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Transmedia Marketing - Unexpected Successes

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Transwhat?

So to start of, we probably need to talk about transmedia literature. With most books, the writing is the real content. The only content in most cases. “The Fifth Anomaly: A Threshold Chronicle” is far from that.

While the book is the primary point of interest for the reader, there are other components to the story. A companion album 10,000 [Ye|Fe]ars was released before the book.

Why before though?

Well for a number of reasons.

Typesetting is hard

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Typesetting is Hard

Well to clarify, for most writers it’s probably not. But my book probably has several considerations that most people don’t for literary formatting:

CJK Font Dependency: I use a lot of NOTO China/Japan/Korea fonts for Yomi’s text
Full Color Unicode Emojis: Because a lot of the book (especially early) occurs digitally, there’s a lot of emoji use.
Fenced formatting: I use this to generate a styled background for Discord conversation in the book to make sure that they stand out

Even in the cases of the above, generating an EPUB is a lot easier than typesetting for a print run. The reasons are basically in the origins of the EPUB. For those unaware, an EPUB is basically just a zip archive with a bunch of formatted HTML. So the context is that a computer is running this in a markup format and the hardware / software does most of the heavy lifting.

My Approach to AI Assisted Writing

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AI Assisted Writing

First off, I understand that this is going to trigger some people, but I use AI (very specifically Anthropic’s Claude Code Opus 4.5) in my writing endeavors.

Now this apparently requires some clarification as using “AI” in the same sentence as “writing” causes some people’s heads to explode because of an assumption all I’m doing is entering a prompt and getting book. This is far from the case.

Reddit Seems to Suck

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reddit and The Anonymous Mod Army

So I recently created a post in r/selfpublishing to cover a lot of the things I learned about publishing and how I write (since markdown is not really common in this industry).

It was meant as a post mortem, or an evaluation of what went well / didn’t go well with the process procedurally, technically etc. There was no reference to my book, links to it or anything more than “I wrote a book…here’s what I learned”.

The Magic and the Sauce

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I wrote a cosmic horror novel The Fifth Anomaly: A Threshold Chronicle with a companion metalcore album, QR codes linking chapters to tracks, an in-world website, and an AI chatbot based on one of the characters. Here’s how.

Medium - Markdown

First, I’m a software engineer before a writer. This is my first attempt writing a book, so I stuck to a medium I’m most comfortable with. All of the chapters in the book are written as markdown in the following tree format: