OK but why would your AI be sending out book club spam? Is it trying to get you to pay for coming to the book club?

I've seen these. They promise a book club with a wide audience, and then you need to pay for having your book present [or some other fee].

It's to take advantage of authors who want to get their book seen and read and bought. Book clubs used to be a good mechanism for word of mouth marketing.

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vintagedave 4 hours ago | parent [-]

On that note I get the impression the whole publishing industry has an AI problem. I wrote a novel and started sending it out to agents recently. The number of agents who emphasise no-AI, or simply say that due to volume they won't reply... Then, as an aspiring author you rapidly start getting messages offering editor services, or book clubs (like this), or agent access, and it becomes clear those are AI and require payment (ie are scams) too.

My novel isn't even one of the popular self-published genres (eg romantasy.) It's literature, set in post-sea-rise northern Europe where a drowned city's remaining above-water blocks have divided into political enclaves, and one young woman's journey. It's part adventure, part political satire. Think Metro 2033 on water in Europe. Tech bros and startups, librarians and sea monsters. I think this is difficult enough to find an agent for, but AI spam does not care and will target you relentlessly.

	▲	abnercoimbre an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I heard about some new agencies requiring "proof of work" which means mailing a handwritten manuscript. Sucks for the author, but that would filter out most AI spam and give real authors a better chance, right?
	▲	malfist 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Your book sounds really interesting! Hope you get it published
	▲	velcrovan 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Agents have always had more queries than they could handle, this is not new to the AI era.