Monday 12 October 2026Coral Wire · today’s wire
Where we put our arguments about AI, disclosure and the business of publishing. By Coral Hart.
I noticed something odd last week. My search console showed me that sixty-seven people a month are searching for "Coral Hart AI." Not my books. Not my name alone. The phrase, specifically, with AI…
I’ve been watching the conversations unfold since Amazon announced the AI disclosure requirement, and what strikes me most isn’t the policy itself—it’s the silence that followed for so many of us.
Colleen Hoover just wrapped Reminders of Him for theaters. Ana Huang’s Twisted series is everywhere. Netflix is developing another romance adaptation. And if you’re sitting there thinking “good for…
The romance community had a moment this week. Someone DNF’d a book for “romanticizing AI generators,” and honestly? I get it.
People ask me whether AI can write a romance novel almost every day. My answer is always the same: the wrong question. After 15 years in this industry, two stints with Harlequin and Mills & Boon, and…
Then The Independent mentioned me in the same sentence as Mia Ballard and Shy Girl.
I’ve published over 200 romance novels. Some of them took months to write. Some took weeks. The difference? Not talent or caffeine (though both help) — it was learning to use AI as a creative…
When Indie Author Magazine ran their piece on me last week, the focus was the number: 200 novels. Readers fixated on “how fast.” But speed was never the point. I got fast because I got precise…