The Bookseller earlier this week published an article highlighting how agents, such as Greene & Heaton, are changing their policies after an influx of AI-assisted submissions began flooding their inboxes.
And rightly so – because AI is everywhere right now.
It’s reshaping industries, accelerating workflows, and quietly embedding itself into the tools we use every day. In publishing, that can feel both exciting and unsettling as we adjust and adapt to this new AI-present world we’re facing. Authors are campaigning over IP concerns. Charts are being swamped by AI-generated content. Some writers are experimenting. Some are wary. Some are embracing while others are quietly using these tools and unsure whether they should admit it.
As a fiction editor specialising in crime, thriller, and suspense novels, I work with authors at developmental, line, and copyediting stages, and one of the questions I’m increasingly asked is how writers should think about AI in the editorial process.
So how to navigate this new world? Let’s start here.
