The AI & Writing Hub
The honest, working-ghostwriter’s view of artificial intelligence and writing. I use AI every day on real books for real clients — which means I know exactly what it’s good at, what it quietly breaks, and where the worried are right. No hype, no doom. Just what actually works when your name goes on the cover.
No pitch. No pressure.
AI and your book, without the hype or the panic
Everyone has an opinion about AI and writing. Most of them are either breathless hype or end-of-the-world panic. This hub is neither. It’s what I’ve learned using these tools on actual ghostwriting projects — what AI genuinely helps with, where it fails in ways that will embarrass you, and how to use it without losing the one thing that makes a book worth reading: your voice.
Will AI replace writers? The honest answer
The question everyone asks first. Here’s the truthful, structural answer — not reassurance, not doom.
- ► Will AI Replace My Work? The Honest Answer Depends on the Structure of What You Do
- ► AI Isn’t Coming for Your Job. Other People Using AI Are.
- ► Why I’m Not Worried About AI Taking Over Ghostwriting (And You Shouldn’t Be Either)
- ► I’m Behind on AI and It Feels Too Late
- ► The AI Skills That Will Actually Matter in Five Years
- ► The AI Takeover Narratives and Today’s Tools Are Different Conversations
- ► When the Worried Are Right About AI
Using AI to write your book
The practical mechanics: where AI helps on an actual manuscript, where it doesn’t, and how the labor really splits.
- ► Can AI Write Your Book? An Honest Answer for the Worried Author
- ► AI Can Write a Business Book. It Can’t Write Yours.
- ► Using AI to Get Your Book Out of Your Head
- ► The AI Labor Split That Actually Works on a Book
- ► AI for Drafting the Connective Sections of Your Book
- ► Using AI for Research Without Getting Burned
- ► The Half-Cost AI-Assisted Book, Explained Honestly
- ► AI Audiobook for Your Ghostwritten Book: A Working Ghostwriter’s Guide for 2026
- ► Turning Your Book Into Ongoing Content With AI
- ► AI Ghostwriting vs. Human Ghostwriting: What the Interview Process Actually Produces
AI and your voice: keeping the book yours
The thing most worth protecting. Will readers know? Will it flatten your voice? And how to fix a book that already sounds like a machine.
- ► Will AI Make Me Sound Like Everyone Else?
- ► You Used AI and It Shows. Here’s How to Fix It.
- ► If You Use AI, Will Your Readers Know?
- ► AI Disclosure on Your Book, and What You Actually Owe Readers
- ► What I Actually Tell Clients About AI
- ► Every Client Now Uses AI to Work With Me, Not Instead of Me
- ► The 71-Year-Old Memoirist Who Uses AI Better Than You Do
Where AI breaks: limits, hallucination, and quality
The failure modes that will embarrass you if you don’t know them. What AI quietly gets wrong, and why.
- ► Six Places AI Will Break Your Work
- ► What AI Is Actually Good At (When You Stop Asking It to Write Your Book)
- ► AI Hallucination: A Survival Guide for People Who Publish Under Their Own Name
- ► AI Does Not Just Hallucinate. It Distorts Your Own Data.
- ► AI Drift: The Failure Mode Nobody Talks About
- ► The Edge Case Is Where Your AI Project Dies
- ► AI and the Curse of Shallowness
- ► AI Is Broken: Why It’s Destroying Content Quality, Not Fixing It
- ► It’s Not the AI, It’s the Crap
- ► MIT Research Shows ChatGPT Weakens Your Brain — A Professional Writer’s Guide to Using AI Without Losing Your Edge
- ► My AI Said My Idea Was Stupid and Made Me Cry
AI in business and the bigger picture
Adoption, strategy, and the perspective of someone who watched technology cycles long before this one.
- ► How to Adopt AI at Work Without Breaking Your Business
- ► What Serious AI Adoption Actually Looks Like, for the Professional Who Isn’t a Tech Person
- ► Why Most AI Rollouts Fail (And the One Company That Will Cost Us a Decade)
- ► AI for the Professional Who Doesn’t Really Use Computers
- ► AI for Your Business Content System After the Book
- ► AI in Customer Service: What Actually Works
- ► The AI Competitor Beating You to Market, and Why Speed Isn’t the Moat
- ► The AI Founder’s Survival Argument for Writing a Book Now
- ► The Case for Taking AI Seriously, Even If You Think It’s Hype
- ► The Ethical Concerns About AI Are Real, and Not Using the Technology Doesn’t Solve Them
- ► AI Is Not a Fad, and the Comparison to Past Tech Cycles Is Doing Work the Doubter Doesn’t Notice
- ► The Quiet AI Revolution That Already Happened
- ► 61% of Writers Use AI. Here Is What That Means.
Stories, lessons, and the human side of AI
Where the perspective comes from — decades in technology, a few hard lessons, and the occasional cautionary tale.
- ► What I Learned in Pascal in 1980 That Every AI Executive Should Know
- ► What 3D Printing Taught Me About AI
- ► What a Snow-Locked Water District Taught Me About AI
- ► Is ChatGPT God? The AI Worship Crisis Destroying Lives
- ► How to Turn Your AI Into the Mother-in-Law From Hell: A Foolproof Guide
- ► Your AI Vendor Just Murdered Your Kids’ Future (And You Pay Them)
Want a book that uses AI well and still sounds like you?
That’s the whole job. I use these tools every day on real client books — to work faster, never to replace the human voice that makes a book worth reading. Let’s talk about yours.