AI novel studios enable romance authors to generate and publish

Complete AI writing-to-publishing pipeline now available; authors skip traditional gatekeepers entirely.

This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Thu, Aug 13 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 62/100 (Tailwinds building).

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