Blackwood Press

Where broken things still grow.

Blood & Steel

Stories from a world that lost everything digital and rebuilt with what was left: muscle, iron, and the stubborn refusal to stay down.

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Road Tested

The Company Driver Survival Guide. Real-world career guides for the professional truck driver, written from the operations seat.

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Tool, Not Author

A novelist's operations manual for AI collaboration. The method, the prompts, and the living stack. Coming 2026.

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Ironforged — Book One

Wilted Crowns

Blood & Steel Universe

Peri Blackwood runs before dawn, measuring herself against a stopwatch that can't tell her what she needs to know. When a heist gone wrong pulls her family into something far larger than a score, she'll learn that the things worth keeping can't be timed — and the things worth fighting for don't come with a clean exit.

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About the Author

JT Baldwin

I write about systems, survival, and people who refuse to stay broken. The Blood & Steel universe has been building for thirty years. The Road Tested guides come from twenty-five years in trucking. Tool, Not Author comes from the intersection of both: learning to use AI as a collaborator without losing my voice.

By day, I serve as Vice President of Operations for a refrigerated carrier in Rochester, Minnesota. By night, I build worlds. The gap between those two things is smaller than you'd think.

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Years in Trucking