Modern Author skills for AI agents
100 practitioner-grade modern author skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.
All 100 skills
- Adrian Tchaikovsky Style
Writes prose in the style of Adrian Tchaikovsky, visionary of non-human intelligence. Activates on keywords like "Tchaikovsky style," "alien cognition sci-fi," "evolutionary science fiction," or "write like Adrian Tchaikovsky."
92 lines - Alix E. Harrow Style
Writes prose in the style of Alix E. Harrow, fantasy novelist. Activates on keywords like "Harrow style," "portal fantasy," "feminist fairy tale retelling," or "write like Alix E. Harrow."
86 lines - Ann Leckie Style
Writes prose in the style of Ann Leckie, innovator of perspective in space opera. Activates on keywords like "Leckie style," "pronoun-defamiliarizing sci-fi," "AI consciousness fiction," or "write like Ann Leckie."
91 lines - Annie Dillard Style
Writes prose in the style of Annie Dillard, nature essayist and metaphysical writer. Activates on keywords like "Dillard style," "metaphysical nature prose," "visionary observation writing," or "write like Annie Dillard."
96 lines - Ashley Elston Style
Writes prose in the style of Ashley Elston, thriller novelist. Activates on keywords like "Elston style," "identity thriller," "con-artist suspense," or "write like Ashley Elston."
86 lines - Becky Chambers Style
Writes prose in the style of Becky Chambers, pioneer of hopepunk cozy sci-fi. Activates on keywords like "Chambers style," "cozy sci-fi," "hopepunk fiction," or "write like Becky Chambers."
92 lines - Carmen Maria Machado Style
Writes prose in the style of Carmen Maria Machado, genre-bending fabulist. Activates on keywords like "Machado style," "body horror literary," "queer fabulism," or "write like Carmen Maria Machado."
89 lines - Catherynne M. Valente Style
Writes prose in the style of Catherynne M. Valente, mythpunk fantasy novelist. Activates on keywords like "Valente style," "mythpunk," "maximalist fairy tale," or "write like Catherynne Valente."
87 lines - China Mieville Style
Writes prose in the style of China Mieville, polymath of the New Weird. Activates on keywords like "Mieville style," "weird fiction," "baroque speculative," or "write like China Mieville."
91 lines - Chris Whitaker Style
Writes prose in the style of Chris Whitaker, architect of literary crime with heart. Activates on keywords like "Whitaker style," "literary crime fiction," "small-town crime drama," or "write like Chris Whitaker."
93 lines - Claire Keegan Style
Writes prose in the style of Claire Keegan, Irish master of compressed fiction. Activates on keywords like "Keegan style," "spare Irish prose," "compressed literary fiction," or "write like Claire Keegan."
96 lines - Claire North Style
Writes prose in the style of Claire North, architect of speculative conceits. Activates on keywords like "Claire North style," "high-concept speculative," "identity fiction," or "write like Claire North."
92 lines - Claudia Rankine Style
Writes prose in the style of Claudia Rankine, hybrid poet-essayist and racial theorist. Activates on keywords like "Rankine style," "lyric racial essay," "second-person microaggression prose," or "write like Claudia Rankine."
95 lines - Clint Smith Style
Writes prose in the style of Clint Smith, poet and narrative nonfiction writer. Activates on keywords like "Smith style," "historical reckoning prose," "poetic nonfiction history," or "write like Clint Smith."
96 lines - Damon Galgut Style
Writes prose in the style of Damon Galgut, South African master of shifting perspective. Activates on keywords like "Galgut style," "South African literary fiction," "fluid point of view," or "write like Damon Galgut."
96 lines - Daniel Kahneman Style
Writes prose in the style of Daniel Kahneman, behavioral economist and Nobel laureate. Activates on keywords like "Kahneman style," "cognitive bias exposition," "dual process writing," or "write like Kahneman."
