Alexandra Alter

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167 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 13 Feb

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Hard Fork · ‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing · 13 Feb 2026 podcast

And I said, do you still think of yourself as a writer?

And she said, I mean, not really.

I'm more of a director.

I'm a creator.

She feels like she comes up with the plots and the characters, but she doesn't necessarily think of herself as the quote unquote author anymore, which is a different kind of species of writer than we've seen before, I think.

And a lot of people are very uncomfortable with that.

So,

Well, within forced proximity, you have only one bed, which is a great sub-sub-genre.

Exactly.

I mean, I think that's a real point of contention when you're talking about AI and romance.

There are these tropes that readers love.

But I think even the writers I spoke to who use AI said AI is really bad at human emotion, at nuance, at kind of the slow burn.

And, you know, one person told me that she tried to get an AI program to write an enemies to lovers romance.

And within the first chapter, they went from being enemies to being lovers.

So that's obviously not what readers are looking for.

And I do think while there are these common tropes that readers love and you can see them all over Amazon, they're marketed that way.

Readers like to see how are you going to put a twist on this?

Like, I think you're a fan of heated rivalry, Casey.

There was a...

Big twist on the hockey romance, the way that Rachel Reed did it.

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