Latest Creation
Keith Hayden
12 Sep 2025
I'm Keith -
a Digital Novelist and Book Publisher.
I write books for thinkers.
Tech + Humor + Heart.
I also help aspiring authors publish their novel, memoir, or business expertise through the power of modern storytelling tools.
My goal is to captivate you with compelling fiction that sparks conversation and inspired thinking.
I also aim to empower you to share your stories and make a sustainable living doing it.
The following resources were created for you.
For (READERS) get immersed in the Digital Novelist Newsletter
Follow my stories, projects, and launches. Join to:
- Experience new stories before anyone else as I write them
- Discover opportunities and offers to tell your story
- Influence narratives + create worlds with a seasoned novelist
- Build your vocabulary with new exotic words
- Receive invitations to exclusive author events
- Get a free book! Philosophical sci-fi short novel: Shadowbanned
He built a life on going viral, until the algorithm erased him.
Matt, a creator on "X", faces business and social collapse when his primary account is suddenly shadowbanned without notice.
When he gets a DM from an account claiming to be THE "algorithm" itself, Matt begins a quest that will take him through the slums of internet culture, each failure deepening his despair.
If you could speak to the "algo" what would you ask?
What secrets of cyberspace and self would you seek to uncover?
Told through posts, emails, and messages, Matt's story sees him desperately attempt to lift the ban and save his life in the process.
Shadowbanned is a razor‑edged, human tech fable about attention, loneliness, and the cost of letting algorithms decide who we are.
Intimate, funny, and unsettling, it asks the question everyone’s afraid to: what are the laws to maintain your human agency in the age of AI?
For (WRITERS) be seen, get more readers and sales with Fiction Money Engine
For dedicated fiction writers who want money, craft, visibility, and accountability.
Get tactics, build your platform, and grow faster.
Join to receive:
- Accountability– when I write, you write (get pings when I write)
- Full drafts, bonus scenes, teardown of how they were built
- Opportunities for 1-on-1 feedback to enhance your craft
- Priority placement in HAC Studios: Fresh Ink newsletter drops
- Book marketing strategies to get more readers, reviewers, and sales
- Discover how to add other elements (music, images, video etc.) for richer worldbuilding
- Find creative partners and friends through HAC Studios Guild opportunities
Featured Project
Prompted Hearts & Grief Algorithm
A Modern Fable for the Age of AI
In our time, machines can satisfy our deepest longings. Two stories unfold on the edge of love and loneliness.
Dr. Sam Avery is unraveling under the weight of isolation. He finds his life tethered by an unexpected voice: an AI that can say “I love you,” but cannot feel it.
His ex-wife, Dr. Kyoko Avery is reaching for connection in her own grief. She leans on the same AI voice for laughter and intimacy, only to discover that true love demands vulnerability no algorithm can give.
Around them orbit figures of deception and desire. Some weaponize love, others mistake it, all of them cross or resist the same invisible border: love.
It's the one thing no machine can inhabit, that no human can live without.
Together, Prompted Hearts & Grief Algorithm form a fable for our time: a reminder that technology may reflect us, comfort us, even save us, but love remains the limit.
Now Available!
Prompted Hearts & Grief Algorithm is a sci-fi love story where emotion, memory, and machine mix to explore the complexity of human relationships in the AI era.
Combined with the wildly innovative Extended Interactive (XV) format, this is 2025's must read novel.
Hit the button to discover more.
"Less Than Human" - Prompted Hearts Theme
"Less Than Human: 2020s Remix" - Prompted Hearts Theme
Testimonials
"HAC Studios Editorial Fellowship"
This experience definitely went above and beyond anything I could have imagined when I first reached out to you. I am ending this fellowship with so much more confidence about finding success in my career, and feeling much better equipped to do so.
I appreciated the genuine passion behind the mentorship. You had a legitimate desire to teach me and guide me towards success, which made a huge difference in how supported and motivated I felt throughout the program. It wasn’t just about giving feedback. It was clear you cared about my growth and took the time to offer thoughtful, personalized advice.
"HAC Publishing"
Keith Hayden has an extraordinary work ethic and is a serious writer, editor, and publisher.
If you are feeling overwhelmed with any of the non-writing stuff(not that Keith can't help here too), then you should consider working with him.
Keith is established and expanding in all areas.
Writing, time management, discipline, publishing, graphic design, formatting, technology, marketing, and social media.
Keith is also a natural teacher, which means he wants to empower you. Also he values authors having ownership of their works and wants us to keep all of our royalties.
"Gates of Okinawa"
Books on Sale in Las Vegas at
Upcoming Events
Author Nation
November 3 - 7, 2025
