Every writer is scared AI is about to bury them, and the internet only offers two useless answers: crank out two hundred books a year, or burn it all down.

Jaime Buckley and author Alicia McCalla skip both and have the actual conversation.

This is the fork every author is standing on, whether they see it or not: build a volume brand (hundreds of books, discoverability rented from the retailer) or a depth brand (a story world readers want to live inside, and one AI can actually find because it is unmistakably yours). Alicia breaks down the real economics of each...and they are not close.

Inside this episode:

• The calculated choice, and the trade-off hidden in each path

• Why you need ten true readers, not ten thousand casual ones

• Perceived value: why raising your price can sell more, not less

• The one thing about you that no AI can ever copy

Picks up the thread from Episodes 4 and 5. Nothing about this is safe, but it's worth it.

Find Alicia McCalla on Substack: https://aliciamccalla.substack.com/

Go deeper (free article, paid deep dive, and a conversation guide for your writing group): jaimebuckley.com

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