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0:00It's always a joy for me when a company
0:03makes changes that to their products or
0:05service that are so helpful that I feel
0:09like I can confidently recommend that
0:10product or service above any of the
0:12competitors.
0:14Of course, competition's always
0:15happening in business and things are
0:16always changing, especially in the world
0:18of AI.
0:19But I do try my best to give you my
0:21honest opinion on what is actually best
0:23in this moment. Uh and AutoCrit has
0:27recently made some changes that have
0:30made me incredibly excited for the
0:32future of AI, especially for editing,
0:34which has traditionally been something
0:36that AI is not great at.
0:39In this video, I'm going to walk you
0:40through some of these new features and I
0:42will show you why I'm so excited about
0:44them as well as the best way to get your
0:46hands on them. So, if you're unfamiliar
0:48with AutoCrit, uh this is what it looks
0:50like when you get to your dashboard. You
0:52will have recent files here, uh
0:54different projects that you're working
0:56on, novels and stuff like that. AutoCrit
0:58is an editing software uh that is mostly
1:01prescriptive. It gives you the tools and
1:04things to look for when you're going
1:06through your editing process and it kind
1:07of gives you a really solid
1:08understanding of what your book looks
1:10like in comparison to the competition uh
1:13in your genre and things like that. And
1:15this isn't going to be a full overview
1:16of AutoCrit, but um the I'll start just
1:20by saying it's not traditionally an AI
1:22software. It's not really what it's all
1:25about, but they have been incorporating
1:26AI in ways that I think are super smart
1:30and not just trying to shoehorn the AI
1:32in there, actually taking the time to
1:34really think through things and apply it
1:38in ways that fit the software
1:41and uh are genuinely useful. Most of the
1:44software out there just throws AI in and
1:48and is like, "Okay, we do AI now." Uh
1:50whereas AutoCrit has been very
1:51thoughtful about their implementation of
1:54AI. So, um what you want to do when you
1:57get into here is upload your book. You
1:59can do so by uploading a file here if
2:01you have the like in a word doc. You can
2:03create a blank a blank document in here.
2:05You can do a quick copy and paste, you
2:07know, whatever is best for you. And then
2:10um
2:10you'll pull the document into here. This
2:14is a book that I have
2:17uh worked on and actually
2:20because of some of the feedback I've
2:22gotten here inside of AutoCrit, I am
2:25actually planning a full from the ground
2:27up rewrite of this book and we'll walk
2:30through that so you can see why I'm
2:33thinking of doing that. So, this is a
2:36a book about Merlin, a young Merlin,
2:39and was originally envisioned as a
2:40middle grade novel because of, you know,
2:43I was thinking of him being like 12 or
2:4513 or so in the in the story. Let's
2:48actually walk through the new AI
2:50features that are here inside of
2:52AutoCrit. And the best way to get to
2:53them is over here on the side. You'll
2:55see up here we've got like notes. We've
2:57got the story builder. Let me see if I
3:00can zoom in just a little bit so you can
3:02see it better.
3:04That's too much.
3:06Okay. And then we have story analyzer.
3:09The one you want to look at is story
3:10analyzer. You click on that, it gives
3:12you a couple of new things. And all four
3:14of these are incredibly new and useful
3:17tools.
3:18I'm going to start with this one. This
3:20is alpha read and then go to this one
3:22which says beta read. They're similar,
3:24but they're a little bit different. So,
3:26if we click on alpha read, it pulls up
3:28this window right here.
3:30And you can also get the other ones that
3:32are up here as well. Uh so, these other
3:35options that we have here. We've got
3:37story analyzer.
3:39We've got alpha read, story analyzer
3:41plus, beta read, and market fuel. All of
3:43those are also up here. There's also a
3:45chapter analyzer here, which is kind of
3:47left over from an early version of this
3:50feature, but if you want to just like
3:52analyze chapters individually, you can
3:54do that, too.
3:55But let's start here with uh the alpha
3:57read and then we'll talk about the beta
3:59read. This is where you can essentially
4:02get alpha and beta readers of your book
4:06using AI to give you actual feedback
4:08that is useful, which, let's be honest,
4:11most beta readers do not give you useful
4:13advice. You have to really vet them to
4:16find the good ones and you need a lot of
4:18them to get a really good sense of
4:20whether your book is good or not.
