Creatorwood is a platform that turns books, scripts, and any written story into movies with AI. The ‘Movie Machine’ integrates with the top AI video, image, audio, and storytelling models to help transform your writing into immersive worlds, incredible characters, and gripping films with significantly less time and cost. In this article, I summarise how this platform originated and what they are useful for. What is going beyond the book? You don’t say you’re only a book author. It means taking a story’s characters and uploading it to Character AI for fans to play with, says Ross. Or creating something further in nonfiction — taking the main message and filming episodes in narrative style. This is a notion talked about on the Creatorwood Podcast (E46) Going Beyond the Book is the Future of Storytelling. Interview also says he needed to…

We all start with marketing somewhere, and I was a floundering beginner for many years. My first attempt: digital printing to self-publish a book in 1996 called The Total Image Manual. I sold it through flyers to business boxes and a very expensive print ad. Thankfully, options have gotten less risky in the book marketing game and now we can leverage a personal brand, upload to YouTube, and if clever in angling it, seek free mass media coverage. Actioning a Marketing & Media Plan You may already realise that taking a book to market is one of the hardest parts of being an author. It is hard to both plan the right tactics for you (tailored to your strengths) and confidently carry out those promotion tactics, week after week.  It brings out our inner imposter or makes us feel like a…