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Andrea Bartz: Get It Write · Aug 26, 2026

Announcing my next book, DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT!!!

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Andrea Bartz · Andrea Bartz: Get It Write

Hi friends,

Yesterday, Publishers Marketplace let the world in on the book I’ve been working on!

It was even the Deal of the Day! [tosses confetti] I’m SO excited to tell you about Delete Your Account, coming your way on May 11, 2027. You can shelve it as “Want to read” on Goodreads, and it’s probably available to preorder from your local indie bookstore, so check their website or stop by! (Not to mention—you can preorder it from Bookshop.org, et al.)

Want to know more about this story (which my very non-swearing mom read and described as “batshit”)? Please enjoy this catalog description:

When a struggling writer asks an AI chatbot to write her a novel on par with her favorite thriller, she finds herself trapped in the blood-soaked pages of the original—from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here.

All Sarah Remlinger wants is to be a writer, but so far, her fiction has gone over like Tesla’s Cybertruck—no one’s into it. She can barely contain her envy of Monica Moore, the author of Still Dead, a blockbuster thriller that broke all the rules by killing off the protagonist halfway through. Try as she might, she just can’t get her own ideas to live up to Moore’s work.

Then Sarah scores early access to WrAIterly, a mysterious new chatbot that promises to help her get the publishing career of her dreams. One night, in a moment of desperation, she asks it to write her a new manuscript in the vein of Still Dead. (It’s not like she’ll use whatever it generates.)

Her laptop flickers, the power goes out, and she thinks that’s the end of it . . . until she wakes up bound and bloody in the trunk of a moving car—a scene that’s terrifyingly familiar.

It’s the first page of the lauded thriller.

Did she trigger an alternate reality? Is she experiencing a new form of AI psychosis? All Sarah knows is that, chapter by chapter, she’s fighting for her life inside the dark, twisted novel she’s always loved—and if she can’t escape, in twenty-four short hours, she’ll meet the protagonist’s untimely end. To survive, Sarah must do what she’s never been able to do before, what drove her to try the AI chatbot in the first place: take control of the narrative and rewrite her own fate.

Delete Your Account is a smart and satirical speculative thriller about art, originality, and the battle to hold onto our humanity in the face of almighty tech companies racing to conquer our minds . . . and maybe even the world.

I feel like we authors always say versions of I had so much fun writing this book!, but…I actually did? I wrote it at a breakneck speed, beginning just after Thanksgiving 2025 (when I finally got the green light a year+ after I’d pitched the idea…) and finishing it in the first few days of 2026.

And I had some fugue-state writing days, including one where I banged out 10,000 words between sun-up and bedtime. (My hands were literally sore the next day.) This book is funny and weird and twisty and mind-bending, and it genuinely was a blast to write.

Oh, and I must add: Sarah is not dreaming and/or losing her mind. There is a reason for everything…I just had to figure it out!

I’ll share a cover reveal later this fall, and I’ll of course keep you posted on the unvarnished ins and outs of bringing this book into the world. Writing it was beyond cathartic, and I’m so excited for all the discussions it’ll spark!

Read the original on andibartz.substack.com

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