Available 1st August
The Stranger in Fox’s Clothes
The fox in the title is InkFox: the AI I built to run the business behind my creative life. The stranger is who I’d become while I wasn’t looking.
The bookshelf · two titles
The Stranger in Fox’s Clothes
The honest diary of the year I stopped running my creative life the way I’d been told to, and built an AI to help me run it my own way instead. It’s out of final edit and lands on 1st August 2026, probably sooner. Subscribe free now for the opening chapters, and you’ll be first in line with an early-reader offer the day it lands.
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On the shelf
Two titles on the shelf
The memoir, and a short, practical AI ebook: both real, no invented titles to pad it out.
Available
How to Train Your AI Co-Pilot
A short, practical AI ebook: turn a default AI subscription (Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini) into a trained co-pilot that actually knows your work. The method from paper one, in a quick read you can finish in a sitting, downloadable in PDF and ePub, yours to keep.
£12 · a short, practical AI ebook · PDF + ePub download
Why trust the author
The diary of a life that actually did this
Not a theory book. The numbers behind the story are real and hand-counted.
708workshop attendances taught at the Barn
330individual students · 1 in 3 came back for more
1,000+people taught across the career
12businesses built · one a software company acquired by a global franchise
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The real, unpolished account of building an AI to run a creative business: the parts a case study leaves out.
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The memoir is out of final edit and available 1st August 2026, probably sooner. Subscribe now and the free opening chapters come straight to your inbox ahead of launch.
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What’s it actually about?
The year I stopped running my creative life the way I’d been told to and built an AI, InkFox, to run the business behind it my own way. Honest, first-person, with the messy bits left in.
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1st August 2026, probably sooner. Subscribe and you’ll get the free opening chapters before then, and the early-reader offer the day it lands.
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Available 1st August · from Creative Path 52
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The Stranger in Fox's Clothes is out of final edit and lands 1st August 2026, probably sooner. Subscribe now for the free opening chapters, and you'll be first in line with an early-reader offer the day it's out.