4:22Another crucial feature of uh of a good
4:25set of alpha and beta readers is that
4:28they need to understand the genre. They
4:30need to be fans of the genre to
4:32understand if your book is appropriate
4:34for that genre. So, if you've clicked on
4:37alpha read and all you had need to do is
4:40go to this little button that says add
4:41alpha reader
4:43and you can either create a new reader
4:46profile, so these are customizable, or
4:48you can use one of the ones that they've
4:50got here. Now, I have some here that I
4:52have saved.
4:53Um fantasy reader because I do fantasy
4:56young adult genre and the analyzer. If
5:00you want to read more about them, you
5:01can do so here. It says, "I read to
5:03understand why people do what they do
5:04and whether the story earns who they
5:06become. I love dissecting character arcs
5:07and motivations, etc., etc." There's
5:10also reader templates. So, those are
5:12just the ones I've saved. You can find
5:14the rest of them here. So, we've got,
5:16you know, biography reader, academic
5:18nonfiction reader, business nonfiction
5:20reader, cozy mystery, you know, like a
5:22whole bunch here. And I found that these
5:25alone are enough for probably 90% of use
5:29cases. Uh we've got the loyal beta
5:31reader. And you can have several of
5:32these. You can have more than one. So,
5:34for purposes of this video, I'm going to
5:36select the harsh critic
5:39because I want someone to take some
5:41brutal honesty to my book, okay? So,
5:43we're going to create this reader. And
5:44over here it'll show you everything
5:46that's included about this beta reader
5:49or this alpha reader here uh already. Uh
5:53it says, "I I read to make the work
5:54stronger, full stop. I'm blunt,
5:56detail-focused, and I don't sugarcoat. I
5:58spot weak spots quickly and care about
6:01tight logic, escalating stakes, and
6:02clean efficient prose.
6:04When I beta read, I cut to what's
6:06essential, structure, causality, scene
6:08utility, consistency, and whether the
6:10ending actually lands. Praise is brief
6:12and specific. Most of my notes drive
6:14fixes."
6:15And then it gives you like a kind of a
6:17rubric of what it's looking for. And the
6:20great thing about this is that you don't
6:23have to use this by itself. You can
6:25actually add in your own characteristics
6:27to this. So, I could create a really
6:30silly one if I wanted to. Um
6:33uh you could even create one that's
6:35like, pretend it's an actual character
6:37from your book
6:39analyzing
6:41the the book itself, which you might
6:43think like, "Why would I do that?" Well,
6:45I think I could that could actually make
6:46some interesting bonus material
6:49for your for your readers. Like, what if
6:51you had commentary from from other
6:54characters about the book and then you
6:56assembled all of that into a little
6:58giveaway or something. That could be
7:00really cool, you know? And you could do
7:02that using this feature. But I'm going
7:04to modify this just a little bit because
7:06I've used this kind of uh the these uh
7:09alpha and beta readers before. So, I'm
7:11going to put in an additional comment
7:13here. I'm going to say something like,
7:16"I give specific advice on what to
7:20change,
7:21noting the chapter where it takes place
7:26and recommendations or we'll we'll say
7:29specific
7:31recommendations on what I like
7:34or what I would change." Okay? So, I'm
7:38just adding a little bit there to
7:39hopefully get a little bit more specific
7:41device advice and then I just hit
7:43create. And then [clears throat] here we
7:45go. We've got the harsh critic. So, now
7:48the next step is to actually run this.
7:51It's essentially you're running a
7:52prompt,
7:53but the whole point is that we now want
7:56to actually see if uh see if it gives us
7:59any unique advice. So, all I have to do
8:02is click this button that says start
8:03reading and it will run through the
8:06entire manuscript
8:08and give us its thoughts based on the
8:11profile that it has. And while that's
8:14going, I can show you what I've gotten
8:15on some of the others. So, this is my
8:17fantasy reader
8:19uh profile. Uh so, pretending that this
8:22AI prompt is essentially a fantasy
8:25reader and it gives me an overall
8:28impression. Story 61%. So, maybe there's
8:31some stuff I could work on there. Reader
8:34fit 80%. Better, but also kind of maybe
8:37I could improve on that. So, why did it
8:40pick this emoji? I like that it uses
8:42emojis for the story. Says, "I picked a
8:45thoughtful reflective emoji for the
8:46story score because the manuscript
8:48delivers a lot of the things I love, a
8:50vividly perfect personal stake,
8:53cinematic set pieces, etc., etc., etc.
