your own drafts, and you're fine. It's a comforting argument. It's also wrong, and it's wrong in a way that matters if you write books. I wrote a first version of this correction the week the announcement landed, and I got half of it right. This is the version with the other half in it. What happened in August On 11 August 2026, Anthropic confirmed it would embed machine-readable marks in content Claude generates or processes. Text carries an imperceptible watermark. Files carry signed provenance metadata using the C2PA standard. Almost nobody covering this mentioned why it happened. Compliance drove it. Article 50 of the EU AI Act obliges providers to mark synthetic content in a machine-readable format, and those transparency obligations took effect on 2 August 2026. Anthropic signed the associated Code of Practice in July, alongside roughly 190 other signatories. Behind Article 50 sit fines of up to 15 million euros or 3 percent of worldwide turnover. That distinction matters, because a company acting on principle can change its mind. A company acting on regulation cannot, and every other major provider carries the same obligation. Models launched on or after 2 August support marking at launch, and as of early September the two Anthropic names in that group are both from its 5.1 generation. Older models sit in a transition period with 2 December 2026 attached to it. That date comes from the AI Omnibus provisional agreement reached in May 2026, which gives generative systems already on the market before 2 August until then to meet the machine-readable marking requirement. It's a grace period with a statute behind it, not a deadline someone picked.
Everyone Got the Claude Watermark Wrong
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This is a nice article @Michael Culp, thank you for detailing the current self-publishing/AI battle. And for providing us with a solution. I loved how you spelled out the options: evasion, denial or provenance. I tend to want to live in denial and evasion. I am grateful other's are thinking ahead for those of us who love to live in denial 98% of the time and evasion the other 2%. 😂
Working on Something New Today....
I know you all hear this a lot but this came from some of my current line of research and testing using email chains as source material for some new nonfiction books on writing and the author business in general but the number of times I have seen a half a dozen videos on AI publishing, the anthropic watermarks, and KDP banning accounts I thought this was needed. The watermarks were added due to a new European law, and if the other LLM providers are not already watermarking output they soon will have to for compliance with the law. I have another article on this coming soon. I went looking at my competition for both Bookweaver.pro which is tremendously under used right now and for WordCrafter.pro which already has features and dimensions no one else has hit (yet..it will happen). Only ONE has a "Rights Certificate". According to two of my legal friends this is a nice fiction that really says nothing. We can only copyright that portion of a manuscript that is written by human hands at this time, but how do you prove this? By building in a Provenance layer! This has several parts to it to be of real value and the last piece of it has to be done very carefully but is the most important. ****** Sidebar: Has anyone ever seen a "certified" psychic or tarot reader? Who certifies them and under what authority? I've always wondered this. And some will explain themselves with great authority. As a personal reveal, I collect and read tarot and have for many years and will always be "un-certified" (Also working on my own deck design). In the late 90's I even met a truly serious 9th generation High Priestess of Cthulhu that was in her early 20's. Some of you should be laughing here, for those that aren't: H.P. Lovecraft first wrote of the Elder God in 1926 and his short story "The Rats in the Walls" was my first introduction to true horror and still messes with me. ****** So certifications are important even if some of them are absurd.
Working on Something New Today....
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@Michael Culp thank you for creating this. This is been on my mind for months as I follow some other author communities. I had to stop listening to all the crazy chatter about AI writing regulations. It makes me want to quiet self publishers and writing to sell, all together. Here is my plan: gather enough reader base off of Amazon and then move to direct sales, as soon as I can. I am unsure if I will use it but I might. Here is my take, not that it matters. Author have used ghost writers since the dawn of time. Many, many famous authors have hired ghost writers and they have not needed to declare that fact. To me, getting all worked up about an author using AI to assist them with their writing is no different. But that’s just my humble opinion. I have crafted my AI usage statement for Substack, )which I have now decided I will not be in Substack) but I will post it on my website. I am sure there are plenty of readers out there who understand that AI assistance is not evil…at least I am hoping for that. 😂😂😂 Thanks again for thinking ahead for us all.
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@Michael Culp that is my major question too about how to get readers without Amazon and those social sites. I set up my site for direct sale. I have had books in Amazon, and the one thing I hate is that I cannot get those email addresses unless you have them sign up off your website (which created a workbook for my nonfiction book that I gathered email addresses to send to readers.) And I sold a lot of books, but with the royalties, made very little. There has to be a better way….and that is my goal this time with fiction is focusing. One idea I have been thinking about after my six week coaching I did with an author coach (which cost way too much for what it was…..) is to create a reader magnet and join newsletter swaps in my genre to establish readers in my mailing list. I am fine with doing that work to gather my ideal readers. I plan to only stay on Amazon until I have a few readers and then focusing on direct sale. I am fine with small growth. And social proof can be developed from only a handful of readers on your own website. Making 5 star graphics with quotes is an easy thing. Getting readers to start with is hard. But if we even get an handful from a few books on Amazon, then go direct after that to build from there, that may be best. But I will be curious to hear what you find out I your training. I found having an author coach network to do newsletter swaps is really helpful. And that may be my main marketing focus.
Show Your Work Saturday!
What has everyone been working on this week? For me it's been a whirlwind of updates, writing training materials, finishing another book and planning several more in the author series and continuing to figure out how to make videos. I've attached the truly rough cut 1st draft of the next author's book I mentioned in the "Wine & Star Trek" article. And the video below shows a few additional changes i made to tthe WCP main page. I moved a couple things around to make them a bit more intuitive and added.... TABS & TABLES!!!! (and the crowd goes wild).
Show Your Work Saturday!
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I am finishing edits if my novella and working in Substack discovery articles. I am on the fence about actually being on Substack. I am still considering. But the work will help me with my newsletter content if I decide not to be there.
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@Michael Culp I was there for my other non-fiction pen name. And I have a pretty good group of newsletter subscribers from that and my podcast I did, but I have not been there for fiction. I use Direct Mail for Mac and I love it, so I don't need Substack to that. I was just thinking if one place to gather new readers. I prefer to have people sign up on my mailing list vs. having Substack house all that. It's best for us to have all those email address somewhere else. You never know when Sunstack will change their rules. Or any social media platforms for that matter and emails are gold in our world. I hate social media and it feels so much like that. Plus they just launched a AI scanner for readers this summer which gives me the feeling of “AI haters” influencing the platform. We can shut it off of our articles, but the idea that authors are not authentic if they use AI really annoys me. 😏 Those are my reservations about it for now. We will see what I end up doing.
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Vikki Carter
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Author | Writer | AI enthusiast. Storyweaving, crafting, crocheting, and finding creative ways to grow without burning out.

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