About this site

Solace Technologies is not a real company.

It only feels like one. Which is rather the point.

Aged bronze lettering along a building's upper floor at golden hour, shot at an angle so the words dissolve into pure texture and light

This website is a companion artifact to The Better Copy, a novel by Wren Hallam. Everything here — Continuance™ and its plans, Presence™, the Parlors, the Residuals statements, the press releases, the executives, the promise in bronze — is part of the story. It is the company's website as the families in the novel would have found it, in the summer before everything changed.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, institutions, and events are either products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, organizations, or events is coincidental. No products or services are offered or sold here. No form on this site collects or transmits data. The Care line does not ring anywhere. No one is kept.

The novel

The Better Copy

In 2024, an engineer named Elias Vance stayed up past two in the morning teaching a machine his dying wife's voice. Seven years later, the company that owns her sends him a letter. The Better Copy is a story about grief, ownership, and the five-word promise a machine refuses to break — and what it costs to be kept.

The Better Copy is coming soon in hardcover, ebook, and audio, with a film adaptation in development.

Stay in the loop (really)

For release dates, excerpts, and film news:

[publisher / publicity contact goes here]

Press inquiries about the book or film should go to the address above — press@solacetechnologies.net is part of the fiction.

Concept gallery

Promotional concepts from the world of the book.

Marketing collateral Solace would have printed: product one-sheets, a pre‑need brochure, a partner-facing program sheet, and the company overview. Made for the novel, not for a market. Click any sheet to view it full size.

Solace Technologies company overview sheet: Keep memory close, with the four products and plan tiers — Company overview — the four products, the four plans.

Continuance product sheet: a woman in conversation with her late father on a phone — Continuance™ — "Begin with what you have."

Presence product sheet: a man watching his late mother on a tablet — Presence™ — "Now remember the face."

Pre-Need Capture brochure: a man recording his stories with a guide, and a keepsake memory box — Pre‑Need — "Begin while you're still you."

Clinical Legacy Programs sheet: a Solace specialist meeting a couple in a hospital setting — Clinical Legacy Programs — the partner-facing sheet.

A Solace billboard at a rain-slicked intersection at dusk — Out‑of‑home creative — see the campaign in situ.

These sheets carry their own disclaimer for a reason: they were made to be shared out of context, on their own, away from this site. If one reaches you without the book attached, it should still tell you the truth.