Claude for Authors, Part 3: Connectors, Skills, and the Plumbing That Makes Cowork Actually Useful

The difference between Claude being a chatbot and Claude being your assistant comes down to two things: what it can access, and what you’ve taught it…

May 4 • Chelle Honiker

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April 2026

Claude for Authors, Part 2: Getting Set Up (And Why I Changed My Mind About the Desktop App)

A summit recap, a confession about the desktop app, and the two features that turn Claude into an actual assistant.

Apr 25 • Chelle Honiker

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Claude for Authors: The Three Tools You’re Probably Only Using One Of

This is Part 1 of a new series on using Claude to run your author business. Starting with the basics — because “Claude” isn’t one thing anymore.

Apr 12 • Chelle Honiker

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March 2026

I Built the Thing That Replaced My Own Workflow

On agentic AI, a Claude plugin that creates and posts your TikTok videos, and why this newsletter can't stay the same

Mar 21 • Chelle Honiker

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The Two-Word Conversation Happening in Every Indie Author Conference Hallways

Dispatches from Savannah, London Book Fair, ALLi, and Ireland's Publishing Show

Mar 14 • Chelle Honiker

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February 2026

Everyone teaches you what AI can do. Almost nobody teaches you where to draw the lines.

The Guardrails are the entire point

Feb 28 • Chelle Honiker

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The Newsletter of a Thousand Announcements

Or: The One Where I Apparently Decided to Launch Everything at Once Like Some Kind of Unhinged Automation Goblin

Feb 25 • Chelle Honiker

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[Poll] You Pick the City, I'll Bring the Automations

I'm Taking My Systems on the Road (And I Want You There)

Feb 11 • Chelle Honiker

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Agentic AI Is Coming for Knowledge Work. Writers Still Get to Be Weird.

Why I'm handing my task list to robots and keeping the weird parts for myself

Feb 7 • Chelle Honiker

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Things I Did with Claude Code This Weekend

A weekend, a robot, and the to-do list items haunting me since 2022

Feb 2 • Chelle Honiker

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Your Data Is Trapped Behind a Login Screen (And Some Robots Want to Help)

How to track your rankings, spy on competitors, and get AI-powered marketing advice—automatically

Feb 1 • Chelle Honiker

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January 2026

The $2 Automation That Lives in Your Pocket

How a sticker orders my Starbucks, starts my day, logs my workouts, and rescued me from bad meetings

Jan 17 • Chelle Honiker

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