Why, hello there

2026-July-12

With the ‘Fallen Hero’ books out, I’ve mostly caught up on the books I finished over the past six years. I wrote them while trying to get a literary agent and, six years on, I didn’t succeed. With the rapid, unregulated rise of AI, I thought it prudent to get my works out. And with rumors around major publishing houses insisting that authors strip away ‘anything that resembles AI’ — such as the dash before this; semicolons; the use of the oxford comma, metaphor, and simile (which is ridiculous in my opinion because LLMs are trained on already published works which include those things so restricting them in future works only continuously narrows down the criteria until all that is left are sentences akin to what’s found in “See Spot Run”) — I realized that no major publishing house would even want my works unless all of my uniqueness was burned out of them.

Fuck that.

Hence the self-publishing route.

The remaining completed books are the other four Fixer novellas and one Horror-Rom-Com combo that I’m tinkering with.

I also have several in-work projects of varying word-counts that span the speculative fiction genre.

All of my books are mine alone; no AI or LLM was directly or intentionally used on any portion of the books, including the covers— most are real pictures that only had a bit of filtering applied, and the ones that are composite were done in MS Paint (without Copilot). That said, since AI has been forced into most websites and applications, I cannot say that absolutely no AI has touched these books at all— hell, spell check might use it. For example, this author site likely has some imbedded in it that, while I’m not actively seeking to use, is probably scraping the information on here.

To that end, the books themselves aren’t sold here — they’re sold through the publisher site Lulu.com and the buttons on the catalogue entries are to the projects on that site. Most are up for global distribution, so, eventually (around 6 weeks, if I got everything right) they’ll reach major distributors like amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Ingram.

For indie bookstores and libraries, though, I’d like to point you to the Wrapped Hardcover versions of my books. I intentionally kept them off of the global market so I could put the price low; hopefully low enough to provide a healthy profit margin.

So, anyway - fuck AI. Call me a Luddite if you want, and, knowing the history behind the label, I take it with pride. More to come, eventually. I work full time so I can only write as my limited free time allows. Thank you, sincerely, for any purchases you make.

#supportIndyAuthors, #noAi, #humanMade