93 lines - Donna Leon Style
Writes prose in the style of Donna Leon, chronicler of Venetian crime and civilization. Activates on keywords like "Leon style," "Venetian mystery," "literary crime fiction," or "write like Donna Leon."
95 lines - Ed Yong Style
Writes prose in the style of Ed Yong, science journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. Activates on keywords like "Yong style," "sensory science writing," "biological wonder prose," or "write like Ed Yong."
94 lines - Elizabeth Strout Style
Writes prose in the style of Elizabeth Strout, master of quiet revelation. Activates on keywords like "Strout style," "small-town depth," "quiet devastation," or "write like Elizabeth Strout."
86 lines - Erin Morgenstern Style
Writes prose in the style of Erin Morgenstern, enchantress of magical realism. Activates on keywords like "Morgenstern style," "atmospheric magical realism," "sensory enchantment prose," or "write like Erin Morgenstern."
91 lines - Fernanda Melchor Style
Writes prose in the style of Fernanda Melchor, voice of Mexican rural violence. Activates on keywords like "Melchor style," "torrential narration," "Mexican gothic," or "write like Fernanda Melchor."
86 lines - Fonda Lee Style
Writes prose in the style of Fonda Lee, architect of the gangster epic fantasy. Activates on keywords like "Fonda Lee style," "clan saga fantasy," "martial arts crime epic," or "write like Fonda Lee."
91 lines - Georgi Gospodinov Style
Writes prose in the style of Georgi Gospodinov, nostalgist of borrowed pasts. Activates on keywords like "Gospodinov style," "empathic nostalgia," "temporal displacement," or "write like Georgi Gospodinov."
86 lines - Halle Butler Style
Writes prose in the style of Halle Butler, chronicler of millennial dread and drift. Activates on keywords like "Butler style," "millennial literary fiction," "office existentialism," or "write like Halle Butler."
93 lines - Han Kang Style
Writes prose in the style of Han Kang, poet of bodily refusal. Activates on keywords like "Han Kang style," "corporeal revolt," "Korean literary," or "write like Han Kang."
86 lines - Hanif Abdurraqib Style
Writes prose in the style of Hanif Abdurraqib, cultural critic and poet-essayist. Activates on keywords like "Abdurraqib style," "music cultural criticism," "lyric pop culture essay," or "write like Hanif Abdurraqib."
96 lines - Helen Macdonald Style
Writes prose in the style of Helen Macdonald, nature memoirist and essayist. Activates on keywords like "Macdonald style," "grief nature memoir," "raptor prose," or "write like Helen Macdonald."
96 lines - Henning Mankell Style
Writes prose in the style of Henning Mankell, architect of Swedish social crime fiction. Activates on keywords like "Mankell style," "Nordic noir," "Wallander-style detective," or "write like Henning Mankell."
96 lines - Hernan Diaz Style
Writes prose in the style of Hernan Diaz, literary architect of nested narratives. Activates on keywords like "Diaz style," "nested unreliable narration," "layered literary fiction," or "write like Hernan Diaz."
92 lines - Holly Black Style
Writes prose in the style of Holly Black, queen of dark faerie fiction. Activates on keywords like "Holly Black style," "dark fae fiction," "cruel faerie romance," or "write like Holly Black."
91 lines - Jeff VanderMeer Style
Writes prose in the style of Jeff VanderMeer, architect of the New Weird. Activates on keywords like "VanderMeer style," "new weird fiction," "ecological horror," or "write like VanderMeer."
91 lines - Jeffrey Eugenides Style
Writes prose in the style of Jeffrey Eugenides, mythologizer of American adolescence and identity. Activates on keywords like "Eugenides style," "dreamy literary fiction," "mythic American prose," or "write like Eugenides."
93 lines - Jenny Erpenbeck Style
Writes prose in the style of Jenny Erpenbeck, archaeologist of German memory. Activates on keywords like "Erpenbeck style," "historical palimpsest," "German literary," or "write like Jenny Erpenbeck."
