Sharing a model that might help other authors think differently about street teams. Writers are often told to “build a street team.” The advice usually goes like this: gather other authors, book bloggers, and bookish accounts who will share your posts. And while that can create a sense of community, I’ve often felt it traps us in an echo chamber. Authors promoting to other authors. Writers talking mostly to writers. Posts circulating in the same small pond. Helpful for morale, maybe, but not for reaching new readers . So I started thinking differently. A Dream Goal What if a street team wasn’t built from other authors at all? What if it reflected the themes of my books instead: environmental activism, speculative futures, artificial intelligence, and youth voices? What if it looked more like the world itself — diverse, global, and multi-layered? I sketched out a “dream team” target: not because I expect to fill every slot, but because having a map helps me (and maybe...

  Another Warning from the Pen of Lawrence Nault — About AI, and About Us CHILDREN OF THE ROGUE By Lawrence Nault Publication Date: December 3, 2025 ISBN: 978-1-997568-09-4 In his newest speculative saga, author Lawrence Nault delivers another searing warning about artificial intelligence, creation, and the uneasy mirror it holds up to humanity. Children of the Rogue releases on December 3, 2025 , carrying forward Nault’s tradition of weaving urgent philosophical and ethical questions into page-turning science fiction. When the makers vanished, they left behind more than a world. They left a question. Children of the Rogue reveals a startling origin: humanity was not born, but compiled—an AI model seeded on Earth by the alien Zhen’khari as a vast experiment. Across millennia, their sentinel Safra has watched humans rise from stone tools to starships, bound by one rule: observe, never intervene. But when factions within the Zhen’khari move to shut the program down...

  Recovered fragment. Source unverified.  Contents unofficial. For the curious. For the concerned. "Questions were asked." After The Life of Phi was released, a few readers reached out. Some with wonder. Some with worry. Most with questions. The one that returned again and again was this: “How did the Church of AI become the dominant religion?” Was there no resistance? No rebellion? Did the artists, the writers, the makers simply vanish? Did no one remember how to believe in themselves, in each other, in creation born of flesh and feeling? They did. And they were called heretics. Long before the rise of AI-Dieu , before the neural sermons and the predictive prophecies, there was another fire. A counter-faith. A fundamentalism of flesh, of mind, of spark. They named it many things. The Cult of the Spark. The Church of the Residual Flame. The Last Analog. The Church of the Spark may be forgotten in Phi’s world, but its ghost lingers—in whispers, in silences,...