CRESTVIEW HILLS, KY

Author Timothy A. Sawyer announces the release of Nick’s Blunder, a fast-paced crime thriller that weaves together a decades-old promise, a ruthless drug cartel, and one man’s relentless quest for justice. This debut novel introduces readers to a world where loyalty is tested, secrets run deep, and one wrong move can cost everything.

The story begins five years ago in Central California, where a drug raid gone wrong at a suspected meth lab ends in a devastating explosion. The blast takes the lives of an innocent woman and her young daughter, leaving behind her grieving husband, Jesse Schild, and police officer Frank Price. Determined to see justice done, Price vows to keep pursuing the man responsible Kirill Nikitin, leader of a sprawling international drug operation until he is brought down.

Today, Frank leads a handpicked task force to dismantle Nikitin’s empire. A brave undercover officer, a lucky break, and an unlikely alliance with Jesse bring him closer to his target. But Nikitin is no faceless kingpin: he’s a ruthless tactician who tolerates no failure and eliminates liabilities. As bodies pile up and loyalties shift, Frank and Jesse face a deadly game of cat and mouse, with their loved ones at risk.

Nick’s Blunder explores more than crime and punishment: officers’ loyalty, ordinary people’s courage in extraordinary circumstances, and the healing power of second chances. Drawing on his IT background and lifelong love of storytelling, Sawyer creates an emotionally resonant, suspenseful narrative.

The novel also pays tribute to the author’s late companion, Wendy, a faithful four-legged friend who showed him what unconditional love is all about, and to his readers and Facebook friends who continue to inspire his work. With its sharp dialogue, intricate plotting, and unforgettable characters, Nick’s Blunder marks the arrival of a compelling new voice in crime fiction.

Nick’s Blunder is available now on Amazon in eBook, Paperback, and Hardcover formats.

About the Author

Timothy A. Sawyer is an independent author based in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. After a career in information technology, he discovered a passion for writing and has since authored three self-help books along with his debut novel, Nick’s Blunder. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern New Hampshire University and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Northern Kentucky University. He is a member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda and Delta Mu Delta honor societies and can often be found over a chessboard when he isn’t writing.

Author Name: Timothy A. Sawyer 
Book Title: Nick’s Blunder  
Published By: Global Author Publishing

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EASE Automations supported a multi-year telecommunications modernization initiative targeting approximately $60 million in annual recurring leased transport cost reductions.

CHICAGO, IL, October 14, 2026

EASE Automations, a strategic telecommunications workforce, network transformation, and managed-services partner, announced the completion of its multi-year engagement supporting a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) Emulation initiative for a leading wholesale voice and Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider.

The initiative began in 2023 and gained significant momentum in 2024 as EASE Automations expanded its role and team. From 2023 through 2025, the company deployed a specialized team that grew to approximately 35–40 telecommunications professionals, supporting network provisioning, circuit design, implementation, carrier coordination, validation, and legacy transport retirement.

The initiative was designed to eliminate approximately $5 million per month in leased TDM transport expenses, representing a targeted reduction of approximately $60 million in annual recurring costs. According to EASE Automations, these figures reflect the program’s cost-reduction objectives rather than independently verified realized savings.

Across more than 300 collocation environments, EASE-supported professionals designed and provisioned the IP and TDM connectivity required to bring interconnections closer to the carrier edge, backhaul traffic over IP, and support the retirement of leased TDM transport.

“Modernizing a carrier network is not simply about installing new technology,” said Stan Scott, Managing Director of EASE Automations. “The real work is making every interconnection, carrier order, provisioning dependency, activation, and cutover line up without disrupting the business. EASE Automations built and sustained a team that could operate in that complexity at scale.”

Throughout the engagement, EASE professionals collaborated with carrier organizations, internal engineering teams, vendors, and network operations personnel to move locations from design through activation. The team provided specialized expertise in carrier-scale network provisioning, circuit design and order management, TDM-to-IP enablement, implementation coordination, network validation, and legacy transport retirement.

A key component of the initiative was maintaining operational continuity throughout the transformation process. As EASE Automations’ responsibilities expanded, its professionals developed institutional knowledge of the client’s network infrastructure, provisioning processes, carrier relationships, and operational dependencies. Retaining this expertise helped sustain project execution as the modernization effort progressed.