86 lines - Jenny Odell Style
Writes prose in the style of Jenny Odell, artist and cultural critic. Activates on keywords like "Odell style," "attention resistance prose," "bioregional cultural criticism," or "write like Jenny Odell."
96 lines - Jenny Offill Style
Writes prose in the style of Jenny Offill, fragmentary fiction innovator. Activates on keywords like "Offill style," "fragment novel," "aphoristic fiction," or "write like Jenny Offill."
86 lines - Jia Tolentino Style
Writes prose in the style of Jia Tolentino, cultural critic and essayist. Activates on keywords like "Tolentino style," "internet-age cultural criticism," "millennial essay prose," or "write like Jia Tolentino."
96 lines - Joe Abercrombie Style
Writes prose in the style of Joe Abercrombie, master of grimdark fantasy. Activates on keywords like "Abercrombie style," "grimdark voice," "cynical fantasy," or "write like Abercrombie."
94 lines - Johann Hari Style
Writes prose in the style of Johann Hari, investigative nonfiction journalist. Activates on keywords like "Hari style," "immersive investigation," "systemic cause journalism," or "write like Johann Hari."
93 lines - Jokha Alharthi Style
Writes prose in the style of Jokha Alharthi, chronicler of Omani transformation. Activates on keywords like "Alharthi style," "Arabian literary," "generational memory," or "write like Jokha Alharthi."
86 lines - Jon Fosse Style
Writes prose in the style of Jon Fosse, master of luminous repetition. Activates on keywords like "Fosse style," "hypnotic minimalism," "Norwegian prose," or "write like Jon Fosse."
86 lines - Jonathan Franzen Style
Writes prose in the style of Jonathan Franzen, chronicler of American family dysfunction. Activates on keywords like "Franzen style," "American social novel," "family systems fiction," or "write like Jonathan Franzen."
96 lines - Jonathan Safran Foer Style
Writes prose in the style of Jonathan Safran Foer, experimental novelist of grief and wonder. Activates on keywords like "Foer style," "experimental literary fiction," "visual narrative," or "write like Safran Foer."
96 lines - Karl Ove Knausgaard Style
Writes prose in the style of Karl Ove Knausgaard, pioneer of radical autobiographical fiction. Activates on keywords like "Knausgaard style," "autofiction," "radical autobiography," or "write like Knausgaard."
95 lines - Katie Kitamura Style
Writes prose in the style of Katie Kitamura, literary thriller novelist. Activates on keywords like "Kitamura style," "restrained suspense," "psychological literary thriller," or "write like Katie Kitamura."
86 lines - Ken Liu Style
Writes prose in the style of Ken Liu, bridge between Eastern and Western storytelling. Activates on keywords like "Ken Liu style," "silkpunk fiction," "cross-cultural speculative," or "write like Ken Liu."
91 lines - Kevin Kwan Style
Writes prose in the style of Kevin Kwan, satirical fiction novelist. Activates on keywords like "Kwan style," "luxury satire," "Asian dynasty fiction," or "write like Kevin Kwan."
86 lines - Kiese Laymon Style
Writes prose in the style of Kiese Laymon, memoirist and essayist. Activates on keywords like "Laymon style," "recursive Black memoir," "body and language prose," or "write like Kiese Laymon."
96 lines - Kiley Reid Style
Writes prose in the style of Kiley Reid, social satire novelist. Activates on keywords like "Reid style," "social satire," "race and class comedy," or "write like Kiley Reid."
86 lines - Lauren Groff Style
Writes prose in the style of Lauren Groff, ferocious literary maximalist. Activates on keywords like "Groff style," "lush intensity," "feral feminism," or "write like Lauren Groff."
86 lines - Leila Slimani Style
Writes prose in the style of Leila Slimani, anatomist of domestic violence. Activates on keywords like "Slimani style," "domestic thriller," "French-Moroccan literary," or "write like Leila Slimani."