8:56As a reader who prizes wonder plus
8:59consequence, I admire the visceral
9:00moments and felt the promise of the
9:01larger myth. Yet, I kept stopping to ask
9:04how and why the pieces felt together."
9:06And then it will give you more advice
9:08like my its favorite line, uh emotions
9:11by chapter. So, it goes through each
9:12chapter and gives you like different
9:14emotions on what it thought it liked and
9:17the strength of each one and so forth.
9:19Gives me advice on big picture story
9:21elements, uh big picture with
9:23characters, conflict, world building, uh
9:27theme and tone, general impressions. So,
9:30it gives me things like rule slippage.
9:33Magic mechanics aren't always explicit
9:35or consistent. And, you know, I'd have
9:37to admit that's probably true. And gives
9:40me some other things. Glaring holes
9:42{slash} contradictions.
9:44Uh which is great. And then some final
9:45thoughts.
9:47So, let's look back at the harsh critic.
9:49It's giving the story a 64%
9:52and the reader fit a 72%.
9:55And looking at this, it's actually
9:56giving me some pretty decent advice
9:58here. We So, we've got like specific
10:00actionable changes I would make now,
10:02fast wins. Cut and condense the first 10
10:05to 20% to trim. Cut out or compress the
10:07repetitive sheep herding material across
10:09chapters 1-3 into one tight scene that
10:12establishes Merlin's life and curiosity.
10:15Lose about 10% of the manuscript. Merge
10:17the two early day defined market /
10:21bridge scenes, chapters 3-6. Keep one
10:24vivid introduction into town and the
10:25church. I think that's good. I think
10:27that's actually pretty spot-on right
10:29there.
10:30Uh so, that's the alpha reader. Alpha
10:32reader tends to give you a little bit
10:33more like broad
10:35suggestions on how how to change things.
10:37It's a little bit more like a
10:38developmental editor. Let's look now at
10:41the beta reader, which is very similar
10:42but not quite the same.
10:44So, let's go here.
10:46Let's select the harsh critic again.
10:49And let it start reading.
10:52All right. So, here we go. Uh it says
10:54overall impressions 3.0. So, probably
10:56could use some work. Story is 45%, not
10:59great. Reader fit 69%, a little better.
11:02I picked disappointed for the story
11:04quality emoji because the draft is full
11:06of promising raw material, clear stakes,
11:08emotional moments, and an actual
11:10satisfying climax. Yet, it trips on
11:12execution in predictable places. The
11:14reader experience wobbles between a
11:16tight thriller and leisurely YA
11:18pastoral, which made me lose focus in
11:20the middle. And uh this is actually one
11:22of the reasons why I'm rewriting this
11:24thing. Uh has to do with the focus in
11:27the genre. As the harsh critic, I read
11:29for structural integrity and causality.
11:31This manuscript often substitutes
11:33sympathy for logic.
11:35And so on and so forth. So, it gives you
11:38the why. It gives you again the favorite
11:40line, chapter uh breakdown. But, this is
11:43actually giving you a little bit more
11:45specifics
11:47on what to look for. For instance, it's
11:49giving me some continuity and clarity.
11:51Uh so, some notable continuity issues
11:53that need uh help, uh specific feedback
11:57here.
11:58Uh final thoughts.
12:00Uh so, like it gives you some really
12:02good stuff. Very similar. I would be
12:04running both the alpha reader and the
12:06beta readers on these things and just
12:07kind of seeing what comes up, especially
12:09what's consistent between the two.
12:12And running those two things. So, I find
12:14this to be really good. Now, this is
12:16just a prompt essentially. There's some
12:18prompting on the back end, and you can
12:19also change the nature of the of the
12:23profile you're using
12:25in a sense that makes it its own prompt.
12:28Uh so, you can change how it gives you
12:31advice and the kind of things that they
12:32value and all of that kind of stuff.
12:35Like, for instance, the fantasy reader.
