Hachette Book Group has canceled the planned US publication of horror novel SHY GIRL by Mia Ballard. The New York Times reported that they approached the publisher with “evidence” that the novel was largely written using AI, and thereafter the title was removed from bookselling sites. But HBG says that Orbit “decided to cancel the book…prior to article.” The novel, which was published by Hachette UK in the fall of 2025, was previously self-published and follows “a desperate young woman who is held hostage by a man she met online and forced to live as his pet.” It was due […]