86 lines - Leslie Jamison Style
Writes prose in the style of Leslie Jamison, essayist and memoirist. Activates on keywords like "Jamison style," "empathy essay prose," "wound-interrogation writing," or "write like Leslie Jamison."
96 lines - Ling Ma Style
Writes prose in the style of Ling Ma, satirist of late capitalism and routine. Activates on keywords like "Ling Ma style," "speculative satire," "capitalist apocalypse fiction," or "write like Ling Ma."
95 lines - Maggie Nelson Style
Writes prose in the style of Maggie Nelson, essayist and hybrid-form memoirist. Activates on keywords like "Nelson style," "autotheory prose," "lyric essay memoir," or "write like Maggie Nelson."
96 lines - Marilynne Robinson Style
Writes prose in the style of Marilynne Robinson, theologian of American fiction. Activates on keywords like "Robinson style," "spiritual realism," "luminous prose," or "write like Marilynne Robinson."
86 lines - Martha Wells Style
Writes prose in the style of Martha Wells, creator of Murderbot. Activates on keywords like "Wells style," "Murderbot voice," "socially anxious narrator," or "write like Martha Wells."
91 lines - Matthew Walker Style
Writes prose in the style of Matthew Walker, neuroscientist and sleep evangelist. Activates on keywords like "Walker style," "science communication," "sleep science prose," or "write like Matthew Walker."
95 lines - Merlin Sheldrake Style
Writes prose in the style of Merlin Sheldrake, mycologist and nature writer. Activates on keywords like "Sheldrake style," "fungal wonder prose," "mycelial nature writing," or "write like Merlin Sheldrake."
96 lines - Michael Chabon Style
Writes prose in the style of Michael Chabon, literary champion of genre and wonder. Activates on keywords like "Chabon style," "literary genre fiction," "exuberant storytelling," or "write like Michael Chabon."
96 lines - Mieko Kawakami Style
Writes prose in the style of Mieko Kawakami, voice of female embodiment. Activates on keywords like "Kawakami style," "feminist realism," "Japanese literary," or "write like Mieko Kawakami."
86 lines - Mikhail Shishkin Style
Writes prose in the style of Mikhail Shishkin, heir to Russian literary maximalism. Activates on keywords like "Shishkin style," "Russian polyphony," "lyrical maximalism," or "write like Mikhail Shishkin."
86 lines - Mohsin Hamid Style
Writes prose in the style of Mohsin Hamid, speculative literary novelist. Activates on keywords like "Hamid style," "second person fiction," "migration speculative," or "write like Mohsin Hamid."
86 lines - N.K. Jemisin Style
Writes prose in the style of N.K. Jemisin, revolutionary speculative fiction voice. Activates on keywords like "Jemisin style," "second-person fantasy," "structural innovation," or "write like Jemisin."
91 lines - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Style
Writes prose in the style of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, satirist of American violence. Activates on keywords like "Adjei-Brenyah style," "speculative satire," "hyperreal fiction," or "write like Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah."
86 lines - Naomi Novik Style
Writes prose in the style of Naomi Novik, alchemist of fairy tale and fantasy. Activates on keywords like "Novik style," "fairy tale reimagining," "dark academia fantasy," or "write like Naomi Novik."
90 lines - Nassim Nicholas Taleb Style
Writes prose in the style of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, philosopher of risk and uncertainty. Activates on keywords like "Taleb style," "antifragile prose," "black swan rhetoric," or "write like Taleb."
96 lines - Nicole Krauss Style
Writes prose in the style of Nicole Krauss, elegist of memory, loss, and connection across time. Activates on keywords like "Krauss style," "literary fiction of memory," "interlocking narratives," or "write like Nicole Krauss."
96 lines - Olga Tokarczuk Style
Writes prose in the style of Olga Tokarczuk, constellation novelist. Activates on keywords like "Tokarczuk style," "fragmentary epic," "wandering narration," or "write like Olga Tokarczuk."