12:37So, content boundaries for fantasy,
12:39violence and gore, comforter comfortable
12:41with combat and peril, prefer limited
12:43graphic detail, no torture porn or
12:45fetishizing suffering. Let's
12:48Let's just say you're writing a really
12:50dark fantasy and these aren't an issue
12:52for you. Like, say you're writing like a
12:54grim dark fantasy or something like
12:55that. You can just come in here and
12:57change this and say, "No, I really like
12:59the
13:00obsessive violence [snorts] and gore and
13:02torture and all of that stuff." And then
13:04that would change the way it reads the
13:06thing and you can just create one of
13:08these to kind of comply with your ideal
13:11reader. What does your ideal reader look
13:13like? And then it can actually give you
13:14a pretty decent idea of whether your
13:16ideal reader would like this book or
13:18not.
13:19Additionally, if there are certain
13:20tropes that you know your readers like,
13:24you can include those tropes in this
13:26profile for the AI to understand like,
13:30"Okay, this is what they're looking
13:31for." And if your book has those tropes,
13:32it'll give you a positive score. And
13:34like I said, the profiles that they have
13:36by default are actually pretty good,
13:39maybe with just a few tweaks here and
13:40there. I would be happy just using
13:43those. Uh or at least using them for
13:45inspiration. But, you can create your
13:46own to do pretty much anything. So, any
13:48niche you can think of, you can create a
13:49profile of your ideal reader and then
13:52use that here to kind of get a sense of
13:55whether they like your book or not. All
13:56right. Now, the next one is called
13:57analyzer plus. We'll do this one and
13:59then market fuel. Market fuel is my
14:01favorite. So, stay tuned for that. Uh
14:03but, the analyzer plus, there there was
14:05a previous analyzer um feature that they
14:08had that did use AI. But, now this one
14:12is new and improved and it looks at your
14:13entire book all at once, which is great.
14:16Uh so, the way this works is this is
14:18essentially a full developmental edit of
14:21your book. So, we're not looking at this
14:24from the profile of a specific type of
14:26reader. We're looking at this from the
14:28perspective of essentially a
14:30developmental editor, someone who's
14:32trained to analyze your book and
14:35give you really good advice on it. So,
14:38I've already generated mine for this
14:40book. But, we have story premise, story
14:42arc, what you know, what's the kind of
14:45arc that we have in this, the
14:46protagonist, the inciting incident, the
14:48opposing force, the goal. Then we get
14:51the target genre, and here it listed my
14:54target genre as dark / low fantasy.
14:58And when thinking about it, I was just
15:00like, "Oh my gosh, that is absolutely
15:02true." Cuz we have like angels and
15:03demons in this thing, and it gets really
15:05dark. There's like this demonic priest
15:08that is like really a problem. And when
15:11I got thinking about it, I was just
15:12like, "You know what? This really
15:13doesn't work for a middle grade
15:15fantasy."
15:17And I thought about it and the more I
15:19thought about it, the more I thought
15:20like if I leaned more into those dark or
15:23low fantasy elements,
15:25that would make it so much better. And
15:27the more I thought about it, the more I
15:28was like, "Yes, that's actually what I
15:30should do." So, that is the reason why
15:31I'm going to be doing a rewrite on this.
15:33I'm going to increase Merlin's age a
15:34little bit
15:36uh just to make it fit. I'm going to
15:38make a couple of other changes to the
15:40plot, but really make it more of a dark
15:42fantasy than um than a middle grade
15:46fantasy.
15:48Uh so, it had some other good things in
15:49here. Of course, dark fantasy was number
15:51one. Had some grim / weird fantasy in
15:54there. Coming-of-age, yep. Uh adventure
15:57and a quest, not so much.
15:59Mythic and supernatural, yes. And uh
16:02political / social allegory, a little
16:04bit of that in there as well. There's
16:06some discussion, uh some fixes. Lean
16:08into one dominant flavor in authorial
16:11authorial framing. If dark fantasy is
16:14primary, keep imagery bleak and moral
16:17horror central. If wanting more heroic
16:19fantasy uplift, add scenes of hope and
16:21communal resistance earlier to balance
16:23grim elements. Then this is excellent
16:24advice. And then it gives us the target
16:26tropes. So, we have the reluctant chosen
16:28one, the rogue priest or the corrupt
16:30institution, found family, loyal best
16:32friend, secret parentage, demon
16:34bloodline,
16:36magic through touch, memory visions.
