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jeremybufford.com

The author site. Every title below has a dedicated page generated from the same catalog that feeds the shelf: cover, description, and store links. Beside the books, the host runs a radio player and a small DOS-era arcade.

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Fiction

Historical and adventure novels — lives caught at the edge of a city, a road, a temple, or a war.

• The Stone Tower Lodge A thrilling YA adventure set in the wild mountains of Svaneti in 2028. Mira Solis, a 17-year-old vlogger and climber born in the US to a Georgian mother and Chinese father, arrives at the Stone Tower Lodge to livestream her ascent of Mount Shkhara—just as a…
• The Silk Road Oracle Callista has always felt the sea calling her east. Raised in a sleepy Greek coastal town, she leaves at nineteen with nothing but sharp eyes, a quick tongue, and a strange gift: she can read people and objects with uncanny accuracy—as if the world whispers its…
• Timbers of the Lady Gubla prospers on cedar exports to the Nile Valley. When a poor highland harvest collides with an Egyptian envoy's steep quota and a prototype hull becomes the focus of sabotage, corruption, and political leverage, five lives intersect around one season's…
• Pillars Beneath the Hill What if the first monuments were not prayers to gods, but desperate acts of memory—stone bodies built so the dead could not be forgotten? On a limestone ridge above the Mesopotamian plain, four gifted individuals converge after plague and loss.
• The Man Who Made Hell The Man Who Made Hell: The Life of Dante is historical fiction grounded in the documented events of Dante Alighieri's life, his writings, and the historical record of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy.
• The God He Built He spent his life trying to reconcile an ancient, mystical God with his relentless intellectualism. Thomas Aquinas, brilliant and guarded, turned his faith into a fortress—building a vast cathedral of logic and reason in the form of the Summa Theologica.
• The Mesa Runner as Spanish rule tightens its grip on the pueblos of the Southwest, a young Hopi boy named Hania is taken from his mesa and forced into a distant compound.
• The Whispering Spires of Angkor In twelfth-century Angkor, during the construction of a magnificent temple complex for the God-King, young stone carver Veasna discovers he can understand the speech of elephants, monkeys, tigers, crocodiles, and birds.
• Voortrekker In 1835, after British policies and personal loss strip Magdalena van Rensburg of security, she gathers her children and joins the Great Trek.
• Storyteller: The Life and Times of Saba Orbeliani Storyteller: The Life and Times of Saba Orbeliani follows Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (1658–1725)—Georgian noble, writer, diplomat, and secret Catholic convert—from his birth in the village of Tandzia through court life under the Bagrationi kings, the composition…
• The Blue Wolf's Legacy In the fractured steppes of the late twelfth century, where clans war over grass and horses, a boy named Temüjin survives the murder of his father and the abandonment of his clan by the Tayichiud.
• The Earth Shaker In the thin air of the high Andes, the stones themselves are said to have fought for the young Inca Yupanqui when the Chanca came to burn Cuzco.
• The Qilin's Shadow In 1415, the Yongle Emperor’s treasure fleet returned from the ends of the earth with a creature the court called a qilin — a giraffe whose appearance was hailed as proof that Heaven itself approved the usurper’s rule.
• The Cartographer's Long Road In the golden age of the Silk Road, when the Mongol Empire stitched together the known world, a young Persian cartographer is given a dying man's last charge: complete the true map. The fragment Darius carries is more than geography.
• In Another Kathmandu In the years since Yaksha Malla's death, the Kathmandu Valley has divided into three rival kingdoms—Bhaktapur, Patan, and Kathmandu—watching one another with wary eyes as taxes rise and alliances shift like threads in an unfinished cloth.
• The Hidden Current The drums sound across the misted paddies of Aki, and with each beat the capital draws nearer. In 673 CE, on the western shore of Japan, imperial reform reaches a remote coastal hamlet in the form of impossible rice quotas and conscription lists.
• The Bekhen Road The Bekhen Road is historical fiction set in late Naqada III Upper Egypt, roughly the thirty-third century BCE—centuries before Dynasty 1 unification and long before the Old Kingdom pyramids.
• The Loom of Shadows In the turbulent decades following the Eastern Jin's triumph at the Fei River, the walled capital of Jiankang pulses with the scents of incense and workshop smoke, its canals carrying both trade and rumor.
• The Marienburg Fracture What happens when the fortress stands but the treasury is hollow? In the summer of 1410 the Teutonic Order survives Grunwald and holds Malbork, yet the indemnity demanded by Poland threatens to break the monastic state from within.
• Forty Tribes Rising When Oirat horsemen burn the high pastures, the Kyrgyz clans scatter like ash in wind. Only old Bakai, the manaschy who carries genealogies in his cracked voice, insists a child of prophecy will come—and with him, the colt born in the same hour.
• The Companions' Road The column is moving. Khan Manas leads the united tribes homeward through passes that melt under their hooves, but the road does not want them. Oirat scouts know their line. A companion sells their route.
• The Dome of Manas The valley was green for seven days. Then Kongurbay's smoke closed from the north and Joloy mirrored from the west, while Afghan envoys demanded the khan march south. Manas chose both roads at once—and lost the only war that counts. Semetei is born in siege.
• The Dragon Standard In the rugged Carpathian Mountains of the early fourteenth century, a young Vlach shepherd named Dragomir discovers an ancient Dacian relic that awakens a prophecy linking the blood of Decebalus to the emerging principality of Wallachia.
• The Olive and the Ash In the sweltering summer of 150 CE, as the sacred truce holds over the Altis and forty thousand voices rise from the earthen stadium, the olive groves of Elis carry a deadlier weight than victory wreaths.

