The piece about AI in romance novels (which, I mean, has been very widespread, I don’t think this is surprising) has reminded me of this excellent @xwaldie.bsky.social article of a year ago about romantasy that I think about probably weekly at least:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com
Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.