Aurelie Dore Studio

An independent studio for books, story-worlds, essays, and studio-held creative work.

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Entries into the studio's work. Choose by what you are in the mood to read.

Historical Fiction

Becoming Caribbean

Start with Discovery 1600s.

A long sequence of Caribbean history told as rupture, adaptation, reckoning, and legacy. Not nostalgia. Not costume drama. A world being made.

Free taste: Bitter Mark — a short story set in the Discovery 1600s world. Test the voice before committing to a longer work.

Political Space Opera Romance

Concord Seryth

Start with Abacus and Crimson Helm.

In a civilisation built on alignment, romance is the ultimate conspiracy. Competence porn at the edge of systemic collapse.

Essays in Book Form

History in Beta

Start with Charlemagne's Gambit.

Essays on history, empire, trade, and power through sharp, accessible analysis. Global systems and contested narratives, seen from the ground up.

Musings in a Quiet Moment

Start with Reflections on Stillness and Memory.

Reflective essays on stillness, memory, ageing, solitude, and the small rituals that help a person keep going.

Eternal Grounds

Start with The Cost of Bright Things.

Brief fables for the life you are still learning to read. Small stories that turn the everyday into something worth pausing over.

Technical Field Guides

The Forgotten Lessons

Start with Resource Discipline for AI Teams.

Six short field guides bringing decades of systems discipline to small AI teams. By Patrice Price.

Free taste: The Meeting Guide — the questions AI teams should ask, drawn from all six guides. Use it in the room before the decisions are made.