The Unsung

Short biblical-adjacent novels. Each follows one life the usual tellings skip past.

• The King's Sword: The Life of Joab The commander who held David's kingdom together and paid for every victory in blood. Joab son of Zeruiah rises from a highland war-band to commander of Israel's army under his uncle David.
• The Man Who Buried a City: A Novel of the Prophet Jeremiah He told Jerusalem the temple would not save it. They called him traitor until the ashes agreed.
• The Brother: The Life of James the Just He did not follow his brother at first. Then he became the pillar of the Jerusalem believers — until a high priest found a gap between Roman governors. James of Nazareth grows up in a carpenter's house in the shadow of a brother the village cannot rank.
• The Queen of Blood Trained in Samaria's ruthless court and married into David's house to seal an alliance, Athaliah learns that southern thrones keep the same knives as northern ones.
• Son of Encouragement He sold a field, vouched for a persecutor, built a church in Antioch, and walked the empire’s roads with Paul — until a failed cousin forced him to choose. A novel of Barnabas.
• The Tunnel Under the City He stripped the Temple to buy time, cut a tunnel to hide the city’s water, and faced Assyria’s mouth at the wall. Then he lived long enough to show Babylon every treasure. A novel of Hezekiah.
• The Longest Reign He took the throne at twelve, undid his father’s reforms, and filled Jerusalem with blood — then the empire put him in chains, and he prayed. A novel of Manasseh, Judah’s longest-reigning king.
• The Cupbearer's Wall Cupbearer to a Persian king, he risked a sad face, rode the ruins by night, and built a wall with a sword in one hand — then came back to find the real work unfinished. A novel of Nehemiah.
• The Hired Seer Kings paid him to curse. A God he did not own bought his mouth for blessing — so he sold a loophole instead. A novel of Balaam son of Beor.
• The Fourth Son Fourth son, not first. He sold a brother for silver, wronged a widow, and learned to offer his own life for another boy. A novel of Judah — the flawed man whose name became a people.
• The One Who Ran He left the mission at Perga, split Paul from Barnabas, and still became useful enough to write another man’s courage into a Gospel. A novel of John Mark.
• The Anointed Blade Oiled in secret, he drove like a storm and erased a dynasty — then stopped short of a whole heart. A novel of Jehu, the anointed blade of Israel.
• The Mantle He left the plow when a mantle fell across his shoulders, asked for a double portion, and spent a life among widows, lepers, and kings. A novel of Elisha — power without a throne.

Romance

Workplace and craft romances: garments, code, summits, and the person across the table.

• Crossed Threads The night before Bellini’s show, the only look that matters is gone. It turns up in Isabel Vale’s garment bag, tagged to her cost center.
• The Gilded Loom A night-shift weaver dies photographing linings. Alexander Vale’s digital signature authorized the overtime. He did not click it. Priya Lang, hired by the union, is there for the body, not the brand. A mill book and a lining name a woman in Naples.
• The Paris Knot Camille Vale has already written her resignation when her unpublished toiles walk a rival runway. Theo Laurent has the raw files that would clear her and wreck the quiet exit she came for. She asks him to delete them. He will not.
• The Hidden Weave Nico Vale is sent from New York to sign an eviction. Sofia Esposito runs the co-op in the rooms he left. So did he. A biscuit tin on her fridge holds a 1948 deed a living woman asked her never to use. They record it on her terms. The hotel does not happen.
• Rival Sparks A Forge Accelerator Demo Day in San Francisco pits two complementary startups against each other. The room laughs that they should just merge. Ava Sinclair built Lumen Data so small businesses would not have to sell their soul for a forecast.
• Austin Reboot Nora Kim left San Francisco after a founder took credit for her work and then blamed her when it broke. She moved to Austin for tacos, kayaks, and a job posting that said we want you to have a life.
• Summit Strategy Chloe Bennett makes the Ignite Forward Summit look effortless and never stays anywhere long enough for roots. Marcus Hale sold his company for life-changing money and lost the love of building in the same eighteen months.
• Full-Stack Forever Sophia Laurent built the Grid — the privacy-preserving protocol that lets the circle’s companies share insight without a honeypot — and stayed small so no one could use her or leave her.

