I canceled my book deal

Posted by azhenley 12/31/2025

I canceled my book deal(austinhenley.com)

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mrlonglong 12/31/2025|

Good for you.

egorfine 12/31/2025||

> "All of our future books will involve AI."

What an incredible take. It is both so wrong on so many levels and also technically correct, akin to saying "All of our future books will involve spellchecker."

I hate it.

websiteapi 12/31/2025||

"All of our future books will involve AI."

SoftTalker 12/31/2025|

In the era of AI, who is going to buy books?

koalacola 12/31/2025||

AI slop

threethirtytwo 12/31/2025||

I don’t see the publisher doing anything wrong.

You “froze” the contract instead of telling them you intended to stop all together and it also seems like you didn’t return their advance.

azhenley 12/31/2025||

You are reading a lot of things that I didn't say.

The publisher didn't do anything "wrong". It was their suggestion to freeze it instead of cancel immediately. I didn't intend on giving up on the book even then. I didn't return the advance because I never received the advance.

threethirtytwo 12/31/2025|||

ah my mistake then. Looks like either party didn't do anything wrong.

smlavine 12/31/2025||

It says the first half of the advance would be paid on approval of the first third of the book. It also says that the first third of the book was never submitted. So I don't think the advance was ever paid out.

adriatp 12/31/2025||

paid stuff shouldnt be here, I thought this site as about sharing knowledge not selling it

banbangtuth 12/31/2025|

Wow this is the first time I encountered this blog! Subscribed!