Lawrence Nault - Mountain Hermit - Author

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Shattered Ice is out today.

A YA environmental fantasy about northern ice, disrupted migration, water, wildlife, dragons, grief, courage, and hope.

It is part of the Draconim series — stories where ordinary teenagers discover they are bound to ancient dragons, not as weapons or symbols of conquest, but as guardians connected to the deep memory of Earth itself.

Each book follows a different ecological wound.

Poisoned air. Burning forests. Plastic in the water. Melting ice.

But these are not stories about despair.

They are stories about young people who notice what adults keep explaining away. Young people who listen. Young people who act. Young people who understand that the future is not something they should have to inherit silently.

For readers who like dragons, climate fiction, ecological fantasy, youth activism, grief, wonder, and hope that has teeth.

Shattered Ice is available now.

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The Credence War is a poem born out of shock, grief, and reflection on what it means when belief itself becomes a battlefield.

In Minneapolis this month, two U.S. residents — Renée Good and Alex Pretti — were fatally shot during federal immigration enforcement operations involving ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), a surge that has shaken the city and sparked protests and national debate.

The poem uses the metaphor of a cold front to explore how systems of enforcement and denial can harden into policy and silence, and how care and human warmth push back against that hardness. “The Credence War” refers to the deeper conflict over who we believe, who counts, and whose lives we see as human — a battle over legitimacy, memory, and shared reality.

The Credence War

It’s been a while since I’ve shared a Sunday morning poem.

#poetry #political poetry #the credence war #belief #power

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There is a panic setting in among indie-creatives (authors, musicians, film). As the platforms that have been key to their success (and their ability to participate in a wider market) raise their costs, indie-creators are cutting their own margins, and taking on the work the platforms did for them without a full understanding of the costs.

The Deep-End Dynamic

Why some markets rise as creators drown

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Rogue Full Trailer

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ew poster for The Symbiosis Sequence — five ways of being human (with AI). Feature release: Children of the Rogue (Humans as AI). Choose your greatest fear: humans using AI to control us · AI choosing for us · we are the AI. Start anywhere. Read in any order.

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The best laid plans...

Spent a year building the perfect launch runway. Pressed nothing. Platform burped. Book went live a month early. Panic = author cardio. 🫠