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I’ve completed the first edits for the “The Cleaner, the Cat and the Space Station” audiobook!
Now all I have to do is:
• Rerecord the glitches
• Do the effects/sound mastering
• Prooflisten, export to MP3
• Upload to a distributor (Kobo to start, others to follow)
I’m hoping to get that far this autumn. Watch this space!
My audiobook pilot project, “The Man with the Dragon Tattoo”, is free with my newsletter: https://fayabernethy.com
I just did an author interview with the magnificent Introverted Indies!
They asked me about my writing process and I answered in some detail.
If you’re curious how I turn handwritten notes into Amazon-bestselling solarpunk novels, read the interview here:
https://lucyamclarenauthor.co.uk/2026/04/29/introverted-indies-interview-fay-abernethy/
Introverted Indies:
https://www.youtube.com/@IntrovertedIndies
instagram.com/introvertedindies
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My books are in the Human Authored Database!
https://humanauthored.co.uk/
The Human Authored logo helps readers see at a glance whether a book is a genuine expression of human creativity, or if it has been machine-generated by a Large Language Model (trained without permission on the copyrighted work of humans, including mine).
If you’re a member of the UK Society of Authors, you can register your books for free.
#AI generated #code may be more likely than #humanauthored code to introduce #security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can be very difficult to recognize during the code review process.
Human-authored
In response to the slew of machine-generated books swamping retailers and filling up agents’ and editors’ inboxes, the Society of Authors in the UK has launched the ‘human-authored’ website and logo, for writers to confirm that their works were produced 100% by them (including human writing partners etc), and not by a machine.
It applies to any book released after 2020, and you have to sign a declaration and be vetted before you can use the logo.
I’m proud to confirm that all my books since 2020 are certified human-authored, and all those to come will be, too. The ones that came before (the Godblind trilogy) are also human-authored, but for that, you’ll have to take my promise for it.
Anyone who’s seen me talk about my writing process or follows me on social media will know that my process is, shall we say, organic in nature. Could a machine write such chaotic first drafts? I think not.
To which, the detractors will no doubt cry: “so why don’t you use the lying machine (they wouldn’t call it that, of course) to ‘write’ it for you?”
And to which my answer is, and always will be: where’s the fun in that? Where’s the challenge in that? Where, in there, would I have those moments of epiphany, those massive plot twists, those sudden revelations and reversals of fortune that make my work MY work? Why, for the love of writing, would I want to outsource the imaginative, creative, frustrating, hilarious, grinding drudgery, moments of elation, chaotic, fun part of writing to something that has no concept of art or story? To a pattern-recognition machine regurgitating a pallid shadow of the millions upon millions of words it has illegally eaten?
That’s a serious question, by the way.
WHY WOULD I WANT TO LOSE THE PART OF WRITING THAT IS WRITING?
I’m not in this solely for the end product. I’m in this to discover what I think and feel about the world, how I interact with it, which parts of it make me furious, how I would change it. I’m in this to test myself, challenge my beliefs, challenge my skill to improve. I’m in this BECAUSE the work is hard. There was an American president worthy of the title who said something similar about the moon landings, I believe.
So, there you have it. This human wrote their own books. And will continue to do so. Forever.
#ai #books #fiction #humanAuthored #Writing
UK Society of #Authors launches logo to identify #books written by #humans not #AI
The Society of Authors (SoA) has launched a scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by #AI-generated books.
The scheme is the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association, and allows authors to register their books and download a “Human Authored” logo to display on their back cover.
@pcawdron Bravo! This is the cachet of the future. I think we're going to see a lot more human-authored AI-free Real human made and the like in #marketing #humanauthored #AIfree #Realhumanmade
It is mandatory for humans to use such possibilities
If you write a book use the license!!!
https://authorsguild.org/human-authored/
#HumanAuthored #humanrights
📢 Big news for authors! The Authors Guild just launched Human Authored, a certification to protect authentic, human-created literature. Stay ahead in the AI era & support real writers. Learn more & get certified! ✍️📖
🔗https://authorsguild.org/human-authored/
#Authortunities #HumanAuthored #WritersRights #PublishingNews #AuthorsGuild #AuthenticWriting
I must be real cranky at being awake at 4am but this makes me furious.
https://indieauthors.social/@indieauthornews/113918984694284494
Humans to certify their books as human-authored?
Only open to US Guild members for now? I bet non-members will be able use it for a fee.
This is just extra grift from a organisation powerless to actually protect its members but happy enough to exploit them.
The idea that humans will have to go to the extra time and expense to mark their books as actually authored — without safeguards that AI slop producers won’t just fake the stupid logo on their own drek — is just another dystopian brick in the timeline.