Indie Author Interview - Jules Mourne - Cyberpunk - Thing.pub ARC Platform

She was offline for ten years. She came back and built an anti-piracy platform for authors. Indie author and solo dev Jules Mourne on thing.pub — a free platform for sharing manuscripts without feeding them to AI. Jules walks us through how thing.pub actually works: device fingerprinting, watermarks embedded so they survive being run through a model, a kill switch for anyone poking at the dev console, and a reputation system that holds readers and authors to the same deal. She explains why it will always be free, why every server cost will be public, and why she won't take sponsorships from anyone large enough to attach strings. Plus what's broken about traditional publishing, the tabletop horror campaigns that fed her writing, and the cyberpunk novel she's building around social media as the antagonist. JULES MOURNE thing.pub — sign up and volunteer survey: https://thing.pub Threads: @jules.mourne — 📺 SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/@sidequestpodcast 🎧 LISTEN TO THE AUDIO VERSION All platforms: https://linktr.ee/asidequest 🌐 JOIN THE GUILD Official website / Quest Log: https://www.thesidequestpodcast.com/ 💬 FOLLOW OUR ADVENTURES Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesidequestpodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sidequestpodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/WAPRX9Hbq 🎬 CREDITS Hosts: Slava and Jonathan Editing: CharacterNorth6081 — https://www.instagram.com/parasss.__ Music: HoliznaCC0 Distribution: Transistor.fm — https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=slava Side Quest Book Club is a podcast about books, the people who write them, and the tangents in between. Some links above are referral links. If you sign up through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. #SideQuestBookClub #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity