Clear publishing advice, book marketing insights and stories from Zambia’s literary community.
AI can support a writer's planning and revision, but it cannot take responsibility for a book. Sotrane Publishers' position on human voice, evidence, access, privacy and honest disclosure.
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Polished pages can still feel interchangeable. How to find repeated lessons, empty claims, flattened dialogue, decorative local detail and false certainty in a draft, and how to recover the author's real material.
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AI can organise notes and expose gaps in a draft, but it can also flatten a writer's voice and invent convincing facts. Which jobs to give it, which to keep and how to check an AI-assisted chapter before calling it finished.
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A title can mean a great deal to its author and very little to a new reader. How to check its promise, subtitle, local-language wording and existing uses, then agree one final version before the cover goes into design.
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