This is a really good thread, and I suspect it’s true. Long before AI, 25 yrs ago, I remember various people telling me they were going to write a quick romance novel “for the money” (an M&B advance then was around £5k). None of them could do it. Editors & readers didn’t respond to insincerity.
Alex von Tunzelmann
I have a theory about AI in publishing/writing, and readers. In 1984, Janice Radway wrote a book called Reading the Romance. She analysed groups of readers and buyers/consumers of commercial romance fiction, and discovered that, far from behaving like 'consumers' of what was rather rudely considered
