I’m planning to open-source all my text and image generation skills that I’ve been working on, and was trying to do some checking around of others who have released similar things. ChatGPT gave me this provisional list below. I’m sure there are others:

  • ShonP/kdp-book — A comprehensive pipeline that takes a book from initial concept through outlining, manuscript generation, editing, illustrations, cover design, EPUB/PDF production, metadata, and KDP preparation.
  • alexeygrigorev/ai-book-generator — An automated publishing system that generates book content, EPUB and KDP-ready files, covers, and even text-to-speech audiobooks.
  • wesleyscholl/book-generator — A book-production workflow covering topic selection, outlining, chapter generation and expansion, editing, quality checks, front/back matter, covers, and multiple ebook formats.
  • jirbis/ai-book-pipeline — A multi-agent approach where specialized Researcher, Writer, Editor, Critic, Proofreader, and Publisher agents collaborate on producing a book.
  • epicsagas/Velith — A Claude Code workflow for taking books through ideation, outlining, drafting, editing, fact-checking, consistency review, reader evaluation, and final EPUB/PDF production.
  • hottweelz/writing-template-for-ai — A structured AI writing workflow that maintains a persistent book blueprint while drafting and editing chapters, then assembles the manuscript into EPUB and PDF with Pandoc.
  • SimonWaldherr/AI-Book-Generator — A browser-based, one-click-style generator that creates a book concept, outline, chapters, cover, and finished files using models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google.

What’s interesting to me here is actually how *conventional* the majority of the projects above seem to me to be. For the most part, they are just trying to do things like use multiple agents to emulate different conventional publishing roles (writer, editor, designer, etc.), and their objectives are to more or less write “competent” genre fiction of approximately novel length.

That is not at all the approach I’m using for my books. I’m looking more for an anti-formula, where the contents of each book are decidedly different from the rest because of the tools involved, the approaches used, the problems encountered, the choices made, etc. Which is why I don’t mind giving away with a certain level of completeness records around what I’ve done and how I’ve done it. Because I’m not going to keep doing it any one specific way.

I don’t doubt some of the tools linked above can give you a completed book product that you could easily sell on Amazon (I don’t sell anything on there personally). And I would also not be surprised if many people who buy and read books made by systems like that end up enjoying them. Some of my own books, in my opinion, are really fun to read (some are mildly torturous, but that can also be fun in controlled doses). And that’s why I share them.

Anywya, off to prepare my own pipeline and skills to publish!