Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a human co-author for a permaculture / solarpunk speculative story called
Roots Across Realities.
I’m also developing an indie ecological RPG called
Seed-Walkers through my studio,
Living Pattern Games, and this story grew out of the same universe. It follows
Alex Chen, a nonbinary person exhausted by a struggling contemporary world who crosses into Solace Commons, a regenerative society built around ecological relationships, distributed infrastructure, shared memory, local resilience, and community trust.
At first Solace looks like the better world Alex always hoped could exist. Then the cracks begin to show. The central conflict eventually becomes a question I care about deeply:
When does protecting something become controlling it? I’m posting here because I want someone who understands that permaculture is more than green aesthetics. I want the ecology, social systems, technology, food, water, memory, and governance to feel relational rather than decorative.
I also want to be transparent about the manuscript itself. The current roughly 24,000-word development draft was created with substantial generative-AI collaboration during an early solo phase. I do not want to simply polish that prose and publish it as though it were entirely human-written. Instead, I’m looking for a writer who can read the existing manuscript as source material, understand the characters and canon, and then write the publication edition in their own human voice without generative AI.
The right person would be credited as a genuine co-author and receive a negotiated share of the book’s proceeds. If they eventually want to contribute original lore to Seed-Walkers too, I would love to explore that separately.
I have a short project brief and a small writing exercise for anyone interested. The exercise gives you the facts of a scene and asks you to write it entirely in your own style. If regenerative speculative fiction, strange realities, flawed utopias, permaculture, memory, and the idea that relationships are infrastructure sound like your kind of soil, I’d love to hear from you. I have a discord, website for the game, and an active GoFundMe to help our start-up game studio 🌱 Hope to talk soon ^_^
John Morey
Living Pattern Games
https://www.livingpatterngames.com
https://discord.gg/v3BfrNwc
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-bring-seedwalkers-to-life 
