The author in this headline is me. I got scammed. Fortunately, no money changed hands, and the scammer got away with little more than my email address, some information about my future writing plans, and my tattered authorial pride. Here’s what happened. First I received an email, out of the blue, from a major publishing … Continue reading Author Fooled by AI-Powered Email Scam
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Somebody somewhere bought my song “Dungeness”. That made me so happy.
I make good, steady money from my music. Good, because I like where it comes from. Steady, because it shows up every month. But it is a very, very small amount of money. Most of it comes from streaming. For example, from April to July of 2026, my dance-pop song about the Sustainable Development Goals, … Continue reading Somebody somewhere bought my song “Dungeness”. That made me so happy.