A Kings

  • The Author Continues Refreshing Amazon Like a Deranged Weather Forecaster

    By a guy who now knows the Amazon dashboard far more intimately than any human being should A few days have passed since Hidden Alignment wandered nervously onto Amazon wearing its little paperback suit and pretending not to panic. And I’ll be honest with you. Being a first-time author is psychologically fascinating because every tiny…

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  • Doodling: A Baffling Habit I’ve Somehow Acquired

    By someone who should really be rewiring your microwave, not typing this nonsense Writing. Yes. That peculiar act of dragging symbols across a page in the hope they make some kind of sense. It’s a bit mad when you think about it. And for most of my life, I treated it with the same level…

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  • Hidden Alignment: Now Off the Leash — Available for Kindle Pre-Order

    There comes a point—usually somewhere between your third cup of coffee and the quiet realization that sleep isn’t coming—when you decide to stop tinkering and simply let the thing go. Not because it’s perfect (it isn’t), but because it’s honest. And honesty, unlike perfection, actually has a pulse. This book is one of those things.…

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  • A Quiet Walk, a Terrible Idea, and a Book Soon to Be Available on AMAZON

    By a man who thought he was writing a simple story and instead built something that refuses to sit quietly There are, broadly speaking, two types of people in this world. Those who go for a quiet walk in the countryside and return with fresh air, mild satisfaction, and perhaps a slightly damp shoe. And…

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  • I Finished the Book… and It Will Soon Be Available on AMAZON!

    By a man who should have stopped editing three years ago but didn’t, because he thought he knew better. There comes a point—usually sometime after your fifteen-hundredth unnecessary edit and your tenth cup of tea that’s gone cold because you were busy rearranging a perfectly good sentence—when you realise something deeply troubling. The book is…

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  • A Boy, a Dream, and the Universe

    There was once a boy who dared to dream big. I mean really big—like rearrange the planets, have a conversation with the stars, maybe negotiate a truce with a black hole kind of big. His family, stretched thin and closer to scraping by than rolling in gold, encouraged him anyway. In spirit, in the little…

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