Author4229 Jul 2025 15:10
Thank you for some interesting posts/reflections in the past few hours.
I remember JonnyPragmatic's and IrR77's excellent reports after capAI's General Meeting that they attended. Also, that after the meeting, Dr Ronjon Nag gave a demonstration of the AI driven book writing app that will completely write a book for you. After the subject matter was given, he then began, and within a matter of minutes, the words, pages & chapters started to appear and be populated in real time. I believe that Dr Nag also did something similar later at an interview or equivalent (sorry, I can't remember where I saw it).
I have looked around various AI writing tools available on the market. These are currently limited in scope, compared to the above. If the above comprises the basis of Author42 and, for example, it also includes an editing, publishing, marketing and maybe translation facility - which I think that it probably will (?), then I think that this will be of massive interest to almost all writers, and those who would like to give writing a go. As has been said "there is a book waiting to be written within each one of us."
My previous published book took 3-4 years to write, my current one will take 18 months. Okay, mine is non-fiction, semi-academic and with hundreds of references, but the vast majority of published books are fiction.
Both Crownos and myself - and maybe others who look at this board - are authors. Both of us have already signed up for Author42. This is a snip at $19.99 or $49.99 pcm or whatever. To me, this looks like something completely novel for the market. They plan to sub-licence this to publishers and we have worldwide rights to Author42. If this is what they are offering, or even half as good, then it is most certainly a world-beater and with a huge take-up.
Anyway, just my current opinion on where we're at.