Michael Giannulis, founder of the AI book-writing service Dictate, has released Talk Your Book Into Existence, a field guide for consultants, advisors, coaches and other specialists who believe a book belongs on their shelf but have never had hundreds of hours to write one alone. The book is available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and Audible editions.
The guide's central argument is that, for a service professional, a book works less like a royalties product and more like a credentialing device. A prospect who finds an expert's book on Amazon, scans the cover and glances at the table of contents begins to see that expert as a category of one rather than one vendor among many. As the book puts it, "Expertise is what you know. Authority is what other people know about you."
The book then lays out a method it calls extraction, not generation. In generation, a user hands an AI a short prompt and receives text assembled from the internet. In extraction, the author does the talking, supplying the stories, frameworks and opinions built over a career, and the AI organizes and shapes those spoken words into prose. The guide argues that this keeps the intellectual substance of the book human.
Two practical frameworks anchor the method. The first, which the book calls Voice DNA, breaks an author's voice into six measurable parts: sentence architecture, vocabulary fingerprint, rhetorical patterns, transition habits, emotional register and signature phrases. The book suggests a simple test: read three pages of a draft aloud, then three everyday work emails, and check whether they sound like the same person wrote them. The second framework is a set of seven questions, beginning with the author's personal path and the industry wisdom the author believes is wrong, that give a book its structure before any writing begins.
The guide also asks authors to decide, before writing a word, which business purposes the book should serve, such as supporting sales conversations, opening speaking opportunities or forming the basis for courses and other programs, and to build the book around those goals.
Talk Your Book Into Existence is the method behind Dictate, which conducts guided voice interviews with experts and drafts their nonfiction books in their own voice for their review. A summary of the book and links to each edition are available on the Talk Your Book page at startdictate.com.
About Dictate
Dictate is an AI-powered book-writing service provided by Appendment LLC and based in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Through guided voice interviews and Voice DNA voice profiling, Dictate turns the spoken expertise of consultants, coaches, advisors and other professionals into nonfiction manuscripts written in each author's own voice. More information is available at startdictate.com.