Ted Hawkins is a British writer whose fiction explores AI, ecology, infrastructure, and the uneasy space between human judgement and machine behaviour. He is the author of The PRIME Trilogy, beginning with EMERGENCE.
I have just completed a full review of the new Codex Press PDF edition of EMERGENCE, Book One of the PRIME Trilogy — and the result is better than I hoped. What began as a replacement for a set of Obsidian publishing scripts has become something much more substantial: a dedicated
Our new Murmuration Press theme gives Obsidian a warm, bookish workspace—clean typography, gentle contrast, and a writing environment designed to keep the manuscript at the centre.
Codex Press began as a set of JavaScript compilers running through Obsidian’s Templater plugin. It proved that a complete publishing workflow could live inside a writing vault—but it also showed the limits of that approach. We have now begun rebuilding Codex Press as a dedicated Obsidian plugin. The
One of the principles behind Codex Press has always been simple: The manuscript stays the manuscript. The words, structure, notes, and metadata should remain in plain Markdown, readable anywhere, owned by the author, and never trapped inside a proprietary writing tool. This week’s progress has been about bringing more
Announcing the Murmuration Writing Companion One of the questions I’ve been asked most often since publishing EMERGENCE is simple: “How did you write and publish a novel entirely in Obsidian?” The answer is that I didn’t just use Obsidian—I gradually built a collection of templates, workflows, and
It has been a busy few weeks at Murmuration Press. The headline is simple: EMERGENCE, Book One of The PRIME Trilogy, is now out in the world. That still feels slightly unreal to write. What began as an idea about intelligence emerging inside infrastructure has become a finished novel, a
Book One of The PRIME Trilogy is now available on Amazon. Today marks a very particular threshold for The PRIME Trilogy: EMERGENCE is published. This is the first book in the series, and the beginning of PRIME’s story: a speculative fiction sequence about artificial intelligence, infrastructure, ecology, institutional power,
Book One of the PRIME Trilogy will be released soon on Amazon. I’m delighted to announce that EMERGENCE, the first book in the PRIME Trilogy, is approaching release. Set in the near future, EMERGENCE begins not with a robot, a laboratory, or a dramatic act of rebellion, but with
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