I don’t use AI on client manuscripts. Full stop.

Every developmental edit, line edit, and copy edit you receive from me is my own eyes reading, my own discernment, my own hand on the page. That’s not a marketing speech—it’s the actual product you expect and are paying for. If you wanted a pass through an LLM, you wouldn’t need an editor with a proprietary framework based on thirty years of horticulture reading your story as a living system. 

My own fiction is the same. I write it myself. 

What about the rest of my business? I use AI the way I’d use any other tool—for scheduling, admin, and marketing content. It doesn’t touch your manuscript, and it never will. 

What if you use AI in your own process? That’s your business, genuinely. I’m not going to ask, and I’m not going to hold it against you. What I will do is edit what you bring me the same way I edit everything else: rigorously. If a draft has gaps in logic, flattened voices, or the kind of inconsistencies that don’t happen when a writer is completely immersed in their world and characters, I’ll notice—and I’ll tell you. That’s true whether the draft came from eight revisions or thirteen prompts. My concern is the manuscript in front of me, not how it got there. 

If anything, that’s the real safeguard here. A story is a system—plot, character, world-building, theme: all of it interacting the way a garden’s elements do. AI can generate sentences. It can’t tend and nurture an ecosystem it doesn’t understand or feel every word of. That's still the part only you can do, and it’s still the part I’m here to help you strengthen.