Shoved the most confused book (the Paris one) at the AI and it didn't tag it as Archaeological Thriller. It liked Adventure, Historical Mystery, and Cozy Mystery for this one. But it still name-checked Dan Brown. Ah, the flip side of stochastic algorithms. Sets containing "Adventure" and "Archaeology" will contain so many cites of "DaVinci Code" that's gonna weight the result something serious.
AI isn't about finding the best example, after all. It is about finding the average and then looking as much like that as possible. Plus a die roll.
So maybe I should wait for that developmental edit. But...after having to crawl through the whole Paris book because I'd never set up the file for exporting in rtf, I really don't feel like dealing with deep revisions.
The New Mexico book, maybe. It is still in draft.
Well, actually, it isn't finished. I'm at the climax but I have a whole Hello, Clarice to get through. And then I really do need to read my new book on Victorio, because I think my Mescalero Apache are acting out of character. And I got a coffee-table book on the Jornada (well, actually, on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro).
Anyhow, there are enough little problems with the other four books to make another edit round advisable. Preferably with a human, because fighting with an automated grammar checker over sentences in two languages in a dual-time novel with flashbacks is just not fun.
The only reason I'm worrying about cover artists now is I've got an order ongoing right now at 100 Covers. Oops.
And I've chosen titles. Not the best...just the best I could come up with:
The Gift of Athena
The Zero Room
The Mirror of Amaterasu
The Montmartre Treasure
The Drake Equation
One part thriller, one part archaeological thriller. Best I can do.
Really, I'm all about the next book right now. There's nothing I can do with the final chapter of the New Mexico book while I am walking or at work, but I can think world-building for "Blue" and take a few notes.
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