“They’re Going to Hate Me”: This novelist wrote 371 books using ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, and she embraces it

Thélyson Orélien finally admitted that “part of the writing process [of the novel It Was That or Die] relied on AI”. Coral Hart, for her part, fully embraces using AI to write her novels, as she explains to the AFP. In fact, this South African woman in her forties has turned it into a real business.She even offers to generate novels on your behalf: $260 for a single book and $705 for a trilogy.

Nearly 400 novels written with the help of AI in less than 2 years

In just 20 months, Coral Hart has written—or rather generated—371 novels with the help of artificial intelligence. A figure that would certainly make George R. R. Martin, the author of Game of Thrones, feel dizzy. Coral Hart’s working process is relatively straightforward. First, she outlines the broad strokes of the story, the characters, and the overall structure of the book. She then provides these instructions to an AI, which produces a text. However, Coral Hart explains that the first draft is always “bad.” This is why she asks another AI to harmonize the whole thing, particularly the continuity of the narrative and overall consistency. Finally, a human proofreader ensures that the AI has not left any errors or inconsistencies. They may even rewrite certain passages if necessary.

The novelist also explains how she juggles different AIs. ChatGPT is thus “very good at dialogue,” Claude is “incredible for prose,” and Grok is “completely uninhibited,” and therefore particularly useful for generating daring scenes.

$260 to get an AI-generated book

Coral Hart explains on her website: “I wrote 96 short stories the hard way [without AI], sentence by sentence, and nobody wanted them. Then I found a faster method [AI] and found the solution.” She now claims to have sold more than one million books and generated $1 million in revenue in 2026.

However, the South African novelist does not limit herself to writing books with the help of artificial intelligence, as she also offers to generate them on your behalf. Thus, she can provide you with a book for $260, a trilogy for $705 and a six-volume saga for $1,335. All you have to do is provide a series of information about the novel you want: the different characters, the plot, the main storylines, etc. In other words, a universe bible.

Her working methods, however, have not been received particularly well. Just take a look through the comments section of posts about her. Coral Hart also told AFP that she has received “tens of thousands” of hateful messages and several death threats.The role of the creative process, which largely takes place through writing, nevertheless deserves to be examined in light of its working methods, since the drafting phase goes beyond merely arranging ideas.

« Today, if I say it, people will hate me, add my name to a list and threaten me », explains the author, emphasizing that « readers do not read bad books, they return them ».

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Source: France 24 with AFP