Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

• Hugh Howey points out how thanks to AI we are leaving the era where writing a book was expensive but publishing it was not. (Actually, writing the book is still going to be expensive, but now you can use AI to cheaply produce a book you did not write.)
• A $2 million book deal fell through because of accusations of AI use.
• Marlee Baldridge explains how authors can fact check the science in their stories.
• Here are five self-publishing mistakes that cost authors dearly.
• Nathan Bransford reminds us that authors need to know their book’s genre.
• While we are on the topic, I think Authors should also know the difference between the genre of a book’s setting and the genre of its story. (I have an unpublished blog post about this.) For example, the first Terminator movie is a horror story in an SF setting. Or, to give you another example, the author Lois McMaster Bujold uses a space opera setting to write romance, mystery, and space opera novels.