AI for Authors

Authors and publishers seem sometimes to be living in two solitudes, connected, but apart.

Times change. Where publishers were once masters of the universe, top authors now call the shots. As I discuss elsewhere, self-published authors are the trailblazers. They carry little of the cultural baggage that burdens traditional publishing.

When publishers look at AI, they see few opportunities. When I talk to authors about AI, the world is their oyster. The possibilities are near-endless:

Authoring and editing

Trying to write & publish whole books
Trying to ideate for a new project
Trying to ideate within a new book
Fine-tuning of the story
Research
Fact-checking
Writing companion
Developmental editing
Copyediting
Spell-checking and grammar-checking
Proofreading

Illustration/imaging

Create illustrations and charts
Cover design roughs
Video promotions

Marketing

Automate submissions to agents, publishers, contests, friends, blurb requests
Generate marketing material: press releases, blog posts, social media, etc.
Website generation

Authors are going to drive much of the change in industry adoption of AI, whether for or against.

They are the beneficiaries of much of the startup innovation surrounding AI in authoring and publishing — some 70% of the startups are looking to work with authors on their journeys.

Sudowrite is the leading software for fiction authors. Future Fiction Academy offers both software and training.