A new analytics tool available for authors can be previewed
at booksai. Billed as an artificial intelligence which reads “between the lines”
of your manuscript, booksai’s analytics tool scans your manuscript and attempts
to fathom out the author's style, tone,
mood, attitudes, emotions, and ulterior motives. It then generates a report
comparing your story to other authors and giving you a breakdown of how much
you compare to the top several similar writers as well as utilizing the fluctuations
in your style over the course of the story to determine which genre your style
most resembles. In my particular example, I may have written a hardboiled
detective story, but according to booksai, it reads like a sci-fi novel - stylistically
speaking.
In addition to author comparisons, booksai also
compared my book, Extreme Unction, to specific books by Sue Grafton and Agatha Christie, which is more helpful
than what I got from Helix, who compared my writing to Parnell Hall. I can
market my story to fans of Sue Grafton and Agatha Christie. Parnell Hall, not
so much. The fan bases would be too distinct.
I also had one of my
novellas analyzed by booksai. It’s a little more edgy than my novel, and is
more of a noire story than a detective genre tale. It has no denouement, the
criminals do not receive justice at the conclusion, and it’s quite a bit
darker. That story was compared to Judy Blume, and was stylistically similar to
books in the YA category. In addition to Judy Blume, the book was also compared
to books by Laurell K. Hamilton in style.
Unfortunately, as
with the Helix review, it is entirely up to me to utilize the info to market my
stories. None of the information supplied to the user has any effect on the
database, and all of the books in the database are from traditional publishing
venues. However, unlike Helix Review, the booksai analytical tool is 100% free
to use by budding writers.
All things
considered, though, I’d say it’s a more useful tool than Helix Review. At least
until Helix works out the bugs I described in my previous post.
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