--- title: "Author Says the Hundreds of Full-Length Romance Novels She Publishes Every Year Are Very High Quality in Spite of AI Usage" description: "South African \"writer\" Coral Hart insists that her AI-generated books are solid, because they draw on numerous large language models." date: "2026-11-15" modified: "2026-11-15" authors: - name: "Joe Wilkins" job_title: "Correspondent" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jwilkins.md" url: "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/author-hundreds-romance-novels-ai" categories: - "Art" - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Ethics" - "Future Society" --- # Author Says the Hundreds of Full-Length Romance Novels She Publishes Every Year Are Very High Quality in Spite of AI Usage ![A woman typing on a laptop.]() *Shutterstock / Futurism* What does it take to become a prolific novelist in the year 2026? Just a web browser loaded with your favorite AI chatbots, apparently. New details are emerging about the process used by South African "writer" Coral Hart to churn out nearly 400 books since February 2025, or about a book every other day, using a buffet of large language models (LLMs) to generate her prose. According to Singaporean publication [the *Straits Times*](), Hart — who uses more than ten pen names to hide her identity when she actually sells the books — has around 14 years of experience in the publishing game, during which she initially authored a few dozen romance novels the old fashioned way. Now, however, Hart says she uses a blend of ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok to generate her books for her, and she couldn't be happier about the results. ChatGPT, for example, is "really good at dialogue, terrible at prose," while Claude is "terrible at sex drives," Hart [told *Agence France*-*Presse*]() in an interview. Luckily, Grok is there to build the "spicy scenes," though it's "completely unhinged" at other moments. Though most authors and readers treat [AI like a scarlet letter](), Hart has evidently settled into a comfortable place with her quantity-over-quality approach, rationalizing that the "books are selling." Thanks to recent advances in LLMs, "I can now draft the whole book in one sequence," she says. True enough, if you divide her output of 370 total novels by the number of days since February 1st of 2025, you arrive at a rate of one book for every 1.75 days, or about four books per week. Despite receiving "tens of thousands" of hate messages about her process, the South African content creator — "author" doesn't feel quite accurate — thinks of herself as something of an ambassador for the process, in spite of the infamy it's brought her. "For the last 16 years, nobody's asked me what my creative process was," she told *AFP* — evidently taking the old saying that there's "no such thing as bad publicity" to heart. "This is here," Hart told *AFP*. "They're not going to switch it off or unplug it because a bunch of authors said so." **More on AI:** *[ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics]()* ## Author At Futurism, I focus on the intersection of technology and power — examining the economics, history, and politics behind today’s dystopian headlines. As a writer, I’m interested in topics ranging from AI’s impact on labor to startups nobody asked for. My prior work includes bylines in Jacobin, Verso, and Blue Labyrinths. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Forbes, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Time, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Verge, and Wired. I grew up in Michigan, attending Central Michigan University as well as Ball State University, where I earned a master of music. I now live in Brooklyn with my girlfriend and our cat Ziti. On weekends, you can find me hunched over a cold pint arguing geopolitics with the other transplants. ### Author social links [Bluesky]() ## More - [Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI]() - [Hack “Writers” Fuming After ChatGPT Starts Refusing Prompts to Copy a Specific Author’s Style]() - [“Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up]() - [Idiot Students Are Submitting Answers Saying “I Am an AI Language Model”]() - [Your Brain Will Melt When You Hear How This Author Is Using ChatGPT]() - [Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of Using AI, for a Very Cynical Reason]() - [Authors Are Starting to Use AI to Quickly Churn Out Novels]() - [Author Annoyed to Find Amazon Selling AI-Generated Books Under Her Name]()