16:38Yep, these are all accurate. Then it
16:40gives us a theme analysis. So, you can
16:42look at it and be like, "Okay, yes, this
16:44is this is the theme." Or you might
16:45realize like, "Oh no, that's not really
16:47what I intended at all."
16:49Contradictions and inconsistencies. This
16:51is where it can really help tighten up
16:54your story. And then we get the overall
16:55timeline. This is one that like I've
16:58tried to do prompts that do this really
17:00well,
17:01and it's very difficult. And this does a
17:03really solid
17:05uh list of events in the story
17:08that I'm very impressed with, honestly.
17:10It goes through every chapter and
17:12basically just gives you a really solid
17:13outline of your entire thing.
17:16Uh we have a POV analysis.
17:18Uh third-person limited, primarily
17:20following Merlin. We have conflict
17:22analysis. Uh conflict is one of the most
17:24important elements of your story.
17:25Foreshadowing analysis.
17:28Uh and then we get into world-building.
17:29So, we've got general geography. So,
17:31it's essentially it's created an entire
17:34dossier uh outlining what your story is
17:38about and all of the different elements
17:39of it in a way that's super super
17:42helpful. Uh also, it uh saves all of
17:45this information here inside of
17:47Autocrit, so you can look at that. But,
17:48you can also go through and um you know,
17:52regenerate a section.
17:54You can also go in and edit it yourself
17:56if it gets something wrong. You could do
17:59that so it's not confused. But, yeah,
18:01we've got a ton of stuff in here. Once
18:02we get to characters, um it'll it will
18:05automatically choose who it thinks the
18:07protagonist is. But, you could actually
18:09>> [laughter]
18:10>> you can actually put something in here.
18:12And like, I could say the priest.
18:15And then uh like if it gets it wrong,
18:18you could say choose
18:20manually and put in the thing here. But,
18:22since I since the main character is not
18:25the priest, let's see what happens if I
18:26actually generate the analysis with the
18:28priest chosen as the protagonist. All
18:31right. Protagonist identification
18:33assessment. The list provided is not
18:35accurate. The priest functions as the
18:36story's principal antagonist. He drives
18:39the central external conflict, not the
18:40protagonist. So, it's pretty smart. It
18:42understands things pretty well. So, in
18:44order to put this back to the way it
18:46was, I'm just going to put Merlin and
18:48regenerate so it has the correct
18:50protagonist there. Uh but, you can also
18:52do the same thing for your antagonist.
18:55Uh it has correctly identified the
18:58priest here and the demon possession
19:01possessing him as the
19:03uh antagonist. It'll have a relationship
19:06character,
19:08a distraction character, an emotion
19:10character,
19:11your reason character, your support
19:14character,
19:15your opposition character, and so on.
19:18And then it gets into the beats / the
19:19outline. So, it just kind of walks you
19:21through the outline of your story. And
19:23that's it for the analyzer plus. There's
19:25a lot of stuff here that it gives you
19:28that you can look through and get
19:29insights on your on your work. Uh this
19:32could also be incredibly useful if you
19:35want to copy this information into a
19:37different document and use it to um you
19:41know, run an automation about your your
19:43work or to create uh some other
19:47side materials or something about your
19:49work. Like, uh I don't know. Like, maybe
19:52uh a wiki you could take some of the
19:53information here and create a full-on
19:56Wikipedia entry about every character,
19:58stuff like that. Very interesting stuff
20:00that you could do here. But let's go to
20:02the fourth and final uh section of these
20:05updates that is my personal favorite and
20:07the one that I think is going to be
20:08absolutely a game-changer for a lot of
20:11you and that is market fuel. So if we
20:13select this, I've already done the
20:15market analysis here, but I you could
20:18say start analysis or my case I could
20:20restart the analysis.
20:22And it gives you a bunch of
20:25great information on how to market this
20:27book. So first of all, it gives you a
20:29market overview like the genre.
20:32Uh sits squarely in the young
20:33adult/crossover fantasy space with
20:35strong Arthurian mythic roots,
20:36coming-of-age, and elements of dark
20:38folklore.
20:40Uh so like I mentioned, that's something
20:41I'm going to change to focus a little
20:44bit more on the dark
20:45>> [snorts]
20:46>> uh fantasy elements there. But it gives
20:48you your target audience and your buyer
20:49profiles, your market trends, and
20:51commercial context.
