Rolin Crowe

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I studied propaganda under Randall Bytwerk, one of the leading scholars on Nazi and East German persuasion. The central lesson: people believe what confirms what they already think. You don't change minds. You curate what they see.

Before that, I spent years in morning radio, building scenarios out of nothing but audio. Theater of the mind. Make listeners imagine what isn't there, believe in people who don't exist. After radio, a decade in digital media, watching platforms stop being tools for connection and become something else.

Fractured Oath is the architecture of that transformation, written as a thriller. It is the first book in The Fractured Series.

I live in Michigan.
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Viewing Third Person Limited as a Social Contract

I am sitting about 23 days out from launching my novel. Looking back at this absolutely brutal year I've been grinding through, the biggest shift in the manuscript came down to narrative distance. I spent over a decade producing for a massive morning radio. Handled five different websites and a subscriber database pushing eighty thousand. That specific corporate grind hammers home this one thing y Read more of this blog post »
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“Her loyalty oath is to a government that no longer exists. She keeps it anyway.”
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“For twenty-seven years, she's been building the architecture of America's collapse. Not as an accident, but as an answer.”
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“Her loyalty oath is to a government that no longer exists. She keeps it anyway.”
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“For twenty-seven years, she's been building the architecture of America's collapse. Not as an accident, but as an answer.”
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