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She Wrote 96 Books BEFORE AI. Now She Built an AI Publishing Machine | Coral Hart

She wrote 96 books before ever touching AI.

Now Coral Hart is building an AI-powered publishing ecosystem designed to help authors research what readers actually want, develop books faster, edit them, market them, and manage the business behind publishing.

On this episode of Diversified Game, Kellen Coleman sits down with Coral Hart, CEO and founder of the Coral Hart Group and Plot Pros, to talk about what AI is really doing to publishing.

Coral has spent 16 years working across traditional publishing, independent publishing, hybrid publishing, editing, ghostwriting, and bestselling authorship. She says she has also ghostwritten more than 200 novels.

We get into:

• Why Coral wrote 96 books BEFORE using AI
• Why AI does not automatically make someone a good writer
• How she uses live reader and market data to identify demand
• Tropesmith and tracking what readers are talking about across platforms
• Why she believes the first draft does not have to be perfect
• How AI has changed the game for neurodivergent creators
• Why publishing has historically been gatekept
• AI books versus “AI slop”
• Why readers, not technology, ultimately decide what survives
• Kindle Unlimited and how authors actually get paid
• Why one bestseller will probably NOT make you rich
• Why Coral did not break even until her seventh published book
• Building a publishing business instead of simply writing a book
• Creating systems that continue marketing and operating while you sleep
• Growing a business from South Africa while serving a global audience
• The real workload behind becoming a six-figure author
• Coral's experience researching the Cape Flats for 28 Boys
• Giving back through literacy, libraries, and author education
• What the future of books could look like as AI becomes normal

Coral makes one point especially clear: AI is leverage, but there is still no substitute for understanding your craft, your customer, and the business.

GUEST:

Coral Hart
https://coralhart.com/

Explore Coral's publishing tools, education, classes, and free resources directly through her website.

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