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Turn Readers into Superfans.

AuthorAI builds an AI version of you—trained on your book and your unique insights. Build a deeper connection with your readers and earn new revenue from work you’ve already done.

Built by an author and operator who believes your best ideas deserve more than a single read.

Imagine This on Your Book

One QR Code. Infinite Conversations.

A Novel
Where the sky remembers everything
Starfall
Elena Vance
Chat with this book
Scan to talk with Elena's AI — powered by AuthorAI
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Scan to Chat Zoomed view
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authorai.io/elena-vance/starfall

Readers scan the code and land directly in a conversation with Elena’s AuthorAI — trained on Starfall, speaking in her voice. No app. No account. Just a conversation.

Front Cover
Corner placement
Back Cover
With call-to-action
Inside Flap
Dedicated space
What Your Reader Sees

A Conversation That Feels Like You

Elena Vance's AuthorAI for Starfall
authorai.io/elena-vance/starfall
What’s the real story behind Chapter 12?
AuthorAI · Elena Vance
I almost cut that chapter entirely. My editor pushed back hard, but it was based on a real conversation I had with my sister the night before my wedding. I changed the names, obviously—but the argument? Word for word.
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Why AuthorAI

Your Book Is Published.
Now Make It Work for You.

Turn Every Book into Recurring Revenue

Your book earned once when it sold. Now it earns again — every month. Readers pay for deeper access to your ideas, your insights, and the stories behind the story. 100 subscribers × $4.99/mo = $500/month from work you’ve already done.

Build an Email List That Grows Itself

Every reader who chats with your AuthorAI becomes a contact you own — not a follower trapped on someone else’s platform. No extra content to create. No ads to run. Your book does the work, and your list grows while you sleep.

Engage Readers 24/7 — Right Where They Find You

A reader finishes your book at midnight and wants to go deeper — your AuthorAI is there. A book club discusses Chapter 4 on a Saturday — your AuthorAI joins the conversation. You’re not scaling yourself. You’re scaling your presence.

Works for every kind of author
Fiction & Worldbuilding

Readers explore your characters, debate plot twists, and uncover the lore you built but couldn’t fit on the page.

Nonfiction & Business

Readers apply your frameworks to their own situations and get personalized insight from your expertise.

Academic & Textbooks

Students engage with dense material on their own time — like office hours that never close.

Your content is never shared or used for training
Your voice, your style — not a generic chatbot
You own everything, always
How It Works

Launch Your AuthorAI in 3 Simple Steps

1

Upload Your Book

Drop in your PDF, EPUB, or manuscript file. Takes 30 seconds. Your content stays private and is never used for AI training.

2

Add Your Voice

Answer a few questions about the stories behind your work—the things only you know. This is what makes your AuthorAI sound like you, not a generic chatbot.

3

Share Your Link & Earn

Your AuthorAI goes live instantly. Add the link to your book, your bio, your website. Readers chat free, then subscribe for premium access.

How Authors Earn with AuthorAI

Turn Your Book into a Revenue Stream

AuthorAI lets you charge readers for premium access to your AI — your voice, your insights, your behind-the-scenes stories. Here's the math:

Readers pay
$4.99/mo

For premium access to your AuthorAI — Q&A with characters, writing advice, hidden meanings, and stories only you can tell.

You need just
100 fans

Not a massive audience. Just a hundred dedicated readers who love your work enough to go deeper. Most authors with an engaged readership already have them.

You earn
$500/mo

That's $6,000 a year from a single book. Your AuthorAI works around the clock — even while you write the next one.

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Own the Relationship with Your Readers.

Algorithms change. Platforms take their cut. AuthorAI gives you a direct line to your readers—no middleman taking a cut, no hoping the algorithm shows your post.

Your book. Your AuthorAI. Your readers. Your revenue.

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Why We’re Building This

From Our Founder

“The relationship between an author and a reader is one of the most extraordinary human connections there is. A book lets one person’s experience, imagination, and truth reach another person they may never meet.”

“For every reader who finishes your book, there are questions they’ll never get to ask. Curiosities about the story behind the story. A desire to hear your voice one more time after the last page.”

“No AI will ever have the experiences you’ve had, the creative instincts that shaped your work, or the vulnerability it took to share it. You are the irreplaceable ingredient.”

RR
Rich Rusnack
Founder, AuthorAI
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A Personal Note

Fellow Authors — I Could Use Your Help

I’m Rich. I’m writing my first book — Map to the Traps, a field guide of hard-won lessons I wish someone had handed me earlier — and the idea for AuthorAI came straight out of that process.

I believe the connection between an author and a reader is sacred. AuthorAI should deepen that connection, not cheapen it. But I can’t build this right without hearing from the people it’s meant to serve.

I’m looking for a handful of authors willing to share what they’d actually want from a tool like this. What would make it feel like a genuine extension of your voice? What would make it feel wrong? Where’s the line between useful and gimmicky?

If any of this resonates, drop me a note. And when we go live, I’d be glad to say thank you with three free months of access for one of your books.

RR
Rich Rusnack
Founder, AuthorAI · First-time author
rich@authorai.io

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Why We Built AuthorAI

A message from our founder

The relationship between an author and a reader is one of the most extraordinary human connections there is. A book lets one person’s experience, imagination, and truth reach another person they may never meet — across distances, across years, across lives that look nothing alike.

That connection is already powerful. We built AuthorAI to make it even more so.

For every reader who finishes your book, there are questions they’ll never get to ask. Curiosities about the story behind the story. Meanings they suspect are hiding between the lines. A desire to hear your voice one more time after the last page.

And for every author, there are stories you didn’t get to tell. The rainy Tuesday when you rewrote chapter seven for the fifteenth time and finally understood what your book was actually about. The character detail that didn’t make the final draft but shaped everything. The answer to the question readers always ask at events that you wish every reader could hear.

AuthorAI is how your voice — your real voice, shaped by your words, your insights, your lived experience — reaches every reader who wants to go deeper. At 2am when they finish the last page. In a classroom halfway around the world. At a book club in a living room you’ll never visit.

Only you can create this.

No AI will ever have the experiences you’ve had, the creative instincts that shaped your work, or the vulnerability it took to share it. You are the irreplaceable ingredient. AuthorAI is simply how that ingredient reaches more people, more deeply, more often.

We believe AI is at its best when it strengthens human connection — not when it replaces it. That’s the only kind of AI we’re interested in building. We hope you’ll be part of it.

RR
Rich Rusnack
Founder, AuthorAI