The content is in the pre author note ^

  In all seriousness though I am working on updating a lot of non-content material and touching up the first arc of book 2. I hope you are all looking forward to reading it!

  Since we need 500 characters here I can give a brief overview on how AI is actually being used here and how my custom workflow works.

  I don't use AI to actually write the content, frankly it's awful at it, and we've already far exceeded the point where any model can maintain coherence anyways.

  What I do do is use it to assist in analysis, research and copy editing.

  I use a custom agentic flow to read my own story and alert me if I made a continuity/timeline error and to track treads and let me know if I dropped something I didn't intend to.

  For research I've found its a solid replacement for contextual research, if I needed to google details from multiple different framing angles AI does that much better. However its vital to validate those AI results by reading the primary sources becouse its often confidently wrong. Its particularly enjoyable to analyze historical events so long as you don't compromise on methodology or it'll just.... agree with whatever you suggest.

  The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.

  I seem to be particularly bad at spelling and punctuation, especially when I switched from using markdown editors to google docs to .txt files and I lost the ability of spell check and auto-correct.

  You might be wondering why I switched? Version Control.

  I lost a few paragraphs on google docs and was forced to re-write a chapter when editing book 1. In that moment I decided to use github in order to get fine grain diffs I can revert to and restore.

  It was much easier to read a txt file without md headers and just paste the whole thing in here. Your milage may vary.