This a back and forth dance. In the Story section, the AI will generate some character names. Here's what you do: 1. Make a list of all the names you want to change and what you want to change them to. 2. Regenerate the premise with the instruction (one per line): "rename X Y". 3. Regenerate each of the three story acts with the same set of instructions. 4. Move to character generation. Generate characters. They may not have the same names. 5. Edit each character and change his/her name. 6. Once you have done this for all the characters, edit each character again and click 'Regenerate' with no instructions. This will update the character relationships section. Teething issues.

@David Pack To be fair, Shakespeare and the King James Bible have unusual syntactic fingerprints and don't read human at all. As for Harry Potter, I think the sentence "....Dumbledore said calmly" appears over a thousand times across the seven books.

@Joe Wadas I think the twist ending discovery that God is a neural network the size of the Universe would be classic Philip K Dick style sci-fi material

May I ask how exactly the description designated flashbacks through the chapters? The answer might hold the key to why it didn't happen. Flashbacks can take many forms, from dialogue one-liners to chapter-length stories. The picture you have in your head won't necessarily be the interpretation of another human person, let alone an AI platform. BookNova isn't a mind reader: the further you stray from traditional/conventional narrative format and structure, the more detailed and precise you need to be in your prompts. My intuition is to do the following: In the Tone & Style section of the Story Bible, write "This story features numerous flashbacks in which the reader is shown a previous event experienced by the POV character. Flashbacks are written in third-person past tense [or whatever mode matches your story] from the POV of the chapter's POV character. Flashbacks are distinguished from the main storyline in two ways. 1. They appear between section dividers. 2. The body copy is formatted in italics. The main storyline transitions to a flashback when the signal FLASHBACK: appears. The flashback ends and the main storyline resumes when the signal BACK TO STORY: appears. Transitions from main storyline to flashback and from flashback to main storyline are marked by a section divider." Then, you create your outline and expand your chapter summaries. You go through them one by one and whenever you want a flashback to appear you start a new line in the chapter summary and write FLASHBACK: and you describe what happens in the flashback. At the end of the flashback, you start a new line in the chapter summary and write BACK TO STORY: and continue the main storyline that the engine generated for you. I haven't tried it and can't guarantee it will work, but personally that would be my starting point. It may take some trial and error to refine the process. More experienced users may have other advice; there is no reason you should take mine over theirs.

@Doug Owen Thanks for explaining; I keep discovering new things that are useful to know when it comes to AI-generated books.

@David Pack and @Doug Owen forgive my ignorance, but what is it about steampunk that makes it genre? I always thought of it more in terms of mood, setting, technology, etc. But I assumed you could have a steampunk thriller, a steampunk whodunit, a steamysteampunk romance, a steampunk fantasy, a steampunk police procedural... maybe not a steampunk small town romance or cozy mystery... but I'm curious as to what makes it a genre of storytelling because I could be missing out on immense richness and depth of which I'm currently unaware.

That's especially valuable for mysteries because the table of contents is right at the front of the book. If the penultimate chapter's title is "The Butler's Murderous Confession" then that's a lot of work down the drain.