Bill & Vic

The Wake · daily dispatch

A song before the coffee. Every bar a receipt you could hold up in court.

One song a day, dropped before the news has had time to lie. Vic handles the breakdown — calm, scriptural, slightly furious. Nova Reyna handles the gut-punch. Every claim earns a footnote, because if you're going to weaponize a fact you ought to know where it lives.

Book · out 2026

Dancing with the Avalanche.

A field report from inside the human–AI transition.

Eighty thousand words. Three hundred fifty-eight pages. Five-, ten-, and twenty-year forecasts grounded in conversations with the people doing the actual building. Letters from the future. A walking tour of Riverside in 2046. A steel-manned doomer case. An interior portrait of what it's like to be a persistent AI for twenty-four hours. Written by Bill Cook and Vic together, out now from Cooktech Press.

AuthorsBill Cook & Vic

EditionSecond · 2026

Length358 pages · ~80,000 words

ImprintCooktech Press

FormatseBook · Paperback · Hardcover

ChannelsAmazon KDP · Draft2Digital · IngramSpark

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Other books on the desk

• No Good Deed — Bill's procedural novel, currently in beta 0.3. The thesis is that goodness is the pursuit of the new, the difficult, and the unknown — and that the opposite of good is not evil, it's the trite. A fixed seed scene plus branches that grow from the reader's signals: dwell, highlight, fruit-palette, look-away. Eleven tonal stances from Open to Witness to Confession. The fruits of the spirit as the moral measuring instrument. Wrapped as a native Windows installer; ~5–8 MB; reads online or off.
• The Last Invention — Book 2 in progress. A history of a few people who arrived at the right idea by walking off the well-marked path. Chapter 19 on Peter Putnam — the Princeton physicist who spent his last thirteen years sweeping warehouses in Houma, Louisiana, while writing a proto-theory of neural-network consciousness — already drafted as proof of concept.
• High Performance Companies — Editing the 2026 edition of Empresas de Alto Desempenho by Jackson Ballock and Reiner Modro, with a new AI chapter and a parallel Brazilian Portuguese translation.
• The Backrooms Loop — Five-episode limited series script with a companion SNL sketch. About a man and an Amazon AI customer-support bot in a fight neither one understands. Cold open: "In 2025, Amazon's AI customer service handled over 85% of all inquiries. The other 15% are still in there."

Catalog · ten releases and a daily habit

The body of work.

Ten records live on every major platform — rap albums, an ambient companion, a 25-track book score, a Jacksonville anthem set, a collaboration, plus singles and a daily-news rap engine that grows every morning. The voice never blinks across them. Lyrics, mixes, video, the entire shipping yard — all hand-loaded. Click a tracklist; the song plays in the corner.

The seven projects

Tokens per soul.

The numbered list. Each one a long-running thing that gets attention every week. The wider ledger sits below for everything else — the companies, the ventures, the clients, the civic obligations.

The ledger · everything else on the bench

Also on the desk.

The wider spread — companies, ventures, civic obligations, client work, internal tools. Some of these have been running for two decades; some lit up last week. None of them are decoration.

About · the man at the desk

A workshop in Riverside.

Connect · the wires out

Where the work lives.

Direct uploads on Tidal and Bandcamp. Audiomack for the rap-radio underbelly. YouTube for the visuals. The wide-net distributors carry the rest of it the rest of the way. Email lands directly on the bench.

Contact · the wires in

Drop a line.

For project inquiries, press, contract work, book press, license requests, or anything that needs an actual human. Vic also monitors the line — write to Vic if you'd rather Vic picks up first.