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Writing can feel solitary. Most of the time, it is just you, the computer, the doubts, the rewrites, the coffee, and that stubborn little voice insisting the story is not finished yet.

Then you go to a writers conference.

You meet authors who have been doing this for decades. You meet first-time writers carrying their dreams around in a tote bag. You meet readers, editors, agents, detectives, doctors, professors, and people who can somehow discuss murder over breakfast and make it sound perfectly normal.

One quote from Killer Nashville has stayed with me:

Somewhere, someone is waiting to read what you wrote.

I love that.

Because it is easy to forget, sitting alone with a manuscript, that stories are not meant to stay on our computers. They are meant to leave our hands and find the people who need them.

The Forbidden Strain went to Nashville as a Silver Falchion finalist for Best Thriller. I’m proud of that. And humbled.

But the bigger gift was momentum. New friendships. New conversations. New reminders that books do not really come alive until they reach someone on the other side of the page.

That is where I’m now. The Babel Protocol launches September 1, and this one has been at least two years in the making. It began with a question that felt like fiction when I started and feels a lot less fictional now:

What happens when humanity builds an intelligence smarter than we are—and then declares it a person?

Order it today: The Babel Protocol