Hi, I’m Stacey ✨
This is where I write — honestly, opinionatedly, in plain English — about authorship, publishing operations, author services, and what AI in the loop actually looks like. No tech-bro hype. No doomer panic.
The Premise
I write across nine fiction pen names, in multiple genre lanes, with AI tools woven into almost every part of my day. I am also a woman in pink lipstick who reads romance novels, who likes a good cocktail and a long walk, and who is, for the record, having a great time.
I made this site because the conversation about AI in publishing has been dominated by two camps: people who think it’s the end of writing, and people who think it’s the end of having to think. Neither of those is true. The truth is more interesting, more fun, and a lot more useful.
Pull up a chair. The kettle’s on. Or the espresso machine. Or the wine, depending on the hour.
Latest from the blog
September 2026
A portable knowledge system that helps your AI understand the work before it starts doing the work. An FFA Spark gives your AI focused knowledge, workflows, decision rules, and quality standards for an author-specific task—without replacing your judgment or your voice.
Read post →September 2026
A chat window, a coding agent, somebody else’s app, an editor extension, software I built myself. I have written books in all five — here is what each one is genuinely good at, what it quietly costs, and how to tell which one your work actually needs.
Read post →September 2026
Hello. I’m Stacey — novelist, co-founder of the Future Fiction Academy, and full-time AI adventurer. Here is who is writing this blog, what I actually believe about AI and publishing, and what I’m promising to put on this page.
Read post →The Book
A working author’s field guide to building a real publishing business with AI in the loop — without losing the part of the work that matters.
There is a real publishing business to be built with AI in the loop, and most of what you’ll read about it online is either tech-bro hype or doomer panic. This is neither. This is the field guide a working author — me — wrote for the person she was eighteen months ago.
Inside: how I actually use AI in my day, where it helps, where it hurts, the workflows I’ve built across nine fiction pen names and multiple genre lanes, the editorial guardrails that keep the work mine, and the small, repeatable habits that let me ship more books without giving up the part of writing I love.
“AI didn’t replace the writer. It replaced the assistant I couldn’t afford.”
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A weekly-ish note about what I’m working on, what I’m using, what I’m learning, and what I’m drinking. Plus first looks at new posts and practical resources from the desk.
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