The Five-Minute Audit That Tells You If Your Book Is Invisible to AI
Last week I did something I probably should have done two years ago: I asked AI whether my novel Party Girl is one of the best funny novels about addiction and recovery. One AI said yes and listed me alongside Marian Keyes and Carrie Fisher, which was the closest thing to a dream I have ever had as an author. Another AI did not know I existed. (Rejection wasn’t new; rejection by a robot was.)
This is a solo episode and one could call it my confession. For 20 years. the question was: does my book come up on Google? Then it was: does it come up on Amazon?
Now the question is: when a prospect asks ChatGPT for the best books in your category, does your name come out of its mouth? Your buyers are asking right now.
Most authors have never once checked what AI says about them.
I spent the week figuring out why one AI knew my book and one didn’t, how these systems actually decide what to recommend and what I am doing this week, on the record, to fix the gap. Including one move on Amazon KDP I am pretty sure I am not supposed to be able to make.
In this episode:
- The five-minute audit that tells you whether your book is invisible to AI (free, right now, from your phone)
- The “vocabulary trap” that makes most expert books unfindable—and what to put in your bio instead
- Why AI doesn’t actually recommend the best books and what it recommends instead
- The exact question to ask AI about your own book that, in my case, turned into a free publicity consultation
- The change I made to my Amazon listing this week that I am pretty sure Amazon doesn’t want you to know is possible (and which may not be possible actually by the time you read/hear this)
- Why doing this work feels embarrassing—and the reason I would tell you to do it anyway
