SPARK Is Now Available: Self-Publish with AI, Reason & KDP

SPARK is published. Self-Publish with AI, Reason & KDP is now available as an ebook and a paperback, and I’m very happy to finally be able to write that sentence.

No preview, no promise that the final part will follow. A finished book, out in the world, ready to meet readers. 

Shortly after release, I saw SPARK at #3 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list in Generative AI, alongside Ethan Mollick’s Co-Existence. That made me proud. Rankings move, of course, but seeing my book there was a lovely surprise. For a project that spent rather longer on the runway than planned, it was quite a take-off. 

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Virtual Suckerball

See prompt for Virtual Suckerball

Inside a dimly lit high-tech Command & Conquer war room, shot with J.J. Abrams–style anamorphic lenses and bold blue lens flares streaking across polished metal surfaces, a stressed military general leans over a holographic tactical table. The camera pushes in with rapid precision as he SLAMS his fist on the glowing battlefield map, causing the digital unit icons—tiny tanks, infantry, and aircraft— to EXPLODE into motion like startled creatures. Use whip-pan transitions as the icons ripple outward across the table, morphing into stylized retro pixel athletes with exaggerated 16-bit animations. The holographic grid warps and folds, transforming seamlessly into a top-down Sensible Soccer pitch. Cut to an Abrams-style dramatic REVEAL: the camera whips downward through a flare blast into a gritty locker room where the pixelated players now materialize as real athletes—sweaty, focused, lit with harsh overhead fluorescents and flickering holographic overlays that echo their pixel origins. They pull on retro kits with military-style insignia. A coach slaps a chalkboard—dust and lens flares bloom—revealing the same tactical map from the war room, now converted into a goofy 16-bit soccer formation. End on a fast dolly-in toward the team captain, who snaps his head up toward camera; his eyes flash with a subtle Tiberium glow as the EVA shows: ‘Mission… kick-off.’ Final micro-flare, smash cut to white