Monday Morning Coffee – 10 August 2026

by Nate Hoffelder

After a decade of running The Digital Reader, Nate is a veteran web publisher with experience in design, maintenance, recovery, and troubleshooting. What little he doesn't know, he can learn.

August 10, 2026

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

  • If you use Stripe, you should know that they’ve opted you in to their new AI-powered fraud detection platform, Radar.
  • This past Wednesday the Horror Writers Association fired a Trustee for writing a (frankly, unhinged) pro-AI editorial in the HWA newsletter. Here’s the editorial, and here’s the official statement from the HWA (via Facebook).
  • James Stegall brings our attention to the growing number of word processor gadgets, AKA WriterDecks.
  • Here are some tips on how to choose social media platforms which sell books.
  • Back before COVID, I started an event calendar for local (VA/MD) author events. It died when everything shut down, and between one thing and another I only just now got around to re-launching it. It’s called Nova Writing Events.

P.S. On a personal note, I recently helped my first client with Ingram Spark. (While I do call myself The Author Website Guy, my real specialty is dealing tech so you don’t have to.)

Hi, I'm Nate.

I build and fix websites for authors, and I am also a tech VA. I can build you a website that looks great and turns visitors into fans, and I can also fix your tech when it breaks. Let me fight with tech support so you don't have to.

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