Coral Hart in AFP: “370 books in 20 months: S.African author defends her use of AI”

Coral describes her process to AFP. She supplies the story: the concept, the style, the characters and the chapter outlines. Her system then generates the book from that, and she says she can now draft a whole book in one sequence. First drafts are rough, she says, so AI developmental and continuity edits follow, and then a human proofreader goes through it.

AFP reports that she has published more than 370 books since February 2025. By her own estimate she has sold over a million copies across digital, print and audio and earned more than $1 million so far this year. AFP also notes that she has trained several hundred people in her method and that her team is preparing Authorythm, software for authors who write with AI.

The story also covers the hate messages and threats she has received, and the “AI slop” charge from critics. Coral’s answer is about readers: “Books are selling,” she tells AFP, and “Readers don’t read rubbish books; they return them.”

On why she is speaking in public, she says: “I chose to be the one to step up and say, these are conversations we need to start having.”

Read the full story at AFP, via Yahoo News: https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/370-books-20-months-african-024209725.html

Quotes and figures as reported by AFP (Thomas Urbain), 23 October 2026.