20:53Um the it's different strengths, right?
20:56Uh weaknesses.
20:58Commercial potential and positioning
21:01strategy. So we have like young adult
21:03fantasy marketed as young young adult
21:05with adult crossover, consider dual
21:07audience copy to catch both teen and
21:09adult readers.
21:11Series feasibility high, clear arc for a
21:13duology or trilogy.
21:15Uh origin awakening confrontation with
21:17larger demonic political forces,
21:19merchandise tie-in like maps, sigils,
21:22rune jewelry are feasible.
21:25And so on. And then we get to marketing
21:28hooks and campaign suggestions. So I
21:31love something that can give me decent
21:33marketing hooks
21:34because those are really handy to just
21:36test on ads and stuff like that. Uh
21:39hooks are the the best way to get your
21:41ads working is uh just testing a bunch
21:44of hooks. So I love it when I can get
21:46some good hooks here. So we've got a
21:48hidden heir, a village condemned, a
21:49demon they never saw coming. Okay, not
21:51too bad. A new origin for the boy who
21:54will upend a church and a kingdom. I'd
21:56probably tweak this, but that's not bad
21:58either. It gives you some potential
22:00campaign channels, retail tie-ins.
22:03Rights and adaptation potential. Uh so
22:06apparently my TV/streaming potential is
22:08high.
22:10Uh I don't think it's high for anybody
22:11really, but um
22:13I suppose. Even gives you some advice on
22:15producing your audiobook. So strong
22:17potential, recommend casting a narrator
22:19who can perform youth voice and multiple
22:21accents. Potential for a full cast
22:23dramatization edition. Okay. And then
22:25there's a bottom line. Then we've got
22:27similar books. So
22:29it lists five similar books here and uh
22:32yes, these are all similar, although I
22:33think these are all similar just because
22:35they're Arthurian. It kind of snatched
22:37onto the Arthurian element of it and
22:38really went with that, which is obvious
22:40because in my case I am writing an
22:42Arthurian book, so that's an obvious
22:43connection.
22:45I wouldn't say these are that similar in
22:48terms of context, but other than this
22:50one, Name of the Wind,
22:52uh and maybe this one, I'm not certain.
22:54Um
22:55these are all Arthurian
22:57things here, so that's useful.
22:59Uh then front to back. This is really
23:02important. It gives us 10 title options.
23:05So if I if Son of the Demon was just
23:07like a temporary title,
23:09um it you know, I could obviously use
23:11that, but it also gives us others like
23:13Ember Child, The Willow and the Ashes,
23:15Merlin's Reckoning, that one's okay.
23:18Blood of Azazel.
23:19That one's also okay. Fires of Defed.
23:22The Last Exorcist. I wouldn't use that
23:24one. Uh but it gives you a bunch that
23:26you can check through.
23:29Five trope-centric title options. So um
23:33titles that essentially tell you what
23:35tropes are in it.
23:36Uh The Reluctant Chosen Heir, Found
23:39Family and Fallen Gods, Demon Blood and
23:41Shepherd's Heart.
23:42The Witch, the Boy, and the Tyrant
23:43Priest. Sounds a little Lion, the Witch,
23:46and the Wardrobe-ish.
23:47The Hidden Heir of the Old Blood.
23:50Um so
23:52uh it also gives us series names
23:53options, which is cool.
23:55Emrys Saga, Fires of Defed, Ash and Oath
23:57Cycle, The Starborn Covenant. Kind of
24:00like the Emrys Saga. And here's the part
24:02that I think most authors will love and
24:05that is compelling book descriptions or
24:07blurbs.
24:08So uh it kind of walks you through a
24:10process here. First of all, a logline,
24:11choose one of these. When Defed's priest
24:14launches a witch hunt, a timid shepherd
24:16boy secretly the son of a demon must
24:18master sudden visions and raw magic to
24:20rescue his mother before the town burns
24:22them both.
24:24That's a pretty decent logline right
24:26there. And then we get book blurbs,
24:28okay? So option one, epic rescue and
24:30dark heritage.
24:32Uh and it gives you let's see, it looks
24:34like it gives you three options to
24:36choose from.
24:37So let's look at this first one.
