By Amelia Hill
Publication Date: 2026-03-29 09:00:00
Recently, literary agent Kate Nash noticed that the submission letters she was receiving from authors were becoming more thorough—if more formulaic.
“I saw it as an increase in hard work,” she said. “I thought it would be a good thing.”
But then she had what she described as her aha moment: the letter with the AI prompt at the top. “It said, ‘Rewrite my query letter for Kate Nash and write an invitation to a writer who represents her,'” she said.
After seeing the prompt, Nash was “no longer able to hide AI-powered or AI-written queries.”
However, last week’s news that Mia Ballard’s “Femgore” horror novel Shy Girl may be 78% AI-generated has forced literary agents and publishers alike to consider whether…
