Tuesday 6 October 2026Coral Wire · today’s wire
AI and authorship. The future of romance publishing. What the headlines got wrong, and what working authors actually need to do next. If that’s the room you’re building, she’ll show up ready.
Founder story, craft talk, business case study, or on-the-record panel, matched to the room you’re programming.
What happens when the industry you love becomes the story everyone’s fighting about, and the pragmatic playbook for staying in business through the change. Part founder story, part case study, part survival guide. Finishes with a Q&A that answers the hard questions.
Why tooling changes nothing about the emotional contract between a romance author and her reader, and how to keep it intact while your workflow triples. Built from fifteen years of editing manuscripts that didn’t work, and writing 216 that did.
The founder-operator story of PlotProse: a six-figure teaching business built on a fifteen-year craft, and what it takes to build an indie career in 2026. Numbers, frameworks, and the thing nobody talks about: pen-name portfolio strategy.
What transparency actually looks like, why disclosure is harder than it sounds, and what authors, platforms and readers need from each other now. For media panels that want a practitioner, not a pundit.
| Format | Length | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | 45 to 60 minutes, usually with Q&A | Conference opener or closer. Tight deck, room to improvise, no dead weight. |
| Panel | Programme length | The practitioner voice among journalists, academics or industry figures. Strong on AI ethics, publishing economics, genre futures. |
| Podcast | Long-form or short, live or produced | She comes in with the receipts. If it’s about authorship, AI or indie publishing, she’s prepared. |
| Fireside | A slower interview | For a curated audience: retreats, masterminds, invite-only summits. One-on-one with a host who’s done the homework. |
Coral Hart is a bestselling romance novelist and founder of PlotProse. In her own words, “a publisher who writes, not a writer who publishes.”
She has trained more than 2,400 authors to build sustainable book businesses, and spent fifteen years in publishing, as editor, cover designer, ghostwriter and indie publisher, before her first bestseller. Author of 216 novels across 21 pen names. Imbali Award winner, the regional equivalent of the former RITA. Unapologetic about all of it.
“A publisher who writes, not a writer who publishes.”
Coral Hart