BRANCHING PLOT BOOKS

Where readers shape the story

Founded in 2012, Branching Plot Books is a publishing platform built around participation. It brings together interactive fiction, traditional novels, a memoir, investigative writing, and reader-driven preservation projects within one system.


The formats vary. Some books offer multiple outcomes. Some follow a single narrative line. Some projects invite readers to document what they find, investigate details, or take on a defined role inside the work. What stays consistent is the reader’s involvement.


Each project asks readers to interpret what they see, question what they believe, and choose how they engage with the material. The work is designed to reward attention and decision-making.


Branching Plot Books explores how stories shape belief, how structure shapes perception, and how meaning shifts depending on who's doing the reading.

How Branching Plot Books Works

Arthur Mills in military uniform, seated in an airport terminal area, smiling while talking on a cell phone. An American flag patch is visible on his sleeve.

About Arthur

For over two decades, Arthur served as an Army Intelligence Warrant Officer, specializing in piecing together what others missed: patterns, threats, enemy intent, and clandestine activity. He also trained intelligence professionals, built threat models, and briefed commanders and world leaders on global threats and battlefield strategy. After retiring from the military, he transitioned into private investigation, focusing on missing persons, human trafficking, opposition research, and fraud cases. He also holds a degree in Counterterrorism, adding academic grounding to the skills he developed in the field.

He is an award-winning author who has been writing books since 2006. While he publishes under his own name, much of his best and most widely read work has appeared under pseudonyms. Readers may already know those titles, although they would not know they are his. That separation is intentional because just as his books invite readers to participate and interpret what is hidden between the lines, his career as a writer reflects the same principle.