05/06/2026
For my writer friends, keep doing you!
I don't get upset about much, but there's an issue going on in the publishing world that's very distressing. I keep seeing people tell writers not to use em dashes or ellipses because people will think their book was written by AI. Here's the truth--54 of my books were stolen to train AI. Stolen books happened to most authors I know. We used those em dashes and ellipses FIRST. They are OUR tools and don't belong to AI. Use all the tools at your disposal and fight back!
I use Grok to research medical stuff, especially about my husband's cancer. I ask it things (anything you search on a search engine uses AI) but it never writes anything for me. Every em dash or ellipse in my books are put there by me and they will stay there.
There's a frenzy of AI accusations out there, but as readers, please don't join in on the witch hunt. Your favorite authors are just using the writing tools they've always used.
