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2026 Press Kit
Section III

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Bios · Three lengths

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Short 50 words

Coral Hart wrote 216 novels across 21 pen names in 15 years, then got 10,000 death threats for admitting she’d used AI. The bestselling romance novelist, Imbali Award winner, and founder of PlotProse is the voice publishing turns to on AI — featured in The New York Times and NPR’s 1A.

Medium 150 words

Coral Hart wrote 216 novels across 21 pen names in 15 years and got death threats from 10,000 strangers for admitting how. The bestselling romance novelist and founder of PlotProse is now one of publishing’s most-quoted voices on AI — featured in The New York Times, NPR’s 1A, Brave New Bookshelf, and Writing With AI — not because she apologises for the tools but because she doesn’t. She has taught more than 1,600 authors her craft-first methodology, The Coral Method, through her flagship Launchpad mentorship: one month, blank page to three published books. She wrote 96 novels the traditional way before picking up Claude. An Imbali Award winner, former Vice Chairperson of the Romance Writers of Southern Africa, and on the record: “Writing is art. Publishing is a business. I stopped being a writer a long time ago and became a publisher who writes.”

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Long 350 words

Coral Hart wrote 216 novels across 21 pen names in 15 years and got death threats from 10,000 strangers for admitting how. The bestselling romance novelist and founder of PlotProse is now one of publishing’s most-quoted voices on AI — not because she apologises for the tools but because she doesn’t.

She started in 2010, under a different name. Fifteen years and every part of the industry — traditional, hybrid, indie, ghostwriting, slush-pile reading at a Big Six, editor, proofreader, cover designer — before she ever opened Claude. Pre-AI, she wrote 96 novels the old way and won South Africa’s Imbali Award for romance writing excellence, the regional equivalent of the former RITA. She served as Vice Chairperson of the Romance Writers of Southern Africa and has been teaching writing craft since 2013, long before AI made it fashionable to do so.

In February 2025 she set herself an experiment: could she hit six figures writing AI-assisted fiction in a year with zero paid advertising? The answer came in nine months. 216 novels. 21 pen names. High six figures, no ads. The New York Times put her at the centre of the AI-and-romance conversation in February 2026 with “Can AI Chatbots Write Emotionally Rich Romance Books?” — and within 24 hours she had over 10,000 death threats, plus harassment aimed at her children. She has since appeared on NPR’s 1A, Brave New Bookshelf, and Writing With AI, and her own blog addresses the controversy head-on.

What she actually teaches — through PlotProse, her flagship one-month Launchpad mentorship, and her methodology The Coral Method — is not an AI get-rich scheme. It is the same market-first, craft-first fundamentals she has taught for over a decade: trope mapping, beat sheets, rapid release, newsletter marketing, reader psychology. More than 1,600 authors have been through her programmes. Her weekly Authors & AI Substack and show of the same name document the publishing-and-AI conversation in real time. Her signature line, on the record: “I stopped being a writer a long time ago and became a publisher who writes.”

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