One thing I’ve been trying to do with all my series recently is to offer recaps of the previous books. With the rise of e-books, services like Kindle Unlimited, and extremely long-running series, it’s become increasingly difficult for a reader to remember what happened in that one book they only vaguely remember having even read.

Amazon has done their best to solve this by providing AI-generated series recaps which I, as the author, have zero editorial control over and naturally don’t trust even...