{"id":8,"date":"2025-08-03T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/?p=8"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:22:21","slug":"ron-gould-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Ron Gould, Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the website for my writing, musings and sometimes, nonsense. I am a former software developer specializing in control systems and driver software and a tech writer. I&#8217;m now shifting my focus to fiction, mostly science fiction and fantasy. And maybe some TTRPG stuff, too. Thanks for visiting! Feel free to leave a comment or email me at <strong><a href=\"mailto:ron@gould.is\">ron@gould.is<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know there is a lot of pro and con about AI. I do not use it for my writing other than occasionally if I hit a writer&#8217;s block when I may ask for some story ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I DO play with AI art, not for illustrations or other commercial use, but merely as a diversion. It is interesting to see what can be created with a simple text prompt. I use NightCafe Creator mostly because it has a free version to experiment with. Currently I have over 800 followers on NightCafe. Feel free to come check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creator.nightcafe.studio\/game\/epG3KH9RK8NEf5ZCcLdb?ru=rgouldtx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/creator.nightcafe.studio\/game\/epG3KH9RK8NEf5ZCcLdb?ru=rgouldtx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my first novel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dead Quiet, Louisiana: The Silence Hides More Than Ghosts\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_wQ37rQjurekceW&#038;asin=B0FFHLR47Z&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is my first review for &#8220;Dead Quiet, Louisiana&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\"Atmospheric, eerie, and richly suspenseful, Dead Quiet, Louisiana is a slow-burn supernatural mystery where a skeptic PI is drawn into a world of secrets, spirits, and Southern Gothic intrigue\u2014perfect for fans of True Detective and The X-Files.\" \u2013 NewInBooks.com<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Feel free to post a comment or a review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the website for my writing, musings and sometimes, nonsense. I am a former software developer specializing in control systems and driver software and a tech writer. I&#8217;m now shifting my focus to fiction, mostly science fiction and fantasy. And maybe some TTRPG stuff, too. Thanks for visiting! Feel free to leave a comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3,7,10,8,9,5],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-author","tag-blog","tag-dark-urban-fantasy","tag-nightcafe","tag-sf-f","tag-ttrpg","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ron.gould.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}