Can AI write your book? Should you let it? These posts take on the question every prospective author is now asking — where AI genuinely helps, where it fails, why human-written books still build authority that AI cannot, and why, paradoxically, the flood of AI slop is making real ghostwriters more valuable, not less.
AI and WritingMark Zuckerberg argues in the Wall Street Journal that superintelligence should be widely distributed, and builds the case on a thought experiment about lawyers. The argument holds in a courtroom, where a judge must decide. It breaks on a bookshelf,…
AI and WritingAnthropic settled for $1.5 billion over pirated books. The court found the acquisition was the problem, not the training, and that distinction is the one that matters to anyone who writes as someone else. What it changes for the ghostwriting…
AI vs Human GhostwritingThe fear was that clients would use AI to replace ghostwriters. The opposite is happening: clients arrive already using AI to gather material, check facts, and pressure-test the draft, and they expect a writer fluent in the same tools. It…
AI vs Human GhostwritingAI on a book is not use it or don't; it is a labor split, specific tasks the machine handles well under supervision, and specific tasks a human handles every time. The line is not arbitrary, it tracks whether the…
AI vs Human GhostwritingMy entire AI-on-a-book practice runs on one sentence: AI never writes in your voice. It can do nearly everything else, and most of it well, but the voice belongs to a human every single time. That is not a compromise…
AI vs Human GhostwritingThe worry is that a free tool made the paid human pointless. The math says the reverse. The 2024 Business Book ROI study found ghostwritten books returned a median of $92,500 and were four times more profitable than self-written ones,…
AI vs Human GhostwritingThe fear of getting caught using AI has it backwards. Readers do not scan your pages for machine fingerprints; they feel the hollowness, lose interest, and only then go looking for a reason to blame. The emptiness comes first; AI…
AI vs Human GhostwritingAI can produce a manuscript. It cannot produce your book, because it writes the average of everything ever said on your subject, and a book worth your name is the opposite of average. It will not replace a real ghostwriter,…
AI AdoptionAI doubters are not stupid, and many of their worries are fair: the hype is real, the hallucinations are real, the wasted spending on bad rollouts is real. None of that changes the fact that the tools work for a…
AI vs Human GhostwritingAI writes like a brochure because it is trained on averages, hitting the common arguments and common conclusions while never risking the one specific thing only someone who lived the work would say. That shallowness is structural, not a few…
AI vs Human GhostwritingA 71-year-old writing his memoir uses AI better than most professionals half his age, to find the gaps in his draft, to refocus when he loses the thread, to leave his ghostwriter notes on what to tackle next, and never…
AI vs Human GhostwritingSix real questions clients ask me about AI, and exactly how I answer each, not hot takes, but the answers I have refined across hundreds of conversations with people about to spend a year and real money on a book.…
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