We all need a lot of different photos of our books for A+ content – different angles and different book positions. We all want to be able to create video ads for our books, using different angles or showing a page being flipped. We need green screens to fit them into custom backgrounds in our video editors. It requires a lot of shoots and a lot of work. But what do you do if the book is not published yet and you do not have a physical copy in your hand? There is likely a solution. See you today at 15:00 UTC at the meeting. It will be: 7:00 (PST) in Los Angeles 8:00 (MST) in Denver 10:00 (EST) in New York 16:00 (CET) in Berlin 23:00 in Singapore

You know that feeling when you hire a cover designer, and what comes back looks... nothing like what you imagined? Or when you brief an editor on your book's tone, and they completely miss the mark? It's not their fault. And it's not yours either. The problem is communication. Getting what's in your head into someone else's hands is where most author-freelancer relationships fall apart. That's why I created something I call "Book DNA" – a master document that captures the soul of your project in a way that actually translates to the people you work with. Here's how it works: Step 1: The Setup Download the Book DNA Interview.md ⤵️ file from the Publisher Persona & Book DNA page and upload it to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Type "Execute" and let it guide you through questions about your book. Step 2: The Secret Sauce Here's the trick – don't type your answers. Use the microphone instead. Why? Because typing filters your thoughts. Speaking captures the nuance, the emotion, the real vision behind your book that gets lost when you're staring at a blinking cursor. Step 3: The Brain Dump Just talk. Let the AI dig deeper into what makes your book unique – the vibe, the reader experience, the details that matter. Step 4: The Result Run it through "Fast Mode" to get a clean, summarized TXT file. That's your Book DNA – the blueprint every freelancer needs to nail your vision on the first try. Before I show you all the ways to use this (and trust me, there are more than you'd think), I'm curious: What would YOU use a Book DNA file for? Drop your ideas below. I want to hear how you'd put this to work in your publishing process.

So - Apart from Nano Banana, and ChatGPT, what are your other favorite tools for illustrations?

Some people prefer to have all video materials in one place – on YouTube. This is for them.

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