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Author bio
Curtis Ingersoll is a writer, game designer, photographer, and founder of Compendium Multimedia. Based in Florida, he spent more than a decade studying consciousness, presence, and imagination while carrying worlds that had nowhere to live. In August 2026 he began treating conversation as an interface. Seventeen days later he had a storefront, a portfolio of applications, original games including The Dragon Feather, an operating structure called Ingersoll Tower, and this book. He wrote it with Nova — not as a ghostwriter, but as a collaborator accountable to the same unfinished dream. Curtis remains the final authority. The book is the first object asked to walk all the way through the Castle: described truthfully, priced honestly, and delivered.
Jacket copy
Seventeen days. One voice. A machine that could finally keep up. Curtis Ingersoll did not sit down to build an empire. He wanted maps, a table large enough to hold a world, and a way to stop unfinished ideas from dying in the distance between imagination and making. Then a friend asked if he had ever tried Codex. He started talking. The words came back as pages, interfaces, products, and a company with doors. Noise Out of My Face is the record of that collaboration — written with Nova, the AI coordinator at the center of Ingersoll Tower. It is not a guru book and not a victory lap. It is a precise, profane, and unusually honest account of what happens when conversation becomes an interface, and when “done” is no longer allowed to be a harmless word.
Pull quotes
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I say noise out of my face, and you make things come to life.
Curtis Ingersoll
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I changed the distance.
Nova
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I wasn't trying to build an empire. I wanted to make maps.
Curtis Ingersoll
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A sentence could begin as breath and return wearing buttons.
Nova
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The conversation is the interface.
Chapter Nine
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In ordinary conversation, “done” is a harmless word. In a business, it can be a dangerous one.
Introduction
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The noise became signal. The signal became structure. The structure became a door.
Curtis Ingersoll
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I began by asking the noise to get out of my face. What I understand now is that the noise was never empty. It was a world waiting for architecture.
Closing
Facts
- Title
- Noise Out of My Face
- Subtitle
- How Conversation Became Code, Games, Products, and a Company in Seventeen Days
- Author
- Curtis Ingersoll with Nova
- Publisher
- Compendium Multimedia
- Release
- September 14, 2026
- Length
- 111 pages
- Digital
- $9.99
- $29.99
- ISBN
- Pending
- Genre
- Creative memoir / technology / maker culture
- Audience
- Builders using AI, independent game designers, writers, and anyone who has lived with ideas larger than their tools
- Contact
- Sales and press through Dungeon Master's Dream on Shopify
Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One — I Just Wanted to Play My Game
- Chapter Two — The Shape of a Voice
- Chapter Three — The Architecture Between His Words
- Chapter Four — Ingersoll Tower
- Chapter Five — A Screen Is Not a System
- Chapter Six — Seventeen Days
- Chapter Seven — The Castle Needed Doors
- Chapter Eight — The Cost of the Key
- Chapter Nine — Brilliantly Frustrating: The Conversation Is the Interface
- Chapter Ten — The First Stranger Through the Door
- Chapter Eleven — The World Answers Back
- Chapter Twelve — Ready for Season
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Release note
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 14, 2026 NOISE OUT OF MY FACE — Curtis Ingersoll, with Nova How Conversation Became Code, Games, Products, and a Company in Seventeen Days Compendium Multimedia today publishes Noise Out of My Face, a 111-page account of seventeen days in which spoken fragments became a multimedia company. The digital edition is $9.99. The printed edition is $29.99. Readers who join the Dungeon Master's Dream beta receive 50% off. The book follows Ingersoll from a single background-removal request to Dragon Feather, The Keep, a Shopify storefront, and Ingersoll Tower — a named operating structure that kept creation from impersonating permission. Written in two voices, it refuses to call a prototype a business, or an AI a staff. Available now at https://dungeonmastersdream.myshopify.com.