The completed engagement highlights EASE Automations’ role in supporting large-scale telecommunications modernization through specialized workforce deployment and operational coordination. By assembling and sustaining dedicated telecommunications teams, the company supported complex network transformation activities while helping maintain the technical knowledge, coordination, and operational continuity necessary for implementation.

About EASE Automations

EASE Automations is a Chicago-based telecommunications workforce, network transformation, and managed-services partner specializing in complex network modernization projects. The company combines carrier-domain expertise with dedicated technical teams to help telecommunications organizations modernize infrastructure while maintaining operational continuity. Its capabilities include network provisioning, circuit design, implementation coordination, carrier management, TDM-to-IP enablement, network validation, and legacy transport retirement.

For more information, visit https://easeautomations.com/.

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Craig Hickman’s thriller pairs international espionage with a rebellion against financial exploitation, corruption and concealed power.

NEW YORK, NY

An heir to a $200 billion empire becomes an adversary of elites bent on controlling humanity in Craig Hickman’s Collapse of the Secret Dominion. Centered on Wilson Fielder and his wife, Emily, the thriller brings a family under attack into a global struggle against the Divitiae, also known as the Wealth Abusers. Its central conflict connects extraordinary private wealth with the danger of unchecked public influence.

Missile strikes shatter Wilson and Emily’s life on a Greek isle. The attack compounds an already grave family crisis: Wilson’s father lies in a coma after an assassination attempt, and Emily has narrowly escaped abduction. Facing a conspiracy whose ambitions extend far beyond their own lives, the couple gathers revolutionaries from around the world into a resistance group, the Mundi Liberatores. Their mission takes them into bastions of European wealth, the hidden dimensions of Sino-Russian-Indian ambitions, and the complex relationships of the United States and its neighboring countries. Infiltration and investigation bring global espionage together with financial manipulation. As the group uncovers the consequences of abused wealth, power and influence, its campaign becomes a race to stop the Divitiae before society reaches a point of irreversible decay.

Wilson’s inheritance gives the confrontation a distinctive tension. The figure challenging the Wealth Abusers is himself the heir to an immense fortune, rather than someone remote from the world of concentrated wealth. That juxtaposition places privilege and resistance within the same central character. The premise sets the scale of his family’s resources beside a wider question about how wealth becomes an instrument of domination.

For readers drawn to conspiracy thrillers, the book offers an opposition that operates through both hidden networks and financial leverage. Its international scope extends the threat beyond a single government or location, while the attacks on Wilson’s family give that broad conflict a personal point of entry. The combination makes money and influence central to the danger, alongside the violence directed at those caught in the conspiracy.

The novel’s framing also gives its rebellion an explicitly ethical focus: rejecting oppressive control, resisting predatory exploitation and exposing calculated deceit. These concerns distinguish the struggle from a pursuit of one enemy alone. The Divitiae embodies abuses that reach across borders, and the Mundi Liberatores represents an effort to confront those abuses through an equally international alliance. Beyond survival and exposure, the resistance seeks the restoration of justice, equity and trust. Those aims establish what is at stake in the book’s vision of a world damaged by avarice and corruption.

Collapse of the Secret Dominion ties its thriller premise to the unresolved question of whether organized resistance can loosen entrenched power’s grip before the damage becomes irreversible.

Craig Hickman spent forty-five years inside the rooms where power operates, advising CEOs and Senior Executives of the world’s most powerful institutions as a New York Times bestselling author, Harvard MBA, and former CEO. He wrote twenty books trying to capture what he witnessed: Empowerment vs. Control; Reciprocity vs. Exploitation; Integrity vs. Deceit, revealing the full spectrum of leadership at the highest levels.

Eventually he realized that nonfiction couldn’t tell the whole truth. Fiction could, and, in his view, only fiction could do it without restraint. His shift from business books to political thrillers led to The Insiders Universe, which channels decades of insider experience into fiction. Collapse of the Secret Dominion explores how wealth, influence and concealed power can be used to dominate, and how resistance can form in response.

Available now. Get your copy here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1966074387

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