24:39Uh Merlin grew up with sheep and stars
24:41under the careful watch of his mother in
24:42a life small enough to breathe, but when
24:44a mob closes their cottage and a fanta-
24:47fanatical priest turns Defed into a
24:49terror, their escape shatters into ash.
24:51Adwin is taken, the village torches
24:53burn, and Merlin discovers the truth he
24:55was never meant to know. He is half
24:56demon born of a fallen being who
24:58bargains in bargains.
25:00All right, so not bad at all. Uh I think
25:03I could maybe get better if I went and
25:05actually picked a bunch of best-selling
25:08uh descriptions, had the AI turn those
25:11into a template, and then use that
25:12template. But this is actually still
25:15pretty decent. And it gives you
25:17different options, too. So you can
25:18choose through these. Uh for instance,
25:19this one is in first person, which for
25:21some particularly for dark fantasy or
25:24like dark urban fantasy would be common.
25:27Uh so this one's in first person. I
25:28never wanted to leave the pasture. I
25:30wanted to count the sheep until the sun
25:31sank and turn and stir my mother's stew.
25:34Then they came and the world out beyond
25:35the tree tasted different, like smoke
25:37and church strings and the kind of fear
25:38that changes people. They took my
25:40mother. I learned I wasn't just a boy
25:41with freckles. I am the son of a demon
25:43named Azazel.
25:44So yeah, good stuff there.
25:46Then it gives us search keyword data.
25:49This is also super useful. Now AI cannot
25:52actually know what the data is behind
25:54certain keywords, so you don't want to
25:56just use these keywords that it gives
25:58you outright, but it is nice to have a
26:01really long list of keywords to start
26:02with so that you can take a tool like
26:05Publisher Rocket and actually test those
26:07those keywords and see what the data is
26:09on them and find the best ones for your
26:11book. Like I might think of young adult
26:13fantasy or or something like that, but I
26:16might not think of young adult dark
26:17fantasy, young adult historical fantasy,
26:19teen coming-of-age fantasy, which are
26:20all slightly different variations. The
26:23same goes here for Amazon categories, so
26:25you can actually I don't know if they
26:27have a
26:28a like a database of categories that
26:30they're drawing from, but you can
26:31actually look through these and see
26:34uh which categories might be the best
26:36ones for your primary genre and
26:39subgenre. We've also got the top BISAC
26:41categories, which is useful if you're
26:42publishing uh in through Draft2Digital
26:45or basically any other publisher besides
26:47Amazon. And then we got some sample
26:49marketing copy or ad copy. So this is
26:52also very useful in addition to the book
26:54description.
26:55Uh we've got like hook and intrigue,
26:58uh emotional appeal, problem-solution,
27:02character-driven, high-stakes, and
27:03action-packed. And then for Facebook ad
27:06copy, we've got uh the hook and you
27:08know, the same categories. A mother
27:09flees a mob. A boy discovers he was born
27:11of a demon. Secrets spill into blood and
27:14fire. Read Son of the Demon, click to
27:15preview the prologue now.
27:17Um you know, great initial marketing
27:20copy there. I also love this one. It
27:22gives us potential lead mag- magnets.
27:25Uh on what you could do. So free first
27:27chapter? Yeah, maybe. Um Merlin's
27:30starter spellbook.
27:31And this is why I was thinking you could
27:33take that developmental edit that it
27:35gave you that has like a summary of your
27:37book and everything and use that to
27:39create some of these.
27:41Uh it could be super useful.
27:42Behind-the-scenes short, a world map, a
27:44reading group guide, a playlist, deleted
27:46scenes bundle,
27:48printable bookmarks.
27:50I would maybe expand this to like if I
27:53could I can't affect the prompt on this
27:55one, unfortunately.
27:57Uh but I would maybe try to see if we
28:00could uh maybe I'll talk to the
28:02developers of having like a list of
28:03short stories that you could
28:05do that are like prequels or about
28:08certain characters or something like
28:09that. Uh that would be helpful.
28:12Uh hooks. So but more on the hooks,
28:14which I I do love. I have to help my
28:17mother. The priest says there is a boy
28:18born of a demon. I will teach you
28:20anything you'd like, Merlin. Yeah, this
28:22is like this is all great. So that is
28:24the market fuel section. And I know a
28:25lot of authors would love to have a
28:27little bit of help with their market
28:30research
28:31and and their market uh their book
28:33descriptions and hooks and everything.