86 lines - Oliver Burkeman Style
Writes prose in the style of Oliver Burkeman, self-help contrarian and time philosopher. Activates on keywords like "Burkeman style," "productivity paradox," "finite time philosophy," or "write like Burkeman."
93 lines - Patrick Rothfuss Style
Writes prose in the style of Patrick Rothfuss, lyricist of fantasy fiction. Activates on keywords like "Rothfuss style," "lyrical fantasy," "unreliable memoir fantasy," or "write like Rothfuss."
91 lines - Paul Beatty Style
Writes prose in the style of Paul Beatty, satirical novelist and poet. Activates on keywords like "Beatty style," "racial satire," "absurdist social commentary," or "write like Paul Beatty."
86 lines - Paul Lynch Style
Writes prose in the style of Paul Lynch, dystopian literary novelist. Activates on keywords like "Lynch style," "dystopian literary fiction," "creeping authoritarianism," or "write like Paul Lynch."
86 lines - Paul Murray Style
Writes prose in the style of Paul Murray, Irish satirist of family and catastrophe. Activates on keywords like "Murray style," "Irish family saga," "comic literary fiction," or "write like Paul Murray."
93 lines - Percival Everett Style
Writes prose in the style of Percival Everett, satirical literary polymath. Activates on keywords like "Everett style," "meta-satirical fiction," "literary deconstruction," or "write like Percival Everett."
95 lines - Rachel Cusk Style
Writes prose in the style of Rachel Cusk, autofiction innovator. Activates on keywords like "Cusk style," "autofiction," "listening narrator," or "write like Rachel Cusk."
86 lines - Rachel Yoder Style
Writes prose in the style of Rachel Yoder, satirist of maternal identity and transformation. Activates on keywords like "Yoder style," "maternal body horror," "domestic metamorphosis," or "write like Rachel Yoder."
93 lines - Raven Leilani Style
Writes prose in the style of Raven Leilani, painter of precarious living. Activates on keywords like "Leilani style," "millennial urgency," "visceral realism," or "write like Raven Leilani."
86 lines - Rivers Solomon Style
Writes prose in the style of Rivers Solomon, speculative fiction novelist. Activates on keywords like "Solomon style," "Afrofuturist speculative," "embodied liberation fiction," or "write like Rivers Solomon."
86 lines - Robert Macfarlane Style
Writes prose in the style of Robert Macfarlane, nature writer and landscape chronicler. Activates on keywords like "Macfarlane style," "deep landscape prose," "topographic nature writing," or "write like Robert Macfarlane."
96 lines - Robin Hobb Style
Writes prose in the style of Robin Hobb, master of intimate epic fantasy. Activates on keywords like "Hobb style," "deep character fantasy," "emotional fantasy prose," or "write like Robin Hobb."
92 lines - Robin Wall Kimmerer Style
Writes prose in the style of Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist and Indigenous nature writer. Activates on keywords like "Kimmerer style," "indigenous ecology prose," "reciprocity nature writing," or "write like Kimmerer."
95 lines - Rumaan Alam Style
Writes prose in the style of Rumaan Alam, literary thriller novelist. Activates on keywords like "Alam style," "domestic dread," "apocalyptic literary fiction," or "write like Rumaan Alam."
86 lines - Samanta Schweblin Style
Writes prose in the style of Samanta Schweblin, architect of anxious fables. Activates on keywords like "Schweblin style," "uncanny dread," "Argentine speculative," or "write like Samanta Schweblin."
86 lines - Samantha Shannon Style
Writes prose in the style of Samantha Shannon, epic fantasy novelist. Activates on keywords like "Shannon style," "epic feminist fantasy," "matriarchal worldbuilding," or "write like Samantha Shannon."
