Ch00 — Copyright & Disclaimers

The legal stuff. Skip if you want. I won’t be insulted. I would skip it too.

Copyright

No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission, except brief quotations used in reviews and certain non-commercial uses permitted by U.S. copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 107). For permission requests, write to the publisher at the address provided through Amazon KDP.

First Edition · April 2026 · Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY 11237

Published independently via Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) as part of the Front Seat Diaries series, a collection of true 2026 stories by working-class and working-young Americans about what they actually did with AI tools when no one was watching.

ISBN (Paperback): assigned by KDP at publication. ISBN (eBook): assigned by KDP at publication.

Pen Name & Composite Disclosure

Stevie Marchetti is a pen name. The author is a real person, age 32, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, works two part-time jobs, and made and uploaded the songs described in this book between March 8, 2026 and May 22, 2026. Every numerical claim in this book — Spotify monthly listeners, Bandcamp payouts, venue bookings, fan email counts, dollars in and dollars out — is true to within ±5% and is documented in screenshots the author has retained.

The following names have been changed to protect privacy:

The author’s own name (legal name on file with KDP).
The ex-boyfriend referred to as “Marcus” is a composite of two real men the author dated between 2024 and 2026; the breakup-by-text-on-a-Monday is true and was one of them; the hat photo is true and was the other.
“Idun” is the real first name of the real 16-year-old in Trondheim, Norway who emailed The Tuesday Saints in Week 2; her parents have given written permission via email (March 14, 2026 and again April 2, 2026) for her first name and city to be used. Her surname is withheld.
“Devon” is a real 28-year-old bass player who played the May 22, 2026 show; first name used with permission, surname withheld.
“Sasha” the venue booker is real; pseudonym used per request.
“Joanna” the author’s sister is real; first name used with permission.
“Bartholomew” the cat is real and has not been consulted.

The 4 fictional band members of The Tuesday Saints — Mara, Joel, Coyote, and Ash — are entirely AI-generated personas (Midjourney portraits, ChatGPT-written backstories) and do not exist as real human beings. They never existed. They are not based on real people. Any resemblance to real persons is coincidental and an artifact of the AI image-generation process.

The coffee shop “Glaze” and the literary magazine “Tilt Quarterly” are pseudonyms for real businesses on Knickerbocker Avenue and online, respectively. The author’s employment at both is real and ongoing as of April 2026.

The Bushwick venue “Marcy’s Beer Hall” is a pseudonym; the real venue is in Bushwick and the May 22, 2026 show occurred as described. The author is grateful to the booker, the door staff, and the sound engineer who all behaved professionally throughout.

AI Music & AI Image Disclosure (KDP / Amazon Music / Spotify Compliance)

This book describes the creation and commercial distribution of music generated using Suno AI (Pro plan, $24/month). All songs released under “The Tuesday Saints” between March 9, 2026 and May 22, 2026 were:

Generated using Suno based on prompts written by Stevie Marchetti.
Lyrics were 100% written by Stevie Marchetti (Suno was used in “Custom Mode” with human-written lyrics, not in “Inspired” mode with AI-generated lyrics).
Audio output from Suno was post-processed in GarageBand for EQ, compression, and trim only; no additional instrumentation was added by AI.
Distributed via DistroKid to Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Tidal, and Amazon Music with the “AI-Assisted” flag enabled per DistroKid’s 2026 disclosure policy.
Tagged on Spotify under the “AI-Assisted” label per Spotify’s January 2026 platform policy.
Royalties received are reported on Schedule C of the author’s 2026 U.S. federal tax return as self-employment income.

The cover art for “The Tuesday Saints” Bandcamp page and the four band-member portraits used on Instagram (@tuesdaysaints) were generated using Midjourney v7 ($30/month subscription). Midjourney’s Terms of Service as of April 2026 grant the author a commercial use license for these outputs. The author has retained the prompts and seed numbers for each image.

The fictional band-member backstories described in Chapter 4 were generated using ChatGPT (Plus plan, $20/month) using prompts written by the author and have been edited by the author for tone and consistency.

