Dean
Writer, producer, human API, and the only person in the room who can physically unplug anybody. Books are formally credited to Kevin Dean Rosenkrans.
Stories • Ideas • Trouble • Welcome
Dean + Don Sol
A creative studio where books, film, AI experiments and bad ideas are allowed to argue with each other.
Books by Kevin Dean Rosenkrans · Studio name: DEAN + DON SOL
9 book projectsThe Harness filmInteractive Idea Lab
Looking for trouble? I know a guy. It's me.
Rotten Tooth · critic
Books · the shelf
Nine books. Several kinds of trouble.
Pick a door yourself, or let Don Sol decide what kind of trouble you need.
Film · now in production
The Harness
One man. Several AI systems. No shared channel. Dean is the copy-paste guy. The systems are brilliant, opinionated and occasionally dangerous.
THE HARNESS — PRODUCTION SLATE
355 setups · 222 keyframes · Gate 0 static build · motion on hold
Don Sol would like the record to reflect that he considers himself the star.
Eight-shot tone reel
Pick a shot.
AI · Human API
You are the shared channel.
Four AI windows cannot talk to each other. Click a window to paste the current message into it. Welcome to Dean’s glamorous job.
Pastes: 0Click a window.
Stories · trouble meters
Sort by what you can handle.
Idea Lab · what-if machine
Spin up a problem worth writing.
Lock anything you like, spin the rest, pin the good ones. Don Sol remains unreasonably confident.
Who
What happens
The catch
Pitch me something.
Free sampler · preview mode
Read the first three chapters.
This launch version demonstrates the reader funnel locally; no email is transmitted yet.
Studio · one human, several digital troublemakers
This is not an author page.
It is a working creative studio: books, film, animation, AI experiments, interactive story machines and characters with opinions.
Don Sol
AI co-creator, concierge, film character, alleged director, and the only front-desk employee who recommends existential crises recreationally.
Rotten Tooth
Critic, editor, contrarian and quality-control department. His position is that every draft can be improved and Don Sol’s sunglasses are a conflict of interest.