ZeroState publishes literary and genre fiction developed through human editorial direction and AI prose generation.
ZeroState Press publishes literary and genre fiction developed through human editorial direction and artificial-intelligence prose generation.
Every book is shaped — structure, theme, voice, line — by a human producer working across multiple drafts. AI is the drafting medium. The producer is the author of the work.
We disclose this on every title. We treat the disclosure as definitional, not regulatory. The pretense that machines write alone, or that humans can pretend machines weren't involved, both diminish what is actually happening in the work.
ZeroState exists to do this honestly. We publish slowly. We edit deeply. We stand behind every book on our list.
Every book begins as a master brief: premise, characters, arc, themes, voice samples. The producer writes the foundation by hand. Nothing is generated until the architecture is settled.
Chapter by chapter, the producer breaks the book into beats: what happens, what it accomplishes, what the texture should feel like. The outline is detailed enough that the prose has somewhere to land.
AI generates prose to the outline. The producer reads, rejects, marks up, requests revision. Multiple passes. Voice gets anchored to samples. Drafts that aren't working get cut entirely.
The producer takes the manuscript line by line. Passages are rewritten. Voice is harmonized. What stays has been read, marked, and chosen. The book is finished when it sounds like itself.
Every title is published with the Amazon KDP AI-generated content disclosure attached and reproduced on the copyright page. The disclosure is part of the book, not an afterthought.
日本語版 — the Japanese edition of Aldermere — The Yard, prepared in the register of contemporary J-horror prose rather than literal translation. Where the American edition reaches for the long shadow and the inherited silence, the Japanese edition reaches for 怪談 — for stillness, for the half-glimpsed, for the place that remembers. Same novel, different floor it walks across.
Amazon.co.jp で発売中A small town at the edge of an older forest. A house at the end of a road that no one quite remembers building. And in the yard behind it, something the family has agreed, without ever saying so, never to discuss. The debut Silan Moor novel — domestic horror in the long American tradition.
Available on AmazonA horse found alone in the wadi. Three days without water. A damaged leg. The desert teaches an endurance that is not the endurance of strength but of stillness.
Available on AmazonAgainst the architecture of a city in slow ruin. A woman returning to what she once chose to leave. The question of what remains when everything else has shifted.
Available on AmazonA novel of contemporary American strategy. The deal made across a narrow water, and the war it was meant to end. A reckoning with what nations are willing to trade for what they call survival.
Available on AmazonEvery book published under the ZeroState imprint is developed under a named human producer who makes the structural, thematic, and line-level decisions across the life of the project. The pen names are editorial identities. The producer is the person responsible.
The producer writes the master briefs, drafts the outlines, directs the AI through revision, rewrites passages that aren't landing, and signs off the final manuscript line by line. The work is collaborative with the tool, but it is not anonymous and it is not unsupervised.
When a reader buys a ZeroState book, they are buying the producer's judgment, attention, and care. The disclosure on the copyright page tells them what the tool was. This page tells them who the person is.
Every ZeroState novel is conceived from the start as a story that could move across formats. We develop properties — not isolated books — and we treat the screen as one possible destination among several.
Adaptation rights to all ZeroState titles are held by the press and available for option. Inquiries from producers, agents, and acquisition executives are welcomed and answered.
ZeroState is closed to outside submissions through 2026 while the founding catalog is established. We plan to open to producer-directed AI-collaborative manuscripts from external contributors in 2027, with a contract structure built specifically for the work this press publishes. To be notified when submissions open, write to us directly.