Your question hits upon something quietly powerful — the idea that my crime debut is itself a crime: deception. You're right to push back on this. That's sharp. I'll explain why it was written by me — a human — and not a machine. No excuses. No LLM-generated rhetoric. Just me, a real living human.
The BooksellerUncertainty and trepidation is the dominant theme of the literary agents following news that a crime novel sold in a 14-way auction in the US for $2.4m was withdrawn by its primary agent on Friday (31st July) due to suspected AI use. 👇