OP mentioned a tool called EPublish and I gather it's a home grown tool. It's ability to take annotations like TBH and generate a chapter-by-chapter report that marks those with TBHs is very cool.

If OP would consider open sourcing it I'd be interested in working with it.

Congrats, the description sounds like a good mystery! It'd be interesting to read more about the tooling and process you used, even if you don't release everything open, maybe you could write/blog about it?

I was also looking if there was a Wikipedia page about Software Engineers/Programmers who were also fiction writers. I know Andy Weir from Martian was a programmer. I thought Neal Stephenson would have some background in programming, but looks like he never wrote software professionally.

Congratulations on your publication! Have you also tried integrating apps like obsidian, that help in sw development?

Congrats, looks interesting, will check it out.

congratulations ,will checkout