IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. GOMBOC-WORDS. AUTHOR. SUSAN.
I build working systems with AI, then write and speak about what actually happens when you do.
NovGen · a fiction production pipeline in Make.com
The current build
NovGen is an AI-assisted fiction production pipeline built in Make.com. It takes a romance novella from premise to a 20,000-word first draft in about ten minutes: five orchestrated scenarios, multiple AI models, datastores as connective tissue, and a human conductor.
Three books are live on Amazon. Each one gets a human edit before publication, and every edit becomes an upstream improvement to the pipeline. The next layer, automated validation and editing, is in progress.
The thinking
Building NovGen raised better questions than it answered. What is creativity in the age of AI? When a book comes out of a pipeline I designed and shaped at every stage, am I its creator, its collaborator, or something we don't have a word for yet?
I write about these questions from the workshop floor. My opinions have production logs.
The résumé underneath
I started as a coder in the COBOL era, then spent a decade in public safety software as a professional services manager: multi-million-dollar implementations, and a blended team of implementers and trainers whose jobs I could do, and did, myself, teaching complex software in classrooms and at conference stages. Then a second career as an author, teaching writing craft and author marketing the same way.
The through-line: I take complicated systems, software, stories, or both at once, and make them make sense to the people who need to use them.
Speaking & contact
Available for talks, panels, and collaborations on AI, automation, and creative production.
skelly@gombocwords.com