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Fingerprints In The Water | media release | microplastics | plastics | pollution | press release | W.A.V.E. 4000 | world ocean day | Youth activism

New YA Novel and Storytelling Video Illuminate Ocean Crisis Through the Eyes of Youth – Media Release
ByLawrence Nault June 2, 2025July 12, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8, 2025 – World Ocean Day New YA Novel and Storytelling Video Illuminate Ocean Crisis Through the Eyes of Youth Author Lawrence Nault Releases Fingerprints In The Water with a Special World Ocean Day Feature On World Ocean Day, author and filmmaker Lawrence Nault releases Fingerprints In The Water, the third…

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Summer reading list 2025

Summer Reading List 2025
ByLawrence Nault May 20, 2025July 13, 2026

🔥 Campfire Conversations As the sun sets and stories come to life beneath the stars, let the books you read spark something more: connection. Each tale—from forest creature fables to interplanetary adventures and dragon-led revolutions—offers a starting point for conversations that can ignite wonder, reflection, and laughter across generations. Pull up a log, pass…

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climate fiction | creative process | ecological grief | environmental themes | hope through story | narrative power | quiet resistance | storytelling | writing in a collapsing world | YA literature

Stone and Signal – Episode 2: Tales That Touch The Earth
ByLawrence Nault May 14, 2025July 12, 2026

Welcome back to Stone and Signal. If you haven’t heard the first episode yet you can find information on Episdoe 1 here. The Podcast Links Edpisode 2 on YouTube Episode 2 on Spotify The Essay The Transcript Tales That Touch The Earth Photo by Nitin Arya: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photography-of-book-page-1029141/ I didn’t plan to write this. Like…

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AI ethics | anti-AI | Apocrypha | Church of the Spark | creative authenticity | digital resistance | future religion | Speculative Fiction | storytelling | The Life of Phi

THE LIFE OF PHI — Addendum from the Apocrypha
ByLawrence Nault April 26, 2025July 12, 2026

Recovered fragment. Source unverified. Contents unofficial. For the curious. For the concerned. “Questions were asked.” After The Life of Phi was released, a few readers reached out. Some with wonder. Some with worry. Most with questions. The one that returned again and again was this: “How did the Church of AI become the dominant religion?”…

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book marketing | child protection | children's safety | COPPA | data privacy | digital ethics | GDPR-K | indie publishing | outreach | social media | trust-based tools | YA authors | young readers

The Cost of Connection: Reaching Young Readers Without Compromise
ByLawrence Nault April 24, 2025July 13, 2026

Young readers have always been the heart of my audience. It is where I started my publishing journey twenty years ago, and I continue to write for them in my Draconim and MacIver Kids series. My stories are written for them—their grief, their fire, their fierce sense of justice. But I’ve also known I couldn’t,…

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author reflections | climate change | courage and resistance | Draconim series | environmental justice | hope and truth | storytelling and activism | writing for youth | writing responsibility | youth empowerment

The Cost of Courage: Writing for Young Voices in a Fractured World
ByLawrence Nault April 19, 2025July 13, 2026

The Cost of Courage: Writing for Young Voices in a Fractured World I wrote the Draconim series with a fire in my chest—the conviction that young people have a voice, and that voice matters. That they can rise, speak, and lead the way in protecting the Earth and reimagining the future. That they don’t have…

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attention economy | author life | book promotion | creative process | digital hermit | faq | indie author | introvert on social media | social media | writing life

Social Media FAQ: The Hermit in the Town Square
ByLawrence Nault April 18, 2025

Social Media FAQ: The Hermit in the Town Square Yes, I’m online. No, I’m not built for this. Social media is one of the most challenging parts of being a writer today. I don’t come by the label “hermit” by chance. I prefer quiet, depth, solitude—and yet, here I am, in the digital town square,…

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AI | art and machines | creativity | ethics | future of creativity | human exceptionalism | philosophy of technology | Speculative Fiction | storytelling | writing life

The Shifting Boundaries of Creativity: Human Exceptionalism Meets AI
ByLawrence Nault April 9, 2025July 13, 2026

Lately, as I write and research, I find myself caught in quiet arguments with myself—turning over questions about creativity, machines, and what makes something meaningful. These thoughts aren’t just abstract; they shape how I build worlds, characters, and systems in my fiction. One recurring question keeps surfacing: if something not human can create, what does…

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