Zeb Haradon's Blog
October 21, 2025
The Lucky Bucks (from Cousin Calls) is now a GenAi movie
I made a movie out of my story The Lucky Bucks, from the book Cousin Calls. I made it with Generative Ai image and video apps, making it an animation in the style of the painter Vanessa Steinhilb. As far as I know, it is one of the first Schopenhauerian cervine sex comedies made with Ai. It's 27 minutes long and sad.
https://youtu.be/L93jE6zVAgI?si=InB0U...
https://youtu.be/L93jE6zVAgI?si=InB0U...
January 2, 2025
I am using GenAI to turn The Disposable Soma into a series
I'm using GenAI tools to make a series out of my trilogy, The Disposable Soma. I'm not sure how far I'll get, but the plan is for each book to be one season. So far I have four episodes done from season one (of nine planned), you can see them here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr...
I use MidJourney to make the stills, then animate them using either Haiper, Runway, Luma, or Pika. The dialog is from ElevenLabs - I speak all the dialog then convert it to the character voice. The music is mostly from Suno - for Birdsong, I split the stems, use ElevenLabs to convert the audio track to a parrot's voice I cloned, then recombine it with the instrumental track. The only non-AI part is the writing, but I used ChatGPT for most of the Birdsong lyrics.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr...
I use MidJourney to make the stills, then animate them using either Haiper, Runway, Luma, or Pika. The dialog is from ElevenLabs - I speak all the dialog then convert it to the character voice. The music is mostly from Suno - for Birdsong, I split the stems, use ElevenLabs to convert the audio track to a parrot's voice I cloned, then recombine it with the instrumental track. The only non-AI part is the writing, but I used ChatGPT for most of the Birdsong lyrics.
December 2, 2023
My new trilogy is released
A couple weeks ago I published all three books of The Disposable Soma Trilogy. The first one, The Disposable Soma, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN4LPCRV
The whole trilogy is about someone running for president in the mid/late 22nd century. The plot of the first book involves him selecting a super-intelligent, genetically modified, opium addicted parrot as his running mate. It's full of violence, perversity, despair, and drug use. Genre is probably science fiction, humor, political thriller, maybe horror at parts, especially the last in the trilogy (Bubblequake).
If you read my story Karl Is Out of Opium, it is set in the same world. Karl's story happens near the end of the trilogy.
I'm planning to make the first one free as much as I can (I think amazon allows 5 days/3 months), but it's only 99 cents otherwise, and free on Kindle Unlimited.
Ratings/reviews appreciated.
The Disposable Soma
The whole trilogy is about someone running for president in the mid/late 22nd century. The plot of the first book involves him selecting a super-intelligent, genetically modified, opium addicted parrot as his running mate. It's full of violence, perversity, despair, and drug use. Genre is probably science fiction, humor, political thriller, maybe horror at parts, especially the last in the trilogy (Bubblequake).
If you read my story Karl Is Out of Opium, it is set in the same world. Karl's story happens near the end of the trilogy.
I'm planning to make the first one free as much as I can (I think amazon allows 5 days/3 months), but it's only 99 cents otherwise, and free on Kindle Unlimited.
Ratings/reviews appreciated.
The Disposable Soma