28:35Not saying that AI should replace all of
28:37that, but it's sometimes
28:39handy to have something to give you a
28:40couple of ideas to start with that you
28:43can then do variations off of
28:45rather than having to come up with all
28:47of these things yourself out of whole
28:49cloth.
28:50So I absolutely love all four of these
28:53new features, the alpha, the beta, the
28:55analyzer plus, and the market fuel. I
28:57think these are absolutely fantastic.
28:59Now a lot of people are probably in the
29:01comments are going to ask about
29:02ProWritingAid's manuscript analysis,
29:04which is very similar to this,
29:05particularly to the analyzer plus.
29:07And I will say, I do think that what
29:09ProWritingAid has in their manuscript
29:11analysis is maybe slightly better.
29:15There's a problem, though, and that is
29:18that the manuscript analysis cost money.
29:20Even if you have a current subscription
29:22to ProWritingAid or you have a lifetime
29:25account with ProWritingAid, you have to
29:26pay extra for those manuscript analyses.
29:29And it's a lot. Like the the cheapest
29:32you can get it is like $15, and that's
29:34if you buy a lot of them in bulk. It's
29:36like hundreds of dollars in to get them
29:38in bulk.
29:40I don't know how AutoCrit is doing it,
29:42but AutoCrit does this 100% no extra
29:45charge.
29:47So if you have the lifetime account or
29:49if you have their subscription, they're
29:51not going to charge you extra for any of
29:53these things, even though it costs them
29:55every time you run this. And you get
29:57unlimited runs of this thing. As as far
30:00as I know, there isn't a limit to how
30:01many times you can use this on as many
30:05books as you want or as many times as
30:08you want on one book, which to me is
30:10pretty crazy that you're able to do
30:13that. And I honestly I genuinely don't
30:15know how they managed that. So, which
30:18brings me to how you can get your hands
30:20on this. So, I have a link down below
30:23where you can get the lifetime deal.
30:24They typically do not advertise their
30:26lifetime deal. You can only get it
30:28through influencers like myself.
30:30And
30:31uh it is an affiliate link. Uh so, if
30:33you want to support the channel, you
30:35can. I have affiliate links to
30:36ProWritingAid and other tools, too. But
30:39I genuinely think that AutoCrit is now
30:40the best in this space, the best in its
30:42category, especially if you are focused
30:45on writing long-form fiction or
30:47non-fiction. So, any kind of book,
30:49fiction or non-fiction book, that is the
30:51way to go. You might still want
30:53Grammarly or ProWritingAid if you have
30:56other grammar needs outside of that. So,
31:00say you use it a lot on emails or
31:02something like that,
31:03uh where you're not using it on a
31:05specific long-form project. But for
31:08certain for long-form projects,
31:10AutoCrit, I believe, is the best in its
31:12category right now. And I can
31:14confidently say that after these
31:15updates. Before these updates, I was
31:17kind of waffling. I wasn't quite sure.
31:19It had some good things about it, but
31:21ProWritingAid was also very good. And it
31:23was like trying to, you know,
31:25deal with that. But the fact that we've
31:27got all of these new features and it
31:29doesn't cost extra,
31:32like you just get it with your regular
31:33subscription, that is amazing to me. So,
31:35if you want the lifetime deal, you can
31:36get that down below. And um
31:39as well as there's a link down there to
31:41my group if you want to join in. I have
31:43some things that we're we're working on
31:44inside of the group that can maximize
31:47what AutoCrit gives us,
31:49uh which I'll have more to share about
31:51in the future. But it is a link to the
31:53lifetime account, which is I I did
31:56confirm is the essentially the same deal
31:59that they will be doing on Black Friday.
32:01So, if you're waiting for Black Friday,
32:02you actually don't need to. You can just
32:03use my my link and get the lifetime
32:05account now. I do know that next year
32:07they're going to be raising the price.
32:10Uh so, now is the time to get it. And
32:12and I do really recommend it. Like I
32:16genuinely. I I try not to spend a lot of
32:19time talking about software that I don't
32:22genuinely recommend. So, those are my
32:25thoughts. Take them or leave them. I
32:27hope this was useful for you, and I'll
32:28see you in the next video.