When a Master Magician Meets a Bumbling Student ...
A sit-down with the ace magician Asi Wind, whose new book shares a few trade secrets, should have paid off with at least one successful caper. Not quite.
A sit-down with the ace magician Asi Wind, whose new book shares a few trade secrets, should have paid off with at least one successful caper. Not quite.
Every great book, whatever its subject or genre or style, is about one thing only: the eternal question of what gives meaning to our tiny, transient lives. And every answer given, however faintly whispered, points to one thing only: the quality of attention we pay to those lives. If attention is the lever of love, the particular — the sacred specificity of something small and singular, something easy to overlook — is its fulcrum. “Love quells fear,” Octavia Butler wrote in contemplating creativity, “and a sweet and powerful positive obsession blunts pain, diverts rage, and engages each of us in… read article
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With authors losing lucrative deals and writers removed from prize shortlists, accusations of AI use are sending shock waves through the publishing industry. Is it too late to turn the tide on machine writing? T he romance novelist Coral Hart got her break writing books for Mills & Boon, the publisher of bodice-ripper paperbacks. In 2012, she decided to dip her toe in self-publishing. She felt drawn to dark romance, a subgenre featuring twisted, toxic love stories that was taking off online but that publishers didn’t want to touch. Three years later, things were going well enough that she decided to self-publish full-time. Kindle Unlimited, where Hart sells her books, rewards prolific writers: the algorithm favours those who can produce a new book at least once a month. Hart says she knows of authors who hire more than a dozen ghostwriters to keep pace. By herself, Hart can write 10,000 words a day, but AI could help her produce many more. Since 2025 she has written 370 novels under 21 pen names using AI, earning herself “high six figures”. Continue reading...
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