Curiosity Unhinged
Lorraine JohnstonCuriosity Unhinged is for For writers who want to use AI in their systems. Essays, experiments, and practical notes on AI visibility, writing workflows, and career sustainability. Part of AI Magic for Authors at aimagicforauthors.com
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Why Book Marketing May Be Your Best AI Visibility Strategy
When I started testing whether AI could find and recommend my book, I assumed I would eventually end up with a list of things authors needed to do specifically for AI.
Some of that has happened. There are certainly ways to make information...
An AI Recommendation Isn’t the Finish Line
There is a particular thrill in asking an AI for a book recommendation and seeing your own title appear.
I know because it has happened to me.
After spending months working on AI visibility, I started testing what different systems knew a...
How Does AI Decide Which Book to Recommend?
In the last post, I made the distinction between a book being Findable and being Selectable.
Findable means AI can identify the book and understand enough about it to know what it is. Selectable is harder. It means the system has enough us...
AI Knowing Your Book Exists Isn’t Enough
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past year asking a fairly simple question about my books: can AI find them?
Can it identify the title and author correctly? Does it know what genre the book belongs to? Can it work out what the story is ab...
AI Recommended My Book. Then It Stopped.
Where’s my book?
A week after The Call to Witchery launched, I asked Google AI Mode to recommend books for a particular kind of reader.
It gave me five. The Call to Witchery was one of them.
I was thrilled. I’m a debut fiction author and...
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I'm a fantasy-fiction author and recovering IT nerd. I help established authors become AI-visible—without compromising voice, craft, or creative control. Expect systems talk, story talk, and the occasional witchy metaphor.
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