Resources for Fiction Authors

The AI tools and resources I use in my own writing and visibility practice — curated, tested, and author-approved.

Featured Tools

These are a few of my favourite AI tools. Let's see if they become some of yours as well.

(This resource page contains affiliate links, but I only share products I use and love!)

An AI-powered knowledge tool that acts like a personal memory assistant, helping you instantly retrieve and organize everything you’ve seen, read, or saved—articles, videos, PDFs, and more. It automatically summarizes content and connects related information, making research and world-building easier for writers. Use the Promo Code aimagic to get a 10% discount.

AuthorScale is a book marketing platform that helps authors turn their books into short-form social content without spending hours designing posts. It can create hooks, Kindle-style screenshots, slideshows, and videos for TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, with options to use AI, work manually, or combine both approaches.

ChatGPT is a versatile AI language model that chats about pretty much anything. It assists with writing, problem-solving, and information retrieval. For authors, ChatGPT offers brainstorming support, helps overcome writer's block, and aids in research and fact-checking. It can generate plot ideas, develop characters, and even assist with dialogue creation, enhancing the writing process.

Claude is an AI assistant that helps authors by generating ideas for plots, characters, and scenes, helping to overcome writer's block. It excels at research, summarization, editing, Q&A, decision-making, code-writing and complex analysis tasks.

More AI Tools and Resources for Fiction Authors

A.I. is also being incorporated into existing tools. These are tools which I use regularly.

Notion is a flexible workspace tool for authors to organize writing projects. Its strength is customizability, offering templates for novel outlines, submission tracking, and research management. Notion allows creation of interconnected databases for characters, plots, and worldbuilding. With collaborative features, authors can work efficiently with editors or co-writers, keeping all writing-related information in one accessible place.

Publisher Rocket is a market research tool for authors, excelling in data-driven insights for book marketing. It helps find profitable keywords, analyze competition, and understand market trends. Authors can use it to optimize book titles and descriptions for Amazon discoverability, find relevant categories, and estimate potential earnings. Publisher Rocket empowers authors to make informed decisions about book positioning, potentially boosting visibility and sales.

Canva has integrated AI directly into its design platform, helping users create and edit visuals, generate images and copy, resize content for different platforms, remove or replace elements, and speed up repetitive design work. For authors, that can mean producing social media graphics, promotional materials, presentations, lead magnets, and other marketing assets without constantly moving between separate tools.

Pubfunnels is an all-in-one marketing and business hub designed specifically for authors, offering funnels, products, courses, CRM, and more with features tailored to the publishing community.

Pubfunnels integrates all essential tools into one platform, replacing the need for multiple subscriptions like Salesforce, Calendly, Clickfunnels, Kajabi, ConvertKit, and more, streamlining an author's entire business setup.

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Findable. Selectable. Trustable.

A Workbook for Authors

Readers are asking AI what to read next. This workbook helps you see what AI currently finds about you and your books, whether it understands who your work is for, and where the gaps may be preventing it from recommending you.

Work through the three layers of AI Visibility — Findable, Selectable, and Trustable — using real searches, AI prompts, and practical exercises.

Price: $27 USD

Get the Amazon bestseller "Writing Fiction with Chat GPT: How to Use AI Prompts to Write a Better Novel Faster"

Great Writing Deserves to Be Found

You've put in the work. The stories are good — maybe really good.

But in a world where readers increasingly discover books through algorithms, AI-powered recommendations, and digital search,

being a great writer isn't always enough.

The authors getting found aren't necessarily the best writers.

They're the ones whose work is visible to the systems readers rely on.

That's where I come in. As a bestselling author with over 26 years of tech industry experience, I bridge the world of storytelling and the mechanics of modern discovery – so you don't have to choose between protecting your creative voice and reaching the readers who need your work.

Want a Deeper Review?

If you’d rather have me assess your full author ecosystem for you, the Author Visibility Audit looks at how clearly and consistently AI can find, understand, and recommend you and your books — and identifies the gaps that need attention first.

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”

Ancient Chinese Proverb

FAQs

Question #1 - What do you mean by "AI for writer systems" (not AI writing the book) ?

I use AI as a systems assistant, not a ghostwriter. It helps with planning, organization, research, revision workflow, and visibility. Storytelling — that's me putting words on the page.

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Question #2 - If I don't want AI drafting my stories, what can it help with?

A lot of the behind-the-scenes work, like:

- brainstorming angles and "what if"

- ooutlineing and scene checklists

- research summaries + question generation

- continuity tracking (timeline, details, character facts)

- revision support (clarity, pacing, stakes)

- marketing + visibility assets (blurbs, metadata ideas, pitches

Question #3 - What is an AI Visibility Session?

A focused 1:1 review of your public author footprint — bio, website, retailer pages, metadata, and positioning — so both readers and modern discovery systems can instantly understand who you are, what you write, and who it's for. You leave with a clear set of fixes and next steps.

Question #4 - Will using AI in my writing process affect my copyright?

Generally, no. AI is a tool, like a word processor. The creative input is still yours. But always check the latest legal advice.

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Question #5 - How do I choose the right AI tools as an author?

Start with your workflow, not the tool. Identify where you lose time or momentum — outlining, research, revision, marketing — then find tools that support that specific need. The best tool is the one that fits your process without taking over your creative decisions. My Resources page reflects what's working in my own writing and visibility practice, but your stack will be your own.

Question #6 - Can AI help me if I'm an already-published author and I just want more readers?

Yes — and this is where it's most immediately useful. If your books are already written, AI can help you sharpen your metadata, strengthen your positioning, and improve how discovery systems understand and recommend your work.

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A flexible daily writing system (15–90 minutes)

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My full AI-powered workflow (from planning to publishing)

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Join a growing community of writers using AI to streamline their process and focus on what matters most—telling a great story.