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I have put together a list of 17 useful ways for authors to use AI. You can download a copy from my author's website:

Useful ways of Using AI as a Fiction Author
By Donald Firesmith
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General
1. Use Multiple AIs. Different AIs have different strengths. The best results often come by combining the best parts from multiple AIs. I most often use ChatGPT 4o, ChatGPT o1, Claude Sonnet 3.5, editGPT, and NoteBookLM.
2. Ask for Multiple Example Results. Not every response is useful, and some responses are partially useful. The best results often come by combining the best parts of multiple results.
Writing:
3. Book/Story Critiques. Ask multiple AIs to write a book review of the book or short story (then attach the manuscript or copy/past into the AI’s prompt box). Besides strengths, it will list potential weaknesses and suggested improvements. Decide which weaknesses you want to fix and rewrite them. Ask the AIs to write a new critique based on the new version of the manuscript. Repeat until you have addressed all the weaknesses you wanted to fix.
Challenges:
� Every weakness identified by the AI may not apply to your specific story as you want to tell it. For example, the AI might suggest additional content that would increase the story’s scope beyond what you want to include.
� Different AIs will probably identify slightly different weaknesses, so ask multiple AIs for book reviews.
� Only some of the AIs allow you to attach book-length manuscripts.
4. Book Reviews. Ask the AI to write a book review of the book or short story (then attach the manuscript or copy/past into the AI’s prompt box). Besides strengths, it will list potential weaknesses. Decide which weaknesses you want to fix and rewrite them. Ask the AI to write a new book review based on the new version of the manuscript. Repeat until you have addressed all the weaknesses you wanted to fix.
5. Suggested Text. If you are stuck on a particular paragraph or bit of dialog, ask the AI to (re)write that specific text. You can ask it to give you multiple suggestions. Either use the suggestion as is, as a trigger to write/rewrite the text, or ignore the suggestion if inappropriate for your story. For example, use the “Improve� button of the tool, editGPT.
Challenges:
� Some of the suggestions may well be inappropriate for your story.
� Some AIs have trouble with dialog suggestions. For example, the tool might suggest a formal way of saying something that is inconsistent with the voice of the character or would have all characters speaking with the same voice.
6. Technical Expert. Use the AI about specific topics so you can correctly describe them.
7. Brainstorm. Ask the AI for suggestions about what a specific character might say or do in the given situation.
8. Character Description. Use generative AI to give you pictures of your characters so that you consistently describe them.
9. Illustrations. Use generative AI to produce illustrations for the book (e.g., major characters and events).
Advertising/Marketing:
10. Title. Use multiple AIs to suggest multiple book or short story titles based on the plot or the manuscript.
11. Book Cover. Use generative AI to produce the cover art for the book. The image needs to be the correct size and at least 300 dpi for paperback and hardback books. Use graphics tools to add the book title and author name (front cover and spine) and book blog, and optionally the author picture, brief author bio, and barcode.
12. Log Lines. A log line is a single sentence that acts as hooks to get the potential readers to consider buying the book. Ask multiple AIs to write the multiple (e.g., 10-20) log lines of the book or short story (then attach the manuscript or copy/past into the AI’s prompt box). These are often in boldface and placed at the top of book blurbs on the backs of books and on sales descriptions on the book’s webpages of the author’s website and the bookseller’s (e.g., Amazon) website.
Challenges:
� Only a very few of these suggested log lines will be inappropriate and sufficiently powerful for your story.
13. Book Blurb. A book blurb is one to three brief paragraphs about the book that is printed on the back cover of paperbacks and hardback that is designed to convince potential readers to buy the book. Ask multiple AIs to write the multiple (e.g., 5-10) blurbs of the book or short story (then attach the manuscript or copy/past into the AI’s prompt box). Combine the best parts of the different suggested book blurbs to create your actual book blurb.
Challenges:
� You will probably not use any of the suggested book blurbs as is. Only rarely will a book blurb be appropriate.
� Ensure that the book blurb has the proper characteristics of a good book blurb.
14. Sales Description. A book’s sales description is typically bigger than a book blurb and placed on the book’s webpage of the author’s website and the bookseller’s (e.g., Amazon) website. Ask multiple AIs to write the multiple (e.g., 3-5) sales descriptions of the book or short story (attach the manuscript or copy/past into the AI’s prompt box). Combine the best parts of the different suggested book sales descriptions to create your actual sales description.
15. Book Trailer Script. Give the AI a copy of your manuscript and ask it to give you the script for a 30 or 60 second book trailer. It will probably also suggest music types, narrator voice types, and suggested types of images.
16. Deep Dive Video. A “deep dive� audio is a conversation between two people about a document produced by Google’s NotebookLM tool. A deep dive video can be made from the audio file, the cover of the book, and a graphics tool.
17. Memorable Quotes. You can ask the AI to list memorable quotes from the book, which you can use in advertisements and the book’s webpage on our author’s website.

I overly rely on similes, so I ask the AI for what a sentence might look like using other literary techniques. I'll try your suggestions for editGPT. Thank you for the article, Donald!

I find this whole subject of using AI to write novels and to be 'authors' deeply insulting to the notion of writing. Good books are produced through the imagination, writing skills and story-telling talents of PEOPLE, not through the use of machines who merely assemble together pieces of writing they copied on the Internet. Don't call yourself an 'author' if you rely on AI to write a book for you.

I tried to use A.I. to design the book cover of a novel. I ended up doing the cover myself, since the A.I. kept producing covers that looked as if someone hired a young, attractive model for a terrorist recruiting poster.

I felt that the cover lacked authenticity. And it looked like a million other paperback covers out there. So, no thanks to that.