After an AI review carried out by Kvartal, Camilla Läckberg is accused of having hired ghostwriters.
And another Swedish author is singled out as the ghostwriter.
Now Läckberg strikes back.
“It’s not a secret by any means,” she explains in an Instagram post.
After Quarter done a review with the help of AI, among others Camilla Läckberg is accused of having hired ghostwriters in her books and Pascal Engman is singled out as one of the ghostwriters.
With the help of an AI tool, Kvartal has examined the language in Camilla Läckberg’s books, which shows that the books in the Fjällbacka series have the same characteristic style, but that books that do not belong to the series have a different one. It concerns her short novels “Women without Mercy” and “Going to Jail” and the novels “A Cage of Gold” and “Wings of Silver”, and after reviewing books by Pascal Engman it is concluded that he is the most likely author of “Women without mercy”.
But she now denies that Camilla Läckberg allegedly used ghostwriters.
Camilla Läckberg responds to the accusations
Camilla Läckberg refers TV4 to her posts on Instagramin which she explains that Pascal Engman, as an editor, helped her get the language different, to deliberately differentiate the novels from her books in the Fjällbacka series.
“Changing the way you write is difficult. Very difficult. And I knew I needed to write Faye in a different way than my detective stories. Straighter, faster driven, more stripped down. So I enlisted the help of my friend and colleague Pascal as an editor because he is among the best I know at fast, action-driven stylistics,” writes Camilla and explains that she also helped Pascal with his texts.
She points out that it is nothing new for authors to take help from editors.
“They are the ones who make us “kill our darlings”, who make us bloom to our full potential. I have many times openly and publicly praised Pascal for helping me write in a way that was new to me. It’s not a secret by any means,” she continues.
Even Pascal Engman denies the accusations.
“Everyone who has published a book knows that it is an editor’s job to work with the author’s text in different ways. For the sake of clarity, I firmly deny what you are insinuating,” writes Pascal in an email to Kvartal.