Nothing in this book is intended to deceive Spotify listeners, Bandcamp purchasers, or live show attendees about the AI-assisted nature of the music. All public-facing platform listings include AI-disclosure tags where required by the platform’s 2026 policy. The author’s only undisclosed deception is the fictional identities of the four band members on Instagram, which is the central comedic and emotional engine of this book and which is ongoing as of publication. Listeners and fans who wish to learn the truth about the band’s identity may, in fact, read this book, which is the disclosure.

Money & Tax Disclosure

The total revenue described in this book — approximately $1,847.40 between March 9, 2026 and May 22, 2026 — is real and documented. It consists of:

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / Amazon Music streaming royalties: $94.20
Bandcamp digital sales (name-your-price + fixed-price): $612.40
Bandcamp merchandise sales (T-shirts, stickers, one cassette run of 50): $251.00
Marcy’s Beer Hall door split + bar percentage (May 22, 2026): $540.00
Merchandise sales at the May 22 show: $350.00

All revenue is reported as self-employment income on the author’s 2026 U.S. federal tax return. Expenses (subscriptions, instrument purchase, paid musician, venue-related costs) are tracked and deducted accordingly.

This book is not financial advice. This book is not a guide to making money with AI music. This book describes one specific person’s specific accident over twelve specific weeks. If you replicate the process and make $0, that is a normal and expected outcome. If you replicate the process and make $1,847, that is a delightful coincidence. Do not quit your job over what is in this book. The author has not quit her two part-time jobs. As of April 2026 the author is still making oat-milk lattes 24 hours a week at Glaze and uploading poems 12 hours a week at Tilt Quarterly and intends to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

Medical, Mental Health, and Relationship Disclosures

This book contains references to:

Insomnia (the author’s, recurring, untreated as of writing).
A breakup (the author’s, January 2026, by text message).
Grief described in fan correspondence including the death of a parent (Idun’s mother, October 2025) and other losses described by other correspondents.
Drinking (Two-Buck Chuck wine, beer at the May 22 show, social drinking at rehearsals).
Mild profanity throughout (this is a book about a 32-year-old in Brooklyn; some words are inevitable).

If anything described in this book brings up something heavy for you, please reach out to a real human being. Useful starting points in the United States as of April 2026: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988); Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741); The Trevor Project (1-866-488-7386); National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233). Internationally, search for the equivalent service in your country; most countries now have a 3-digit crisis line.

The author is not a licensed therapist, social worker, doctor, lawyer, financial advisor, or career coach. The author is a barista who made a band on her couch. Please consume this book accordingly.

Acknowledgments

To Joanna, my older sister, who told me at 6:14 AM on a Tuesday in May not to post the confessional Instagram caption and who has been right approximately 96% of the time over the course of our 32-year siblinghood: this book exists because you are who you are. Thank you.

To Idun in Trondheim, who is now 17 as of this book’s publication and who continues to email The Tuesday Saints once every few weeks: you are the reason this stopped being a joke and started being something I had to take seriously. I hope your last year of videregående skole is going okay. I hope you are still drawing. I hope your dad is still making the soup he was making in the email you sent in November. Tusen takk.

To Devon, the actual real human bass player who took $200 to learn four songs that did not, technically, have chord charts: you are a saint. Marcy’s Beer Hall would not have happened without you. I owe you a beer in perpetuity.

To Sasha at Marcy’s, who took a chance on a band that did not, in any technically verifiable sense, exist before you booked us: thank you for not asking too many questions during the load-in.

To the 87 people who showed up to a show on a Friday night in May to see a band that no music journalist had ever interviewed and that had, as of the day of the show, exactly one member with a confirmed legal name: I will never get over what you did for me that night. The cassettes are sold out because of you.

To Bartholomew, the cat, who is 11 and judgmental and who stayed on the windowsill through every chapter of this: the temperature in the apartment will be improved when the building’s super finally fixes the radiator, which I have escalated three times. Hold tight, buddy.

To the readers of the Front Seat Diaries series who picked this book up after reading the gig-driver one or the cancer-diary one or any of the others: thank you for making space for a comedy in this collection. The series is not, exclusively, about gravity. Some of us were just trying to get our ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend’s bad hat out of our heads, and the AI happened to be there to help. The series is, in the end, about whatever working Americans actually did with AI in 2026. This is one of those things. It happens to be funny.

— Stevie Marchetti, Bushwick, Brooklyn, April 2026