joining me now is michael conley. you know him.ng authors involved in this suit. as you mentioned the brand-new book, resurrection walk, is out november 7th. i know many of you cannot wait for that to happen as well. michael, thank you for joining us today. you are one of several very prominent authors like george are martin, joining this lawsuit. tell me, why was it so important for you specifically to be able to be a part of this? >> i think it was because like these other authors you just mentioned, we were blindsided by this. we are all members of the authors guild. you know, they reached out to me and said, did you know that their system, their a.i. system, has basically digested all of your work? you know, our legal team did some research and prompting of the chat and so forth. this was offering to write sequels to books i hadn't written yet. i haven't written sequels it. this artificial intelligence was willing to do that for any taker. that, of course, it's pretty shocking because i have worked more than three decades on my