AI Use Policy

After gathering experience working with authors who have used AI, or LLMs, to generate or assist their writing, I am aligning my work exclusively with human creators. Beyond using light composition software assistants, such as spelling and grammar checkers, I do not support AI use to create books. Here are some reasons for this decision. 

• I support books as expressions of unique visions and voices. If an author isn’t writing authentically, in ways that reach readers on a personal level through a trusting relationship, they are more likely to share empty words than meaningful insights. 

• I see books as a format for connecting people in need of help with guides who are genuinely trustworthy. If I am reading a manuscript while looking for signs of AI use, a subtle sense of automatic distrust prevents me from editing confidently.

• I offer education to writers based on what I see in their manuscript. If they aren’t solely responsible for the content or the writing, my efforts are in vain. I work with authors who want to learn and grow their own skills.

• I value our living environment—intellectual, emotional, natural, economic—and find that AI use harms what I care about. LLMs have been trained on others’ work without permission or compensation. Its agents do not understand or perceive the effects of advice on people. The cost to the well-being of our landscapes is high. And many people are now out of work as a result of widespread use. 

Writing a book is hard. I understand that. But enlisting AI’s help will cost you down the road, whether it’s fixing a manuscript, ensuring you can copyright your work, or facing the grey areas of contractual disclosure with editors, publishing houses, and distributors. By working with me, you gain 25 years of earned experience and a human relationship that can make all the hard work feel rewarding.

For more information and recommendations on navigating LLM and AI use as a writer, see The Authors Guild website here: https://authorsguild.org/resource/ai-best-practices-for-authors/