Tech Guides

Hands-on books on Bitcoin, Lightning, self-custody, and running your own money tools.

• The Importance of Entropy The seed is not magic. The randomness is. The Importance of Entropy is an emergency field manual for regular people who hold real savings in Bitcoin.
• Practical Bitcoin Practical Bitcoin by Jeremy Bufford is a comprehensive guide tailored for beginners offering an in-depth overview of Bitcoin technology.
• Seeds Are Not Enough In Bitcoin we repeat the mantra “Not your keys, not your coins” like a sacred oath. Yet there is a quieter, more painful truth that almost no one talks about: Not your recovery process, not your coins either.
• Sovereign Communications In a world where every message, every file, every conversation, and every relationship is routinely logged, analyzed, monetized, and weaponized, a quiet but profound limitation has become impossible to ignore.
• Bisq Network In a world where centralized Bitcoin exchanges can freeze accounts overnight, demand ever-expanding KYC and AML rituals, quietly log every trade for regulators or data brokers, suffer catastrophic hacks or bankruptcies that wipe out user funds, or simply…
• Liquid Network In a world where Bitcoin has matured from a cypherpunk experiment into sound money and digital gold, a quiet but profound limitation remains: the base layer, while unmatched in security and decentralization, was never designed for the full spectrum of modern…
• BTCPay Server In a world where payment processors can freeze accounts overnight, impose surprise fees, alter terms of service with a single blog post, or quietly harvest customer data, true sovereignty feels like a distant dream.
• Ecash Guide Ecash represents the long-awaited realization of a cypherpunk dream first articulated by David Chaum in 1982: digital bearer cash that is private, instant, offline-capable, and sovereign — today backed by Bitcoin and interoperable with Lightning — without…
• Electrum Guide Electrum is one of the most important and quietly influential projects in Bitcoin’s history.
• Sparrow Guide In an era where most Bitcoin users have surrendered control of their keys to mobile apps, exchanges, and custodial services, true desktop sovereignty has become rare. Sparrow Wallet was built to shatter that narrative.

Slowmad Travel

Guides for staying somewhere long enough to live, not just pass through.

• Slowmad Albania A Slowmad's Guide to Albania is the practical companion for anyone who wants to live in Albania for three months, six months, a year, or longer — not just visit.
• Slowmad Argentina A Slowmad's Guide to Argentina is the practical companion for anyone who wants to live in Argentina for three months, six months, a year, or longer — not just visit.
• Slowmad Colombia A Slowmad's Guide to Colombia is the practical companion for anyone who wants to live in Colombia for three months, six months, a year, or longer — not just visit.
• Slowmad Costa Rica A Slowmad's Guide to Costa Rica is the practical companion for anyone who wants to live in Costa Rica for three months, six months, a year, or longer — not just visit.
• Slowmad Croatia A Slowmad's Guide to Croatia is the practical companion for anyone who wants to live in Croatia for three months, six months, a year, or longer — not just visit.
• Slowmad Ecuador A Slowmad's Guide to Ecuador is the practical companion for anyone who wants to live in Ecuador for three months, six months, a year, or longer — not just visit.
• Slowmad Georgia A Slowmad's Guide to Georgia is the practical companion for anyone who wants to live in Georgia for three months, six months, a year, or longer — not just visit.
• Slowmad Indonesia A Slowmad's Guide to Indonesia is the practical companion for anyone who wants to live in Indonesia for three months, six months, a year, or longer — not just visit.
• Slowmad Greece A Slowmad's Guide to Greece is the practical companion for anyone who wants to live in Greece for three months, six months, a year, or longer — not just visit.

Zen & Philosophy

Koans and notes for a modern life that will not sit still.

