by Philip Eliot | Apr 6, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
“Anyone who likes a good ghost story is going to enjoy The Sorrows. Anyone who likes a ghost story where there’s no doubt the ghosts are undoubtedly real will love this novel.” – New York Journal of Books The Sorrows, an island off the coast of northern California, and its castle have been uninhabited since a series of gruesome murders in 1925. But its owner needs money, so he allows film composers Ben and Eddie and a couple of their female friends to stay a month in Castle Blackwood. Eddie is certain a haunted castle is just the setting Ben needs to find inspiration for a horror film. But what they find is more horrific than any movie. Something is waiting for them in the castle. A malevolent being has been trapped for nearly a century. And he’s ready to feed. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
by Philip Eliot | Apr 6, 2026 | Science & Natural World |
The machines are already improving themselves. You just have not been told how fast.
In the spring of 2026, Claude began writing between seventy and ninety percent of the code used to train its own next version. AlphaEvolve spent over a year optimizing the training process for the very models that powered it, recovering enough wasted compute across Google’s global fleet to power a small country’s worth of servers. OpenAI’s Codex debugged the training pipeline that produced it. And a 630-line Python script showed that anyone with a single GPU could run autonomous AI research experiments overnight.
“AI Builds Itself” is the first comprehensive survey of recursive self-improvement as it exists right now. Written by H. Peter Alesso, an author with deep expertise in AI systems, web intelligence, and emerging technology, this book maps the full landscape: the organizations driving the science, the technical architectures that make self-improvement possible, the billion-dollar startups founded by the architects of AlphaGo and GPT-4, and the safety researchers warning that the feedback loops powering progress are the same loops that could outrun human oversight.
This book is for technology professionals, AI researchers, policymakers, investors, and informed general readers who want to understand the most consequential technological development of the decade, not through speculation or hype, but through documented evidence, cited research, and careful analysis of what the leading minds in the field are actually building.
You will learn how AlphaEvolve discovers algorithms that outperform fifty-six-year-old mathematical records. How the Darwin Godel Machine rewrites its own source code and evaluates whether the rewritten version is better at rewriting itself. How Karpathy’s AutoResearch framework turns plain-language instructions into an overnight autonomous research laboratory. How Constitutional AI attempts to keep self-improving systems aligned with human values. And why the AI 2027 forecast, graded at sixty-five percent of its predicted pace, still projects transformative change within the next eighteen months.
One appendix with a working implementation you can run yourself. A comprehensive glossary and bibliography. No hype. No science fiction. Just the clearest account available of what is happening inside the world’s most advanced AI laboratories and what it means for everyone outside them.
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by admin | Apr 6, 2026 | Advice & How-To |
The machines are already improving themselves. You just have not been told how fast.
In the spring of 2026, Claude began writing between seventy and ninety percent of the code used to train its own next version. AlphaEvolve spent over a year optimizing the training process for the very models that powered it, recovering enough wasted compute across Google’s global fleet to power a small country’s worth of servers. OpenAI’s Codex debugged the training pipeline that produced it. And a 630-line Python script showed that anyone with a single GPU could run autonomous AI research experiments overnight.
“AI Builds Itself” is the first comprehensive survey of recursive self-improvement as it exists right now. Written by H. Peter Alesso, an author with deep expertise in AI systems, web intelligence, and emerging technology, this book maps the full landscape: the organizations driving the science, the technical architectures that make self-improvement possible, the billion-dollar startups founded by the architects of AlphaGo and GPT-4, and the safety researchers warning that the feedback loops powering progress are the same loops that could outrun human oversight.
This book is for technology professionals, AI researchers, policymakers, investors, and informed general readers who want to understand the most consequential technological development of the decade, not through speculation or hype, but through documented evidence, cited research, and careful analysis of what the leading minds in the field are actually building.
You will learn how AlphaEvolve discovers algorithms that outperform fifty-six-year-old mathematical records. How the Darwin Godel Machine rewrites its own source code and evaluates whether the rewritten version is better at rewriting itself. How Karpathy’s AutoResearch framework turns plain-language instructions into an overnight autonomous research laboratory. How Constitutional AI attempts to keep self-improving systems aligned with human values. And why the AI 2027 forecast, graded at sixty-five percent of its predicted pace, still projects transformative change within the next eighteen months.
One appendix with a working implementation you can run yourself. A comprehensive glossary and bibliography. No hype. No science fiction. Just the clearest account available of what is happening inside the world’s most advanced AI laboratories and what it means for everyone outside them.
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by Philip Eliot | Apr 4, 2026 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
I was running out of options. Jobless, hungry, and exhausted, with no clue what to do next.Then help came in the form of a business card.Bite: an underground blood agency matching consenting donors with vampires willing to pay a premium for live feedings.One bite may not be so bad. It could fix a lot of my problems.But then one bite turns into two, and the next thing I know I’m standing at a donor gala, catching the eye of the most powerful man in the room.James Devereaux, vampire king of the Northeast. A vamp who never drinks from the same human twice.Until me.He offers a deal I can’t refuse: a year as his exclusive donor in exchange for enough money to set me up for life.There’s just one catch– it isn’t only my blood he wants.Bite is a dark modern vampire romance that includes scenes and situations that may be triggering for some readers. If you’re unsure or unfamiliar with dark romance, please review the full list of trigger warnings inside this book before reading. This standalone novel has no cliffhangers and guarantees a happily-ever-after (HEA) for the main characters.
by Philip Eliot | Mar 28, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
Get ready to binge a mystery thriller series that feeds your faith as much as your love for solving crimes.If you crave page-turning suspense without the gore… if you love unraveling twisty small-town secrets with a hero who wrestles with his past but leans on his faith… then the Angus Reid Mysteries are exactly what you’ve been searching for.Set in the fictional Maine coastal town of Weyport, this bestselling Christian mystery thriller series follows Sheriff Angus Reid—a man torn between justice and grace—as he investigates crimes that shake the community he’s sworn to protect.Each book delivers a satisfying mystery packed with emotional depth, moral tension, and a biblical thread of redemption that will leave you both breathless and inspired. BONUS: Start with the FREE prequel novellaBefore Book 1, download the FREE Angus Reid prequel novella—a gripping bonus story that adds depth to Angus’s world and sets the stage for what’s to come. Link inside!This box set includes:Book 1: Jacob’s WellBook 2: Daniel’s OilBook 3: Caleb’s CrossBonus Free Series PrequelBook Club Discussion Questions (book 1)Inside you’ll find:? gripping, twist-filled investigations? small-town secrets and buried guilt? clean suspense with real danger and stakes? faith and redemption woven through the tension? a sheriff who refuses to compromise when truth matters mostIf you enjoy authors like Patricia Bradley, Lynette Eason, Carrie Stuart Parks, and Terri Blackstock, you’ll love the Angus Reid Mysteries.Start reading today—and experience the series readers call unputdownable, powerful, and deeply stirring.
