No AI-generated text in my fiction. Every word is mine.
AI Use Statement
No AI-generated text appears in my fiction — novels or short stories. Every word is written by me.
I do use AI tools during editing — to flag problems in my own drafts, such as repeated words, consistency errors, and pacing issues. These tools never write, rewrite, or suggest changes. They point out what to look at; every decision about what to keep, cut, or change is mine. This applies to everything I publish as fiction, including (future) self-published short story collections.
I’ll highlight one distinction, because people use "AI" to mean very different things. Some uses are assistive: the tool supports a task — checking spelling and grammar, scanning a late draft for repeated names or tense slips, helping with research — while the work itself stays human-created. Other uses are generative: the tool produces content, or helps produce it. The most important thing for fiction isn't which kind of software is running underneath — it's whether generated text ends up on the page. In my fiction, it doesn't.
So, to be specific: I have not used AI to generate my plots, my prose, my book covers, or my print and ebook formatting.
Generative AI outside the manuscript
I have used generative AI in a few ways that are not part of my books, and I label these as AI-generated wherever the platform allows it:
Promotional images based on my characters, used as supplementary material for social media and this website. These are marked as AI-generated.
A song built from my own lyrics, written from the perspective of Sarina, the main character of The Red Line. The lyrics and creative direction are mine; the voice and music are AI-generated.
(Not every platform supports AI-generation labelling yet — but that's coming.)
My blog and other non-fiction
I work a little differently here. I write my own first drafts and the words, ideas, and opinions are mine — but I do use AI more actively in support: to help organise my thoughts, and to research points I'm mulling over. The thinking and the writing are still mine; the tool helps me get where I want to go.
An AI generated image of Sarina from The Red Line.
A note on the ethics
I recognise the serious ethical concerns around AI, particularly the use of writers', musicians', and visual artists' work to train these models without consent. It's an uncomfortable co-existence. These tools are now widely used despite real, unresolved questions about their origins. I use them pragmatically while still investing in human creators — requesting particular novels for my library, buying vinyl and audiobooks, and saving up for a limited-edition print from a photographer I admire. My point is that the arts aren't lost to any of this. Most of the time, we still seek out the human hand.