Unlock the true potential of your author business with Claude Skills—the portable power tools transforming how stories are told. Stop wrestling with fleeting prompts and start building an automated creative arsenal that scales with your imagination. In "An Introduction to Claude Skills," Kimberly Gordon guides you through the shift from simple chatting to building robust, reusable instruction sets. You’ll learn to create skills that do the heavy lifting—from generating deep character dossiers and data-driven market research to crafting intricate world bibles and performing granular edits in your unique voice. Discover the "Agents think, Skills do" framework and master "mining for gold" by turning your chat history into portable assets. Whether analyzing bestsellers or fine-tuning drafts, this course empowers you to automate the drudgery and focus on storytelling. Join us and take your skills—and your stories—to the next level.

Most authors use AI in scattered browser tabs, constantly copying and pasting between tools, losing context, and drowning in disorganized files. This course teaches you Claude Code—a project-based IDE where AI works inside your actual writing folders—to create market research, story structures, character bibles, newsletters, and launch plans as real, editable files you can use immediately. Learn to give Claude multi-step tasks, review and approve every action, make global revisions across documents, and maintain complete control while AI does the heavy lifting. Instructor Kimberly Gordon shows you how to set up safe workflows, manage permissions, switch between models, and turn one book premise into a complete suite of planning and marketing documents. No coding required—if you can use a chat window, you can master this. This isn't just learning software, it's transforming how you execute your author business with AI that builds alongside you.

Your best ideas are scattered across documents, notebooks, browser tabs, and "I'll remember that later" moments—making research, worldbuilding, and series continuity a frustrating mess. This course teaches you Obsidian to build a connected, searchable author brain where notes link together, files stay private and portable in markdown, and everything becomes findable and reusable. Learn to set up your first vault, master bi-directional linking for character arcs and research trails, customize themes and layouts, and build real workflows for market research, outlines, character bibles, and story continuity. Instructor Kimberly Gordon shows you how to turn Obsidian into a second brain that works offline, syncs across devices, and scales from one book to an entire author business—without becoming a productivity hobby. No platform lock-in, no subscriptions, just markdown files you own forever. This isn't just note-taking, it's finally having one reliable home for everything you know.

Learn to use Antigravity—Google's free AI-powered coding app—for novel writing. Kimberly shows that if AI can follow complex instructions in any language (including English!), it can write books. Authors are coders; story is the original code. The course covers installation, workspace customization, and the Agent Manager—Anti-Gravity's standout feature that lets you watch AI break tasks into steps and even replay its web research. Security and permissions are emphasized throughout. Using a playful pirate romantasy premise, students learn a complete workflow: market research, story structure, outline building, character development, and marketing plans. Features covered include inline comments, style guides, automatic document updates, and voice commands. You'll see how an empty folder and a simple premise become a full outline, character bible, research notes, and marketing plan. If you can use a chat window, you can do this!