Thing.pub is a sanctuary for unpublished manuscripts—where authors share their work safely, and readers experience stories before the rest of the world.
Hardware-locked access, dynamic watermarking, and direct commenting mean your words stay yours, while giving you deep insight into how readers actually experience them.
A quiet, curated place to read manuscripts that matter, leave honest thoughts without pressure, and be part of a book's journey.
These are the principles I built on, and the commitments I intend to keep—to every author, reader, and professional who comes into this community.
An early look at the platform—toggle between the Author and Reader views to explore the interface.
Design Preview - Interface subject to final changes
Every layer of Thing.pub coordinates to provide robust, uncompromised creative security while cultivating healthy, human connection between community members.
Author Protection at Rest & in Transit
Real Engagement, Quiet & Unobtrusive
A Network Built on Trust and Human Credibility
Whether you are an author, a reader, or a publishing professional. If you want to help shape the future of the platform, join my early adopters!
Take the surveyIndie booksellers, editors, cover artists, illustrators, audiobook narrators, formatters and beyond.
The Directory will launch alongside the platform. If you are a professional who wants to be among the first listed, apply using the links below. A friendly note that an application does not guarantee a listing on Thing.pub, I will be verifying all submissions before including them in our directory to ensure everything is human-made and not supported by GenAI.
Independent booksellers who champion debut authors, host launches, and carry the indie titles.
Developmental editors, line editors, and proofreaders who work directly with indie and traditionally-publishing authors.
Human artists creating original cover art, interior illustrations, and book design.
Professional human voice talent, audiobook narrators, and audio engineers.
I started writing code before Google even existed. In the decades since, I have shipped AAA video games, open source projects, and secured systems at the federal level for some of the largest companies in the world, but my love always remained in storytelling.
With degrees in Business and Computer Science, my career spans more than twenty years of active development. I have led compliance programs across SOC2 and GDPR, and guided organizations through FedRAMP certification. A dozen entrepreneurs have worked with me to launch their businesses, most of which still exist today.
When I got really serious about finally putting my stories into books, the landscape for publishing had evolved so much that I felt a paralysis from anxiety; we as authors still had no real protection for our work. No tool I trusted existed, so I built one.
Thing.pub is an end-to-end encrypted platform where authors and readers can connect to share unpublished stories in a safe, AI-free community. Readers discover and request early, privileged access at various book stages, including Alpha, Beta and ARC.
Manuscripts are end-to-end encrypted (AES-256-GCM) and decrypted only on a reader’s authorized device. Access is hardware-locked to devices you approve, revocable instantly, and can be set to expire. Every reader’s copy carries an invisible, per-reader watermark, and the platform never stores a readable copy of any book.
Never. AI tools, scrapers, and bots are blocked at the infrastructure level, and there’s no readable copy to harvest in the first place.
Yes, core access and every protection feature are free, always. The only paid things are optional cosmetics and pay-what-you-want support.
Join the waitlist and hop into Discord. The closed early access opens September 2026 and rolls out in limited waves. Access is invitation-only and every account is reviewed individually.
Join the waitlist: you will hear from me occasionally as things progress, including early access notifications and the public launch announcement. Let's build a new path for our community!