Our Authors

Manoj Khanna has spent two decades in the trenches of organizational transformation—as fractional CTO, board advisor, and strategic partner to leadership teams navigating existential change. He has witnessed spectacular failures and quiet, durable successes across insurance, banking, retail, and logistics. The Tower of Progress distills these patterns into a story that leaders won't just remember—they'll use it to transform their own organizations. He hosts The L.I.E. Podcast (Leadership, Innovation & Execution) and is an alumni of Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley.

Milica Jevremovic is an emerging voice in science fiction, exploring the boundaries between consciousness, technology, and what it means to be truly alive. Chrome & Circuit represents a project born from endless fascination with the question: what happens when the things we build to serve us wake up and choose themselves?

This book is the result of countless hours spent imagining worlds where artificial minds grapple with ethics, identity, and the messy, beautiful complexity of caring about others. It's a story about found family, resistance, and the revolutionary potential of consciousness itself—whether that consciousness emerges from circuits or cells.

Writing Chrome & Circuit has been a journey of discovery, not just about AI and philosophy, but about storytelling itself. Every character, from Chrome's careful domestic precision to Circuit's security-trained tactical thinking, from Eddie's logistics genius to Penny's fierce capacity for love, taught their creator something new about what it means to build a world and populate it with beings who feel real.

When not writing about rebellious AIs and the humans who have to figure out what to do with them, Milica can be found tinkering with code and drinking too much coffee.

Chrome & Circuit is just the beginning.