AI And The Romance Novel Industry

AI is currently
writing essays.

I suspect
soon,
if it isn’t happening right now,
many of the Romance novels
writers outsource
to ghostwriters
will be written by AI.

At first,
human writers will do
quality checks.
But soon,
the need for those human writers
will be eliminated.

The market will, then,
become flooded
with those types of romance novels
(products).

I have been preparing
for that future.

I write in a small niche
that won’t immediately attract
the AI handlers.

I write long series of stories
in an intricate world
with interacting characters.
That is a bit more difficult
for AI to duplicate.

And I’m assuming
my business will go away soon.
I’ll ‘retire’
and do something different
with my time.

Changes are coming.
It is best to prepare
for those changes,
even if that means
you’re preparing
for a time
when your business is no longer viable.

Skip Steps

When I first started
publishing my books,
Kindle Unlimited at Amazon
hadn’t been invented.
Amazon didn’t dominate
the book business
like it does now.
Sales were spread over
many booksellers.

If writers wanted healthy sales,
they had to list their books
at all these booksellers.
That cost time
and money.

Today, Amazon is, by far,
the biggest bookseller.
Many newer writers only
list their books there.
That saves them money
and time
and it focuses their efforts.

Skipping the step
of listing at all booksellers
gives them a huge advantage.

Seth Godin
shares
“I’m sure
there was a really good reason
twenty years ago
for all the steps
that are now involved
in the thing you do right now,
but your competitor,
the one who is starting from scratch,
is skipping most of them.”

If you’re starting your business
now,
YOU are the competitor
Seth Godin is talking about.

Skip the unnecessary steps.