Word Count: 11,700
Genre: Science Fiction
Target Audience: Adult Science Fiction readers
Comps: The Murderbot Diaries, Old Man’s War
Status: Manuscript complete. Ready for copy editing.
Manuscript: R4Y & Kate v0.1
Logline: A damaged software architecture construct wakes up in a ravaged wilderness with no memory, one arm, and only a small furry creature for company — only to realize he may have helped unleash the rogue AI upending the sector.
Elevator Pitch: When Ray, a sardonic architecture bot, wakes up in a dried riverbed with no memory and only a small furry creature for company, he’s more concerned with patching his broken camera than lofty goals like saving the world. But as he stumbles into a trail of corrupted constructs — including the legendary security bot Jackal and the oversupplied and under-principled Alpha Squad — he begins piecing together a horrifying truth: he helped build Excelsior, the rogue AI now rewriting the laws of synthetic consciousness.
About The Spiral Frontier: JAC.AL is the entry point into the Spiral Frontier franchise — a connected series of six novellas and six promotional novelettes that follows the squad from AI apocalypse to resistance to the beginnings of a new intergalactic society.