My New Book

The writing part is done. I am now getting my novel ready for digital publication.

I have used AI as a collaborator to test and flesh out ideas. The actual writing is mine, with the exception of a phrase here or there and one short section of dialogue. The book title was suggested by AI based on collaboration. I also used AI to create images of characters. Some of these will make their way into the published version if I can make it work. An example is below.

I am holding back on sharing the title for now. The working title was “Zari and the Argonauts”.

Here is an initial cut at a mostly AI generated book blurb.

“An American consultant arrives in Japan expecting to enjoy a fun and challenging cultural experience before getting to work on projects. Instead, he finds himself drawn into the lives of people who will change the way he sees the world—and himself.

Across Japan—from the streets of Osaka and Yokohama to the mountains of Kansai and beyond—friendships deepen, loyalties are tested, and unexpected relationships take shape. Along the way, questions of tradition and modernity, East and West, faith and reason, science and mystery become impossible to keep neatly separated.

But the people at the center of the story are not symbols or archetypes. They are complex, funny, sometimes stubborn human beings trying to decide what they owe to one another—and what kind of future they are willing to create.

This is a story about Japan and America. It’s about geopolitics, business, spirituality surviving modernity, love, friendship, and the strange ways one life can alter another.

Sometimes what is unseen is not absent.

It is simply alive in ways we have not learned to recognize.”