Unpublished novel's $2.4m deal pulled over AI concerns
Foreign rights agent Sandy Hodgman withdrew the Minotaur/Macmillan manuscript after publishers couldn't authenticate how the writing evolved.
An author's debut novel scored $2.4m in licensing deals after Minotaur/Macmillan acquired it, but they unraveled after "questions were raised" over exactly who, or what, wrote it. Deadline reports "there are apparently fingerprints, or something that raised the flags of AI censors," a description that illustrates how well the enterta…
