Verify My Writing Welcomes Mary Ann Naples as Strategic Advisor

WASHINGTON, D.C. ​ – May 27, 2026 – Mary Ann Naples, a respected veteran of the publishing industry, has joined the advisory board of Verify My Writing — an authenticity tool that verifies and certifies human authorship. Writers use Verify My Writing to scan, verify, and certify their work is human-written with a trackable credential and a QR code back to the document provenance.

Mary Ann Naples is the COO & Publisher of Publishers Marketplace and created PM’s Buzz Books Official Substack. Previously, she was a publisher at the Hachette Book Group, The Walt Disney Company, and Rodale. Naples has also had extensive experience in other areas of publishing including agenting and startups, and she began her career in editorial.

“We are in an authenticity crisis, so I am thrilled to have Mary Ann join Verify My Writing in this fight to protect and amplify human authorship,” said Derek Newton, CEO and Founder of Verify My Writing. “Writers are seeking ways to protect their brand and prove they are the authors of their own work. Verify My Writing gives power and control back to authors, journalists, students, researchers, and anyone needing to prove the authenticity of their work.”

Naples said, “I am impressed by Derek Newton’s integrity and track record of impeccable journalism on academic and workplace fraud. He has given writers a way to take back control of their creative efforts in a market that feels made even more complex by AI. With Verify My Writing, Newton is going beyond personal attestation and using the best tools on the market to create a simple and effective way to give publishers and others peace of mind regarding human authorship.”

Naples added, “As recent events have unfortunately shown us, authors need more than their own word regarding authorship of their works in the age of AI, and everything I’ve seen so far convinces me that Derek Newton and Verify My Writing have found a way to do that.”

Newton is a writer and journalist and is an expert in workplace, credential, and academic fraud, which he has covered since writing about it in The Atlantic in 2015. He created Verify My Writing to address the growing infiltration of AI slop into publishing, journalism, screenwriting, and education. It is the only technology that gives trackable verification of human authorship.

About Verify My Writing
​Verify My Writing (VerifyMyWriting.com) is for writers to verify and certify that their work is authentic and human, not created by AI. A VMW scan and certification assures editors, agents, publishers, producers, and the public that written work has been checked, and verified to be human-written.

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