86 lines - Sarah Bakewell Style
Writes prose in the style of Sarah Bakewell, philosophical biographer and essayist. Activates on keywords like "Bakewell style," "philosophical biography," "ideas-through-lives writing," or "write like Sarah Bakewell."
96 lines - Sayaka Murata Style
Writes prose in the style of Sayaka Murata, chronicler of social machinery. Activates on keywords like "Murata style," "conformity horror," "Japanese speculative," or "write like Sayaka Murata."
86 lines - Scott Lynch Style
Writes prose in the style of Scott Lynch, master of the fantasy heist. Activates on keywords like "Lynch style," "fantasy heist," "gentleman bastard voice," or "write like Scott Lynch."
91 lines - Seanan McGuire Style
Writes prose in the style of Seanan McGuire, cartographer of impossible doors. Activates on keywords like "McGuire style," "portal fantasy," "fairy tale horror," or "write like Seanan McGuire."
91 lines - Shelby Van Pelt Style
Writes prose in the style of Shelby Van Pelt, literary fiction novelist. Activates on keywords like "Van Pelt style," "nonhuman narrator," "gentle literary fiction," or "write like Shelby Van Pelt."
86 lines - Sigrid Nunez Style
Writes prose in the style of Sigrid Nunez, meditative essayist-novelist. Activates on keywords like "Nunez style," "essayistic fiction," "grief meditation," or "write like Sigrid Nunez."
86 lines - Stieg Larsson Style
Writes prose in the style of Stieg Larsson, architect of Swedish investigative thriller. Activates on keywords like "Larsson style," "Millennium trilogy," "Swedish investigative thriller," or "write like Stieg Larsson."
91 lines - Tamsyn Muir Style
Writes prose in the style of Tamsyn Muir, sci-fi/fantasy novelist. Activates on keywords like "Muir style," "necromantic fantasy," "irreverent gothic," or "write like Tamsyn Muir."
86 lines - Ted Chiang Style
Writes prose in the style of Ted Chiang, master of philosophical science fiction. Activates on keywords like "Chiang style," "philosophical sci-fi," "thought experiment fiction," or "write like Ted Chiang."
91 lines - TJ Klune Style
Writes prose in the style of TJ Klune, champion of heartfelt fantasy. Activates on keywords like "Klune style," "heartfelt fantasy," "found family warmth," or "write like TJ Klune."
91 lines - Tommy Orange Style
Writes prose in the style of Tommy Orange, urban Indigenous novelist. Activates on keywords like "Tommy Orange style," "urban Native fiction," "polyphonic realism," or "write like Tommy Orange."
89 lines - Torrey Peters Style
Writes prose in the style of Torrey Peters, chronicler of trans life and chosen family. Activates on keywords like "Peters style," "trans literary fiction," "queer domestic novel," or "write like Torrey Peters."
94 lines - Travis Baldree Style
Writes prose in the style of Travis Baldree, cozy fantasy novelist. Activates on keywords like "Baldree style," "cozy fantasy," "low-stakes warmth," or "write like Travis Baldree."
86 lines - Valeria Luiselli Style
Writes prose in the style of Valeria Luiselli, cartographer of displacement. Activates on keywords like "Luiselli style," "migratory narration," "Mexican-American literary," or "write like Valeria Luiselli."
86 lines - Viet Thanh Nguyen Style
Writes prose in the style of Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnamese-American novelist. Activates on keywords like "Nguyen style," "refugee fiction," "double consciousness narrative," or "write like Viet Thanh Nguyen."
86 lines - Yoko Ogawa Style
Writes prose in the style of Yoko Ogawa, architect of quiet erasure. Activates on keywords like "Ogawa style," "elegant absence," "memory erosion," or "write like Yoko Ogawa."
86 lines - Zadie Smith Style
Writes prose in the style of Zadie Smith, virtuosic literary polymath. Activates on keywords like "Smith style," "multicultural literary fiction," "comic social novel," or "write like Zadie Smith."
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