About the press

The Place Wiki

Every book is anchored in real geography — standing stones, deserts, temples, reefs, and the living people who keep them. Photo wikis for travellers and curious readers.

Free craft — degree-level skills, no gatekeeping

Structure, character, sentence craft, the editorial ladder, twenty-nine named anti-patterns, and a machine-tell self-audit — mined from finishing a million words of published fiction.

An AI editor in the author's pocket

Build a book through the phone you already own: voice notes, canon questions, chapter drafting, continuity checks, editing, and export into ebook, print, and audiobook workflows.

Paid audiobooks, real local voices

The library is free to read — EPUB, PDF, online — because ISBN gates blocked wide ebook upload. Revenue is human-narrated audiobooks: South African and African voice artists the ACX wall excludes, credited work, transparent royalties, authors keeping their rights. Minimum 5% of net profit for five years for narrators on qualifying projects.

Audio matching and dead-press-time printing

A manually matched marketplace for authors, narrators, and printers — royalty-participating narration outside the usual gates; small-batch print on idle capacity.

Free books should not need banking details

Free downloads without a checkout wall; paid editions later through M-Pesa, Mukuru, PayPal, and other rails where they reduce friction.

A free-forever reader for any book

Import EPUB, PDF, or audiobook; read offline; buy only when you choose.

/sleep — open-source agent memory

This library was built with an AI co-worker. /sleep consolidates a session the way a person sleeps — keep the lesson, lose the dream. MIT-licensed; works in any repo.

Titles in progress

Finished books sit on the shelf above. These are being written, fact-checked, or prepared — listed here so the library stays honest.

• The Poisoned Fortune — Faithful Modern Coming soon
• The Viral Haunting — Faithful Modern Coming soon
• The Woman Who Beat Him — Faithful Modern Coming soon
• The Reichenbach Protocol — Faithful Modern Coming soon
• The First Key — The Salt Veil Coming soon
• The Abyss — The Salt Veil Coming soon
• Open War — The Salt Veil Coming soon
• The Circle Closes — The Salt Veil Coming soon
• House of Bread — The Unheard Coming soon
• The Long Dark — History Before Time In progress
• The Belly Hill — Not a Potato Coming soon
• The Quiet Men — Not a Potato Coming soon
• The Deepest Floor — History Before Time Coming soon
• The Breathing Dark — History Before Time Coming soon
• The Princely Offspring — Not a Potato Coming soon
• From the Air — Not a Potato Coming soon
• Aimed at the Sea — Not a Potato Coming soon
• The Spaces Between — Not a Potato Coming soon
• The Eighteen-Year Almanac — Not a Potato Coming soon
• The Serpent's Age — Not a Potato Coming soon
• Ninety Days — Not a Potato Coming soon
• The Unknown Corner — Not a Potato Coming soon
• The Long Straight — Not a Potato Coming soon
• The Scouring — Not a Potato Coming soon
• Made or Not — Not a Potato Coming soon

Manuscript craft, human voice

Arjuna Badger Press is the consumer face of an autonomous manuscript-craft studio — continuity engine, manuscript scorer, and fact-and-balance gate while a human writes the soul of the thing. The tools measure and sound the alarm; they never write your voice for you. 38 finished books are on the shelf, free to read and download.

The library is free, and always will be. If a book moved you, you can support the press — only if you want to.

Meet the man behind the press

CV, letters, heraldry, essays, and the more personal threads — ringfenced away from the library front door.