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coral.hart
2026 Press Kit
Section IV

# The talking points.

Approved positions, verbatim on-record language, and explicit boundaries. For interviewers, panel hosts, and anyone introducing Coral.

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Talking points · On the record

## Approved positions,
pre-cleared for press.

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Pull from this document for any interview, panel, press inquiry, or introduction. All quotes are verbatim from on-air appearances (April 2026) and pre-cleared for press use.

#### Key stats — all confirmed on-air April 2026

- 15 years in publishing
- 216 novels across 21 pen names — 96 pre-AI
- 1,600+ authors taught through PlotProse since 2013
- High six figures in 9 months of AI-assisted publishing — zero paid ads

- 10,000+ death threats in 24 hours after the NYT feature
- Imbali Award winner — regional equivalent of the former RITA
- Former Vice Chairperson, Romance Writers of Southern Africa
- Weekly Authors & AI Substack and show

#### What Coral will engage with — on the record

“Why do you use AI at all?”
“I look at it this way. AI can’t unlearn what it’s learned. It’s learned from my books, from all the books, from everything out there. I’m embracing this tool. I genuinely don’t think it will go away.” This is the Kindle conversation from 2010 all over again — and the same people who said eBooks would kill bookstores are now saying AI will kill authorship. She has lived through every wave of publishing disruption since Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and the self-publishing explosion.
“Isn’t AI stealing from authors?”
She makes a legal distinction the press often gets wrong: the Anthropic settlement was about pirated sources, not about whether AI training is copyright infringement. “The ruling wasn’t about the copyrights. They said the copyright was fair use, but Anthropic was in trouble because those 500,000 books were obtained through pirated websites.”
On inspiration vs. theft: “There is no original book idea in this world. There’s no trope that hasn’t been told. There’s no story that hasn’t been told. It’s how you tell it.”
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“What about the environmental impact?”
“I don’t care how much water ChatGPT uses. Netflix uses more, and so does Facebook, and so does the Instagram you’re on hurling insults at me. Before I used AI, I used about 7,000 notebooks a week. That’s paper. That’s chopping down the rainforest.”
“Are you a real writer?”
She refuses the premise. “I’m pretty sure I’m an author. I have an Imbali Award — the highest award for romance writing in my country. What is a real book? If you wrote it and it’s published, it’s a real book. Who decided the answer is different now?”
“Do you disclose AI use to readers?”
“I disclose everywhere the law and the platform require it — Amazon, and every platform that asks. There’s no requirement that I tell readers ‘I wrote this with AI’ any more than ‘I wrote this on a MacBook’ or ‘with a 2H pencil.’”
On the consequences of disclosing publicly: “The minute I did disclose it, I received about 14,000 death threats in one day. And readers didn’t know the difference. They had been reading the books and enjoying them.”
“What do you actually teach? Isn’t it a get-rich-quick scheme?”
No. The methodology is the same market-first, craft-first fundamentals she has taught since 2013: trope mapping, beat sheets, rapid release, newsletter marketing, reader psychology. “If writing books was a get-rich scheme, I’d be living on an island. It’s not easy.”
Her Launchpad mentorship is live, month-long, and explicitly about accountability. “I am there in person literally kicking their asses to do the work. There is no magic bullet. There’s no magic system.”
“Will AI replace authors?”
No, but it will sort them. “Good books will always float to the top. A reader will read one rubbish book by an author and never read them again. Successful authors know how to build a bridge from their books to their readers.”
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#### Signature lines — verbatim, encourage hosts to use

- I stopped being a writer a long time ago and became a publisher who writes.
- Writing is an art. Publishing is a business.
- Claude is my ghostwriter. I am the creative director.
- Readers are buying feelings, not books.
- Before I used AI, I used about 7,000 notebooks a week.
- We are on the hill. Get to the top of it. There’s no good reason to die on it.
- The most dangerous thing any person can be right now is afraid of AI.
- Your voice is your golden ticket. Protect it.

#### What Coral will not engage with

- Social media pile-ons or point-by-point replies to critics
- Revealing all of her pen names — safety / doxing risk after the NYT fallout
- The premise that she is “not a real writer” — she declines the framing every time
- Individual client or publisher names from her ghostwriting work
- Comparisons of specific authors’ writing quality
- “Can you prove a human wrote this?” hot takes — defers to Derek Newton / Verify My Writing for detection-tool questions
- Political framings of AI beyond industry-specific policy

#### Topics Coral is happy to go deep on

- Craft and story structure (Romancing the Beat, Fichtean Curve, why Save the Cat is not universal)
- Reader psychology and trope-mapping
- Rapid release and newsletter marketing (pre- and post-AI)
- The economics of indie vs. traditional publishing
- What the Kindle & Kindle Unlimited transitions taught us

- The Anthropic lawsuit — piracy vs. training, the technical distinction
- Running a portfolio of pen names
- Writer-to-publisher mindset shift
- What to say to new authors starting now
- Ghostwriting at scale & when to hand off

Voice approved 22 April 2026 Signature lines pre-cleared for editorial reuse
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