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Disclaimer: This book is "AI slop" I generated as an experiment.

For the past few years, I've been "vibe scribbling" with AI. Not prompting for finished work. Not trying to replace my creative process. Just... playing. Sketching ideas. Following threads. Seeing what happens when you treat AI as a collaborator in the earliest, loosest stages of creation.

The Curious Order of Ink & Flame came out of that experiment.

It started with a simple question: What if there was a book I desperately wanted to read, but couldn't justify spending months or years actually scribbling? Something for me. A gift to my own imagination.

I've spent my career telling stories for screens. Alias, Lost, Heroes, Hannibal, Star Trek: Discovery, blah-blah-blah. I know how to build worlds under deadline pressure. But Curious Order wasn't a job. It was an playground.

I wanted to create a fictional pulp author from the early 20th century, give him adventures and philosophies and a mysterious disappearance, and then compile it all as if his great-grandson had discovered the legacy.

So I started generating pieces. A biography section one month. Podcast scripts from the descendant's perspective another. A fake newspaper review. An interview with fictional contemporaries. Philosophy documents for a made-up creative order. Robot ethics predating Asimov. Noir detective stories set in 1930s Hollywood.

Each piece was its own experiment. Some worked immediately. Others needed multiple passes, different approaches, rethinking the premise. AI didn't write this for me. It wrote with me, responding to what I brought to each session, building on ideas I'd sketched, surprising me with connections I hadn't seen.

Then came the synthesis. Taking all these scattered documents and using Claude Code to weave them into something coherent-ish.

First, I had it organize all my "vibe scribbles" into a wiki. Peruse here if you're curious: https://curiousorderofficialwiki.netl...

Once that was done, I asked Claude to use all the content to put together a book with a narrative frame influenced by a series of podcast scripts about -- Jack Prescott, the struggling filmmaker grandson, discovering his ancestor's trunk and compiling this volume. Voice threading through the biographical sections, adding personal reflection to the historical record.

The result is something I genuinely enjoyed listening to. That was always the goal. Not to publish it traditionally, not to prove anything about AI, just to make a thing I wished existed. A book with an audience of one. That I didn't write. So I would be surprised while giving it a listen.

What did I learn? AI collabs work best when you bring strong creative vision to the table. When you know what you're aiming for, even if you can't execute it solo. When you treat the technology as a sketching tool rather than a finishing machine.

I hope my own weird little experiment inspires others to mess around with any dormant creative projects awaiting defrag on their hard drives.

THE CURIOUS ORDER OF INK & FLAME: The Life and Legacy of J.B. Prescott
Full Audiobook

When aspiring filmmaker Jack Prescott discovers a weathered trunk in his late father's attic, he uncovers more than family secrets. He finds the lost legacy of his great-grandfather, J.B. Prescott, a pulp fiction pioneer, World War I pilot, globe-trotting adventurer, and founder of the mysterious Curious Order of Ink & Flame.

What begins as a journey into family history becomes a deep dive into one of speculative fiction's forgotten visionaries. From the sun-drenched ranches of 1890s Santa Barbara to the trenches of World War I, from the backlots of Golden Age Hollywood to occult rituals in a Pasadena mansion, J.B. Prescott lived a life as extraordinary as the stories he wrote.

This audiobook presents Jack's compilation of his great-grandfather's life, philosophy, and creative legacy, including:

The making of "Challengers of the Secret Tree," J.B.'s genre-defining serialized epic
The Fifteen Fundamentals of Robotics, ethical guidelines that predated and surpassed Asimov's Three Laws
The Celluloid Casefiles, hard-boiled Hollywood noir featuring detective Zeb Marlowe
The complete philosophy of Narrative DRIVE and the Five Curious Spirits
Selected Cantos and Psalms from the Order's sacred texts
J.B.'s mysterious disappearance in 1961

Part biography, part creative manifesto, part unsolved mystery, THE CURIOUS ORDER OF INK & FLAME is for anyone who believes that stories have the power to change reality.

Semper curiosus. Semper creatrix.
Always curious. Always creative.

CHAPTERS:
Title & Dedication
Prologue: The Trunk in the Attic
Part One: The Man Behind the Myth
Part Two: The Works
Part Three: The Curious Order
Part Four: The Sacred Texts
Epilogue: The Adventure Continues
Appendices

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