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Coral Hart is a bestselling sweet small-town romance author and AI writing pioneer. Author of 216 novels across 21 pen names, founder of PlotProse, and featured in The New York Times, she writes essays at Authors and AI and speaks on the future of commercial fiction.

Coral Hart is a bestselling romance author with fifteen years in publishing. She has published 216 novels across 21 pen names — ninety-six written the long way, the rest produced in close collaboration with AI tools. A pioneer of AI-assisted commercial fiction, she was profiled by The New York Times in February 2026 and has since become one of the most-cited voices on the intersection of craft, commerce, and the new writing technologies. She is the founder of PlotProse, a training community for romance authors, publishes essays at Authors and AI on Substack, and speaks regularly at industry events. She lives on the Oregon coast.

Coral Hart is a bestselling sweet small-town romance author who has spent the last fifteen years quietly running one of the most productive writing careers in commercial fiction. She published her first novel in 2010 and, over the following twelve years, wrote ninety-six more under a rotating set of twenty-one pen names. In 2022 she became one of the earliest and most thoughtful adopters of large language models as a writing collaborator, producing a further one hundred and twenty novels through an approach she now teaches as "the Coral Method." […download full version for the rest.]