At this time, my bluesky account is mostly me scouting NSFW artists. And I am quite happy with that 👏

Romance has an AI Problem What A Year of Data and Hundreds of Reddit Posts Reveal About Romance Readers and AI

Readers aren't wrong to be skeptical. But innocent authors are getting caught in the crossfire. We aren't out of the woods figuring out this new era, folks.

Full analysis with the data behind each point:
monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/romance-has-an-ai-problem

BE CLEAR ABOUT YOUR AI STANCE

Sign an open letter. Add a statement to your copyright page. You don't need a social media campaign or to make it your new identity. Just give readers something to point to.

DON'T OVER-POLISH

Readers have learned AI rarely makes typos but produces bland, emotionally flat writing. Too-perfect formatting + hollow beats is now a tell. This isn't very pleasant for people who are used to this style, but it might be an opportunity to lean into your unique voice.

KEEP DATED RECORDS

False accusations happen. The successful defenses involved ironclad proof (e.g., publication dates predating ChatGPT). Keep timestamped drafts. Show your process in some way.

CREATE A VERIFIABLE PAPER TRAIL

Readers check for signs of humanity: websites, interviews, signing appearances, and credited collaborators. Presence helps. Absence invites scrutiny.

KNOW THE LISTS EXIST

Readers maintain and share lists of authors caught using AI. On Reddit, these posts get hundreds of upvotes and persist for months.

CONSIDER YOUR RELEASE CADENCE

Rapid publication pace is now a red flag. If you have a legitimate backlog, consider spacing releases or being transparent about your process. Some of us are just fast at releasing 🤷‍♀️

CREDIT YOUR COVER ARTIST

Include the artist's name, handle, and/or studio in your book description and copyright page. The point is to signal a real human made it.

AVOID AI-LOOKING COVERS

Readers assume AI covers = AI writing. If your cover looks generated, they'll think the worst about everything else, too.

Romance has an AI Problem What A Year of Data and Hundreds of Reddit Posts Reveal About Romance Readers and AI

After analyzing 2025 data from Reddit Romance reader communities, I confirmed that readers are actively hunting for signs of AI use.

So, here's what authors need to know. (Even the ones who don’t use AI.)

monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/romance-has-an-ai-problem

Want to read my next book early? Grab this super steamy monster romance novella by becoming an ARC reader!

What a great headline

Now this is journalism.

Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.

Evergreen

The Greek Monster Gap: What Readers Want and Authors Aren't Writing Minotaurs have their queen. Centaurs have their questions. Satyrs have... almost nothing. Here's the data on where the opportunities are hiding.

I wrote a full market report that gets into all of it— competitive landscape, reader concerns, strategic recs for all 3 niches. I hope this will produce some useful insights!
Search "Monster Romance Reviews" on Substack or go directly here:
monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/the-greek-...

Meanwhile on Reddit, readers are asking for:
✅ "Cozy satyr romance"
✅ "Smutty Narnia vibes"
✅ "Mythically horny mischief makers"
And almost no one is writing it.

Minotaurs have their queen — Morning Glory Milking Farm has 22,000+ reviews.
Centaurs have L.V. Lane with 5,200.
Satyrs? The top book has 991.

HELP WANTED: Satyr Romance Authors 🐐
I analyzed 400 Amazon titles in Greek monster romance and found a massive gap.
(thread 🧵)

Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time Hacking the planet with florid verse.

“Adversarial Poetry” is my new favorite tech phrase.

www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Reverse-Engineering the Orc Romance Bestseller Formula Market research breakdown: the character types, tropes, and platform strategies that move orcs onto reader shelves

The orc romance market has clear winners: 5 authors control 53% of the top 100 Amazon bestsellers. But readers on Reddit, Bluesky, and YouTube are requesting something different.
I analyzed both to find the gaps👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/reverse-en...

If you see a significant amount of discussion in Romance forums about (for example) sapphic romance, then why don't we see that reflected in the bestsellers? I’d really like to appreciate the nature of the disconnect fully.

Today is one of those days when I am looking at a bunch of social media and Amazon data and trying to puzzle out the difference between what sells and what readers actually ask for.

Three Friends Change Lives—One Monster Dong At A Time How three artists quit their day jobs to make your favorite dragon dicks full-time

Thank you so much to @creaturefeature.bsky.social for letting me spotlight them and their adult toys business this week on my blog 🫶 Go read it here and check out their gorgeous stuff 👉👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/three-frie...

I'm trying to build some social listening Python scripts for romance trends in the speculative space (like monster romance...), and I really need Bluesky to stay a bastion of nsfw art and furries because this data is a potential gold mine for understanding what people want.

The AWS outage is a great reminder that Amazon’s power in the markets isn’t as a shopping platform (even though they can make or break individual small businesses at any time).
Their real revenue comes from hosting huge swathes of the Internet.

oglaf.com/cliffdiver/

Alphas, Betas, and Omegas, Oh My! A Critical Introduction to Fiction's Alternative Gender System

Sometimes you spend too long collecting stuff about omegaverse conventions for a werewolf deep dive piece and then—Whoops! You have a reference guide you can double as a blog post! 😅 #nerdproblems
👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/alphas-bet...

Dropped $50 to get the Witch’s Library. My digital library is about to get an insane injection of quality smut ❤️

‘I’d die screaming if a reader got a tattoo related to my work’
Alexis B Osbourne went from writing fanfiction to creating her popular Heatverse series, and she’s not done yet.

Read about her journey from almost quitting to Kickstarter success 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/this-autho...