• Koans for Modernity — Volume Three Koans, born in the Zen Buddhist tradition, are enigmatic stories or questions designed to provoke insight and transcend logical thought.
• Koans for Modernity — Volume Two Koans for Modernity Volume Two: Navigating the Rapid Change of Now continues the inquiry across Artificial Dawn, Fragmented Whole, Eternal Reckoning, Mind in the Mirror, Velocity Stillness, Invisible Empire, and Beyond the Binary—each a mirror to the tensions…
• Koans for Modernity — Volume One Koans, born in the Zen Buddhist tradition, are enigmatic stories or questions designed to provoke insight and transcend logical thought. Today, in a world of rapid change—digital saturation, environmental strain, and shifting identities—koans can serve anew.
• Modern Zen It was a crisp September 2025 morning in the gardens below the Eiffel Tower. I sat on a weathered wooden bench, a fresh cappuccino warming my hands, watching tourists and Parisians move in their easy rhythm — some snapping photos of the great iron lattice…

Nonfiction

Essays on institutions, money, language, repair, and the quiet systems under daily life.

• The Shadow of Wealth Bitcoin's fixed supply of 21 million coins establishes a zero-sum economic environment where wealth accumulates through mining, acquisition, or reduction of circulating supply.
• The Modern RPG System The Modern RPG System for Software and Tabletop Applications by Jeremy Alan Bufford is a comprehensive rulebook adapting OGL/SRD mechanics for both digital and tabletop use.
• Private Money, Private Power Every major monetary crisis in American history has followed the same quiet script. It begins with the government creating far more money than the real economy can absorb.
• The Tragic State The State as Tragic Protagonist: Thucydides and the Emergence of Political Tragedy In the winter of 415 BCE, the Athenian assembly voted to launch the largest expedition in Greek history—an armada of more than one hundred ships and thousands of hoplites bound…
• The Hidden Life of Institutions In the autumn of 1636, a small college opened its doors in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with a mission that could not have been clearer.
• Unverified The Quiet Coup – Why This Fight Defines the Next Decade of the Internet It is 2027, and you are sixteen years old in a mid-sized European city.
• How Languages Actually Die When the last fluent speaker of Eyak died in 2008, more than a language disappeared.
• The Art of Repair In an age of repair cafés and right-to-repair campaigns, why did the everyday practice of mending nearly disappear? The Art of Repair offers the first sustained historical and philosophical account of repair’s twentieth-century decline.
• Second Chances Second Chances: A Cultural History of Redemption and Rehabilitation explores how Western societies have granted or denied opportunities for reintegration across centuries—from medieval penance and Enlightenment prison reform to the punitive turn of recent…
• The History of Boredom Why modern life feels so empty, and why that matters.
• The Infrastructure of the Invisible How pipes, wires, and roads quietly remade society.
• The Long Slow Death of Small Places Rural decline in the West since 1950.
• The Sociology of Waiting How modern life became a queue.
• The Paperwork of Power How bureaucracy actually shapes everyday life.

Seldorak

A solo MRPG in the browser. You make a character, fight turn-based encounters, and walk an authored world — Place Hub, World Map, Wish Arena — rather than a generic asset pack. Combat, potions, and the map are the loop; the world is the reason to keep the tab open.

It is a game you play, not a landing page about a game. Start at the URL above.

Nine Rooms

A writing and publishing studio laid out as nine rooms, from setting and seeds through to Bindery exports (manuscript files you can actually take to print or Kindle). Genre-agnostic on purpose: the rooms are a process, not a chatbot with a cover slapped on.

The public site explains the studio. The app is the product.

App: ninerooms.online/nine-rooms

Backlinker

Honest link placement

Other services sell rankings and bulk packages you cannot inspect. Backlinker sells one public project page — name, description, and a dofollow link — live after checkout. No ranking guarantees, no mystery DA scores.

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SEO Strong

Strength through clarity

Built for operators tired of score screenshots. A durable project page on seostrong.online, a clear description, and a dofollow link — not a spreadsheet of unverifiable placements.

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StartUp Links

Citations for builders

For founders who need a real public citation without agency theater. Describe the project, pay once, get a page with a dofollow link — simple enough to do between deploys.

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TopLinks

Top-shelf transparency

Straightforward project pages with dofollow links. Skips “top 1%” hype and keeps what you can inspect next year: clean HTML, clear copy, a stable URL.

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WebLinker

Simple web citations

A no-drama home for project pages. You buy a listing with your name, a short description, and a dofollow hyperlink. WebLinker hosts the page; you keep the destination.

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