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Publishers can claim they're conducting "thorough" reviews of text for AI writing, but this one was still published in the ...

Publishing houses receive thousands of manuscripts every year, yet some of the most celebrated works in literary history were initially rejected, sometimes dozens of times. The path from manuscript to ...

Once upon a time, before I ever gave any serious thought to becoming an author, I was a recruiter. Then I was an HR manager, resume writer, career advice columnist, and career coach. For the most part ...

Two romantasy authors have publicly defended their use of artificial intelligence after being caught with AI-generated prompts left in their published works. While their readers are far from impressed ...