Reader beware
When choosing your reading material, please be mindful that the authors listed below may not represent an actual person or the books published under their name may in fact have been written by a contingent of people using dubious methods. Books "written" using generative A.I. are a newer addition to this list of questionable publications.
Choose to read at your own discretion.
Any Cobalt Fairy Book
Any Starfall Publications Book
Regal Quill Publications
Typewritink (this seems to be a new operation that publishes some of the “authors” on this list)
Abby Ayles
Abigail Agar
Adamina Young
Alice Kirks
Alisa Adams
Amanda Stones
Ann Marie Scott
Aria Norton
Aurora Hanson
Ava MacAdams
Ava Winters
Barbara Bard
Beatrice Hill
Bridget Barton
Carol Colyer
Cassidy Hanton
Clarice Mayfield
Chloe Carley
Edith Byrd
Eleanor Keating
Eleanor Myers has since removed by Amazon for continuously contravening her TOS
Ella Edon
Eloise Madigan
Ember Pierce
Emily Barnet (this “author” left an AI prompt in one of her book descriptions)
Emily Honeyfield
Emma Linfield
Etta Foster
Evelyn Boyett
Fanny Finch
Fay Walsh
Fiona Faris
Florence Linnington
Freya Atwood
Grace Clemens
Hanna Hamilton
Hanna Harding has since removed by Amazon for continuously contravening her TOS
Harriet Caves
Hazel Linwood
Hedley J Huntt
Henrietta Harding
Julia Thorne
Kenna Kendrick
Leah Conolly
Lilah Rivers
Lisa Campell
Lorelei Brogan
Lorena Owen
Lucinda Nelson
Lucy Langdon
Lydia Kendall
Maddie Mackenna
Martha Barwood
Melynda Carlyle
Olivia Bennet
Patricia Haverton
Rita Wethers
Roselyn Francis
Sally Forbes
Scarlett Osborne
Shona Thompson
Sophia Fraser
Tiffany Baton
Violet Hamers
Vivian Brighton
Newer ones
Leaye Beason
Dorothy Sheldon (not to be confused with Deborah Sheldon who writes fantasy, science fiction adventure)
Maya Ross
Sally Vixen
Mayel Bardot
Amanda Seabrook
Daphne Byrne
Claire Devon
Tessa Bookman
The next ones were reported to me by readers:
Alianna Brookes (new one from Cobalt Fairy)
Victoria Maze
Loretta Levine (they’re getting sneakier folks. The author pic for this one is AI generated)
Mia Dunham (A new one from Regal Quill and another with an AI generated author pic)
Austin Grayson (another with an AI generated author pic through Regal Quill)
Meghan Sloan (same as above)