Atlanta Nights is a collaborative novel created in 2004 by a group of science fiction and fantasy authors, with the express purpose of producing an unpublishably bad piece of work, so as to test whether publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it.

[2] The primary purpose of the exercise was to test PublishAmerica's claims to be a "traditional publisher" that would only accept high-quality manuscripts.

At one point, PublishAmerica posted articles on their AuthorsMarket website stating that, among other things: [S]cience-fiction and fantasy writers have it easier.

Obviously, and fortunately, there are not too many of them, but the ones who are indeed not ashamed to be seen as literary parasites and plagiarists, are usually the loudest, just like the proverbial wheel that needs the most grease.

[2] The hoaxers reviewed the contract with legal counsel, and made the decision not to carry the hoax through to actually publishing the book.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden's review said, "The world is full of bad books written by amateurs.

Production was tentatively scheduled to begin August 2011, but on May 16, 2011 the crowd funding campaign ended without reaching its goal.