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Ian saw me writing AI-assisted erotica and asked if I was gay. I explained. He said he was down to do a book together. A few weeks later he overdosed. So I wrote it anyway, with his real name, because he would have loved that I did.
Read Article →Born in 1978, the uncles and friends' fathers were all Vietnam. Not research — those men were in the jungle. Hell Glory is pulp written for them and because of them, gritty and fast and honest about what war does without pretending to be anything other than a story.
Read Article →Vietnam, Iraq, and the Revolution — three war pulp series written by someone who grew up with veterans in the room, lost a friend in Fallujah, and never confused anti-war with anti-soldier. Gritty, fast, comic-book energy with real grief underneath.
Read Article →Revolutionary War fiction usually arrives powdered, polished, and a little too proud of its own uniforms. Liberty or Death works better because it remembers the war was dirty, improvised, intimate, and often won by people who already knew how to survive outside polite society.
Read Article →Two characters from two books that actually found readers. What made the writing work, what the AI got right, what it needed correcting, and what writers can take from fiction that charted on Amazon before most people admitted this kind of collaboration was possible.
Read Article →Extinction Code was one of my first real AI-assisted series experiments. The premise still has heat. The drift was real too. Long-form fiction exposed something useful: AI does not just amplify ideas. It amplifies patterns, and Claude should care about that.
Read Article →Writing was only the first line crossed. Once the voice models got good enough, the question stopped being whether synthetic narration was possible and became whether it could carry atmosphere, tension, and the embarrassment of intimacy without collapsing into novelty.
Read Article →The series works because Naomi is not discovering domination as decoration. She is discovering it as method. Paris gives her the room, revenge gives her the engine, and the writing understands that power is usually more psychological than theatrical.
Read Article →The useful surprise was never that AI could produce explicit prose. The surprise was that, under pressure and with enough guidance, it could sometimes find tone, escalation, and character intelligence better than the human who thought he was only using it as a helper.
Read Article →The people who built the early internet did it in the dark, by hand, with no dashboard to lie to them. Lucas wrote the manual at the exact moment that world was being paved over. In 2026 it reads like a warning.
Read Article →The useful story is not that AI suddenly invented wisdom. The useful story is what happens when old strategic instincts, family memory, illness, work, and long machine-assisted nights finally line up and show you a pattern that had been waiting there for years.
Read Article →Three books are out. The useful question is no longer whether they exist. It is whether the later pass can sharpen voice, rebalance reward, and make the series feel more like itself instead of merely more finished.
Read Article →Five books, five Long Island coastal animals, one street named Oswego. Nature stories fail when they become classroom paste. These stayed alive because the place was real, the animals behaved like animals, and the land had a longer memory than any of the people currently living on it.
Read Article →The series works because it understands corporate life as an erotic surveillance machine long before it starts describing sex. Offices, elevators, clubs, golf lessons, access control, leverage, and appetite are all already speaking the same language.
Read Article →Five books set against the witch-trial machinery of colonial New England, except the accused are not misunderstood innocents waiting for rehabilitation. They are powerful, furious, and perfectly justified in burning the architecture of their persecution to the ground.
Read Article →A NYC kid who spent summers in Rome imagining stories in the ruins finally built the ancient world pulp he always wanted. The first book landed. The series got away from him. The covers are still some of the best early AI work he has ever seen.
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