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And it's out!

It finally happened! After 5 years of writing, editing, more editing, finding an agent, finding an author... My book has finally been published! I'm not going to lie, it's been a long and winding road - see my last post about writing it , and I'll follow up with another about the journey to publishing. But it's ultimately all worth it, you can buy my work at Amazon and a whole bunch of other retailers. A super rewarding experience! If you're interested, you can get a copy here: https://a.co/d/838Ijir (paperback or Kindle). Of course I'd be thrilled if you, dear reader, buy it and let me know what you think! Even better, leave a review on Amazon :) Any kind of feedback is highly appreciated, and I really mean it. I spent 5 years on that thing, at least I want to know whether people like it! I also created a custom homepage for it where you can get some additional info (more to be added over time): www.scaevola-conspiracy.com Enjoy!

Writing A Book

After focusing on the AI side of things over the  last few articles , it's time to circle back to the good old craft of writing. Like I mentioned a few articles back , I'm also an author who wrote a book (spoiler alert: it will be published very soon!). How did I decide to take on such a tedious yet fun endeavour and how did I actually pull it off? That's what this article is about. A book, are you crazy? Yepp, looking back it's certainly one of my crazier ideas. It all started with great news - my wife was pregnant with our first kid. As if I didn't knew I'd have a ton of sleepiness nights ahead of me, I decided to use my 14 weeks of paternity leave (thanks, Google!) for a personal project. Out of my usual comfort zone it was supposed to be, something different from my day to day work as a software engineer. I like reading, in particular thrillers, so hey why not try that myself? The idea of writing a novel was born. And like any other project, it needed prepar...