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If The Miranda Conspiracy Was A Movie

Marshal Zeringue's Web site "My Book, The Movie" asks authors to imagine their books as films and pick actors for the lead roles. It's a fun question to answer — sometimes I know exactly who to cast, because I pictured a specific actor when writing the piece. And sometimes I have to go on a deep dive in the IMDb looking for someone who matches the person I imagined.

He asked me to cast the imaginary (so far) film version of The Miranda Conspiracy, and you can read my response here.

If anybody has different ideas or suggestions I'd love to hear them. Also if you have Denis Villeneuve's private email, send it along.

MidJourney AI says "Hooray for Hollvyodd!"

The Page 69 Test

Marshal Zeringue's "Page 69 Test" blog asks writers a simple question: what does one random page say about your book? He always picks the same one (presumably with help from Bill & Ted) but one could use a random number generator and come up with a custom version for every new book. Anyway, he asked me what I had to say about Page 69 of The Miranda Conspiracy. Read it here.

I'm not going to generate any AI art for this one. I expect using the prompt "Page 69 test" would get me an "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" response.

Unboxed!

My author copies of The Miranda Conspiracy arrived today — which implies they've also arrived at your Friendly Neighborhood Book Store and the Amazon warehouses. Now's your chance to get one! Or more!

Miranda Conspiracy Interview With Paul Semel

I did an email interview with Paul Semel, a noted reviewer and critic of games, media, and fiction. It's pretty interesting, and fills in some of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that led to the Billion Worlds and the oddly out-of-sequence nature of that sequence. You can read the interview here.

For visual interest, I asked Midjourney AI to draw me a picture of "The Miranda Conspiracy." This is what I got. I guess the one on the lower right might be one of Kavita's outfits. Does anybody recognize who the face is based on? The AI obviously has a particular person in mind.