Minotaur/Macmillan pulled the unpublished crime novel Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body in August 2026 after its reported $2.4 million deal collapsed over unverified suspicions the manuscript was written with AI assistance — with no proof produced by anyone involved, and no AI detection tool used that could confirm or deny the accusation. The collapse follows Hachette pulling Mia Ballard’s Shy Girl and Apex Magazine yanking a published story, establishing a pattern in which the mere accusation of AI use is enough to destroy a deal or career, with authors required to prove a negative against unreliable detection tools and no standard of evidence anyone has defined.
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