News & Writing
Book releases, essays, publication news, creative projects, and major updates from Jonah Baird and Clean Lantern Books.
Soulless
Soulless is now available on Kindle, and included at no extra cost with Kindle Unlimited. The paperback edition (ISBN 979-8-18859-63-92) is also live.
Soulless has been entered in the 2026 Kindle Storyteller Award.
A Foreigner at the Kept Boundary
The next Foreigner novel is in development. The manuscript currently exists as the Google Docs prose master; EPUB and paperback production will follow once the manuscript itself is finalized.
Free Horror Reads — September 2026
The First Thorn, a standalone story from the world of Soulless, is now included in a free September horror collection.
Available through October 13, 2026.
Free Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads — September 2026
Clean Lantern Books is participating in a BookFunnel group promotion featuring free science-fiction and fantasy reads from independent authors.
My contribution is The Stillphase, a standalone companion story from the Foreigner series.
If you’re looking for something new to read, you can browse the full collection below.
Nonfiction essays, guest articles, interviews, and other published work will appear here as they are released.
Jonah writes about disability and creative accessibility, AI and authorship, independent publishing, faith and speculative fiction, and the realities of building creative work outside traditional institutions.
“I Was Always Feeling Creative” Now Live at Feeling Creative?
Jonah Baird’s author spotlight “I Was Always Feeling Creative. Generative AI Changed What I Could Finish.” is now live at Feeling Creative?, on how generative AI changed what he was able to finish without changing what he was always trying to create.
“Mercy in the Dark” Now Live at FamilyFiction
Jonah Baird’s guest essay “Mercy in the Dark: Three Principles for Writing Christian Horror Without Making God the Monster” is now live at FamilyFiction, examining three principles for writing Christian horror without making God function as the story’s monster.
“When AI Functions as an Autism Support” Published by Autism Spectrum News
Autism Spectrum News has published Jonah Baird’s essay “When AI Functions as an Autism Support,” exploring how conversational AI can serve as an accessibility and organizational tool for some autistic creators while leaving human judgment, voice, and responsibility intact.
Autism Spectrum News plans to share the article on its social channels the following week.
Clean Lantern Books supports transparent discussion of how creative work is made.
Jonah uses conversational AI as an accessibility and creative-assistance tool while maintaining responsibility for his writing, research, revisions, and published work. His position includes both recognition of the technology's accessibility value and serious concerns about unethical or substitutive uses of generative AI.