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When a major publisher pulled a horror novel over AI accusations, it exposed something far more unsettling than one bad book. It started the way most publishing success stories do. A debut author. A dark, compelling novel. A grassroots audience that found it on TikTok and wouldn’t let go. And then it fell apart in…
For decades, the formula was simple: write a good book, pick the right category, stuff your metadata with the right keywords, and hope Amazon’s algorithm noticed. Fantasy readers typed “vampire romance” into a search bar and scrolled until something caught their eye. The system wasn’t perfect, but it was predictable. Authors learned its rules. Readers…
In a world drowning in generated content, readers are craving something painfully human again. By KL Adams There was a time when simply publishing consistently online was enough to grow an audience. Not anymore. The internet has shifted faster in the last two years than most writers have processed. AI-generated articles have spiked from roughly…
