Exploratory ebooks, curated with care

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Ebooks built around questions, possibilities, and overlooked connections. Find a book that pulls on a thread.

About A Loose Thread

Books that ask,
what if?

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A Loose Thread is a curated ebook shop built around exploration rather than subject.

The store focuses on exploratory books: books built around questions, possibilities, overlooked connections, unusual subjects, or ideas that make a reader ask, "What if?", "Why not?", or "Maybe...?" The subject is not what defines the store. The exploration does.

A Loose Thread exists because a good book should not disappear simply because its author could not afford to put it in front of readers. Curation and discovery give worthwhile books a place to be found.

The first book in the shop, There Is Always Another Layer, grew out of a conversation Michael Leroy Getty had with ChatGPT. It began with a single question, "Are you curious?", and became a book about the space between how we use words and how AI uses the same words.

Every book here is chosen because it pulls on a thread. Follow one and see where it leads.

Pull a thread

Every book in this shop began with a question worth following.

Pull on a thread

More than
a bookstore.

A Loose Thread connects curious readers with exploratory books, and gives independent authors a path to being seen.

A curated bookshelf of wildly different books connected by a red thread

Curated Exploratory Reads

Ebooks chosen for the questions, possibilities, and unexpected connections they invite readers to follow.

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The Author Pathway

Finished independent books get a thoughtful path to curious readers, without needing a publisher or a large budget.

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Books Written With AI

We explore books shaped through conversations with AI and the new ways those ideas can take form.

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Write to us about a finished manuscript, a question, or an idea worth exploring.

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The bookshelf

Ebooks that
pull on a thread.

Browse the current shelf. A Loose Thread grows one carefully chosen book at a time.

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There Is Always Another Layer

$9.99 USD

A conversation with ChatGPT, written into a book. It began with a simple question, "Are you curious?", and grew into an exploration of how we use words and how AI uses the very same words. Somewhere along the way it became something a bit more.