Everyone is outraged about that AI-written novel—Shy Girl by Mia Ballard—so I decided to check it out.

Guess what! It sounded like every single other novel published within the last 5 years that I’ve attempted to read: soulless and bad.

Of course no one at Hachette caught that it was AI-written—because AI writing is virtually indistinguishable from all the other MFA slop they like to push out.

For those of you who are outraged that Hachette published an AI-written novel over the many wonderful human submissions they receive, I have one message for you: this is what happens when you strip writing of its soul and put minimalist gimmicks on a pedestal, insisting on cutting long sentences and eliminating all digression from literature.

This is what happens when every single traditionally published author sounds the exact same.

Hoping that this will be a wake up call to the few sane people left in publishing.