AI Tools for Book Marketing: What Actually Helps (and What Hurts) | Let's Talk About It

AI is a tool, not a marketing strategy. This session separates the judgment work only you can do (knowing your readers, your voice, your relationships) from the drafting and volume work where AI can save you real time. In this session: • The sweet-spot tasks for AI, and why confident hallucinations put reader trust at risk • Trying free chatbots before paying for subscription "wrappers" • A four-part prompt structure: audience, constraint, prohibition, quantity • Subject lines, outlines and blurbs as high-value uses • Repurposing your own writing with "do not add anything I did not say" • How to spot AI marketing tells, and train AI on your voice with samples • The FTC rules on AI-generated reviews, and KDP's AI-generated vs. AI-assisted disclosure Chapters: 00:00 Set Expectations 00:39 AI Tool Not Strategy 01:12 Sweet Spot Tasks 02:20 Hallucinations and Trust 03:20 Free Tools and Pricing 04:18 Avoid Paid AI Traps 05:27 Subject Line Prompts 06:25 Repurpose Your Words 07:22 Outlines and Blurbs 08:29 Spot AI Marketing Tells 09:32 Train Voice with Samples 10:28 Disclosure and Legal Lines 12:08 Two Implementation Tracks 12:47 Handouts and Prompt Library 13:35 Key Takeaways and Wrap Let's Talk About It is the recorded monthly session presented by Jolene MacFadden of Southern Dragon Publishing. Watch the full series in the Let's Talk About It playlist. Free handouts for this session: https://southerndragonpublishing.com/... Get the Southern Dragon Publishing newsletter: southerndragonpublishing.com/newsletter Book a one-hour Author Strategy Session: https://southerndragonpublishing.com/... #AIForAuthors #BookMarketing #IndieAuthor