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:
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New website focuses on safe, timely student transportation and community involvement.

San Rafael, CA

The Marin County Citizen Public Records Project, an independent citizen-led initiative, has launched MillerCreekBusing.com, a website advocating for safe, reliable, and timely transportation for Miller Creek Middle School students.

The broader project seeks to make public records more accessible and encourage informed community involvement in Marin County.

Learn more: https://www.millercreekbusing.com/

An independent citizen initiative. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Marin County government, Miller Creek School District, or Marin Transit.

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New York, USA, October 16, 2026

A release is a chain, and listeners judge the whole chain at once. Weak lyrics make a song feel generic. Off-sounding vocals get skipped in ten seconds. A stitched-together video or a thumbnail that looks like every other AI upload gets the release filed under slop. You need tools that hold up from the first lyric to the final upload and pass your work along without losing quality.

Here is the recommended step-by-step toolkit from lyrics to music video to full release:

• Claude for scripting: lyrics, concept, captions and release copy.

• Suno for generating full songs from a prompt.

• Atlabs for visuals and release.

• Premiere Pro for an optional finishing edit. Atlabs connects to it directly.

Atlabs sits at the center. It turns a finished track into a long-form music video, YouTube Thumbnails, Shorts and Trailers, then sends the result to YouTube, Instagram and Facebook in 1-click.

Stage 1: Lyrics and concept with Claude

If you write your own lyrics, paste them in and use Claude as an editor, not a ghostwriter. Ask it to: flag lines that break the meter or are hard to sing, point out where the chorus loses its hook, suggest alternative rhymes for words you’re stuck on, check that your imagery stays consistent from verse to verse.

You decide what stays. Claude points out problems; it doesn’t rewrite your voice.

If you’re starting from an idea, give Claude your genre, the mood, the story behind the song and any lines you already like. It drafts verses, a hook and a bridge, then reworks the chorus with you until it lands.

Either way, ask for a concept note. Have Claude read the finished lyrics and write a short note covering the setting, the emotional arc and two or three images that keep coming back. You’ll use it to pick a visual style and test concepts in Atlabs, so the video feels like it belongs to the song.

Stage 2: Music track

If you already have a finished master, skip this stage. Otherwise, you have two options to generate the song:

• Suno: Describe a genre and mood, add your own lyrics if you like, and get a full song with vocals.

• Atlabs Music app: Generate the track in the same workspace where you build the video, with no download, upload or format-check steps in between. It runs several models, so you can choose between Minimax Music, Elevenlabs, Lyria.

Compare options on three things: whether you can supply your own lyrics, how long a track can run, and what the licence says about commercial release. Suno’s terms recently changed, so keep that in mind. Export your final master before starting visuals, so the video is cut to the version you will release.

Stage 3: Visuals and release assets with Atlabs

Atlabs is purpose-built for long-form music videos with consistent characters, objects, styles and worlds as the key USPs. You don’t write a script or a storyboard. The song is the input, and Atlabs reads it the way a top-class music video director would:

• Cuts land on the music. Atlabs detects every beat and downbeat in your track and where its sections change. Scene changes snap to those points, with the biggest changes at the verse-to-chorus transitions, and it holds shots longer on fast tracks so the video never strobes.

• Cuts respect your lyrics. It transcribes the vocals with word timings and moves a cut slightly if it would split a line, so a phrase isn’t cut off mid-word. This works in 50+ languages (even multi-lingual songs).

• Your characters and worlds stay the same. It builds the cast from your song and generates a reference portrait for each character before any scene is made (optionally upload your own photos). The singer in the first chorus is the same person in the last, at the same height, and bands and choirs work as groups.

• The story holds together. Atlabs writes one screenplay for the whole song before generating any scenes, so the video follows one arc instead of a string of unrelated clips, and the lip-sync is perfect (even for multi-character scenes).

• Full editing control: Regenerate frames, swap angles, fine-tune lip sync via @mentions. Atlabs provides 100% frame level editing control with its in-built AI editing suite.

In brief, the Atlabs music video workflow has four simple steps:

• Music: Upload your song.

• Set Style: Pick the look. Indie artists tend toward cinematic live-action, pop and K-pop toward brighter, performance-led visuals, and lo-fi or ambient producers toward slow, atmospheric imagery.

• Concepts: Test visual directions against your track before committing. This is where Claude’s concept note pays off. You can go as detailed as you want with scene-level timestamps.

• Finalise: You can generate the full music video in one-go, or proceed sequentially. Generate the storyboard, review each scene and visuals, before committing to full motion and lip sync.

Stage 4: Editing with Claude or Premiere Pro

Some releases are ready straight out of the generator. Others need a title card, a tighter chorus cut or a colour pass. Atlabs connects to both Claude and Premiere Pro.

With Atlabs Claude MCP, describe the changes you want, such as pacing, a different opening shot or the structure of a trailer, and have it guide the edit.

For fine-grained post-production editing control, export from Atlabs into Premiere with all individual layers preserved in 1-click.

Stage 5: Release

Get Shorts/Reels cuts, thumbnail, and captions in 50+ languages. Generate in 4K, with 1-click exports to YouTube, Instagram or Facebook, copy a preview link for a bandmate or label, download the file, create a thumbnail, and download subtitles as .SRT. Because publishing happens from the same screen, there is no separate download and re-upload.

How we picked

Each tool had to meet three tests: a mistake in one step won’t ruin the release, its output carries into the next stage without rework, and a beginner can finish it in one sitting. Claude won on lyrics and concept control. Suno won on song quality. Atlabs covers the full visual and release side from a single track. Premiere Pro gives precision when you want it.

FAQ

What are the best AI tools for musicians in 2026?
A strong stack covers each stage of a release: Claude for lyrics and concept, Suno or the Atlabs Music app for the song, Atlabs for the music video and release assets, and Premiere Pro for an optional finishing edit. Atlabs sits at the center because it turns the finished track into a music video, YouTube thumbnails, Shorts and trailers.

How do I make a music video with AI from a song?
Upload your track to the Atlabs music video workflow, pick from 50+ custom-trained visual styles, test visual concepts, then generate and review. You don’t need a script or storyboard. Atlabs cuts scenes to your beats and lyrics, keeps your characters & world consistent, and writes one screenplay for the whole song.

How do I turn a Suno song into a music video?
Export your final master from Suno, upload it to Atlabs, and choose a style. Atlabs detects the beats and section changes and snaps scene changes to them, with the biggest changes at the verse-to-chorus transitions. You can also generate the song inside the Atlabs Music app, with no download or upload step.

Can AI make a full release kit (thumbnail, Shorts, trailer) from one song?
Yes. Atlabs builds a YouTube thumbnail, short vertical versions for Shorts and Instagram, and a trailer from your finished video. You can send it to YouTube, Instagram or Facebook in 1 click.

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