Meet the Author

Heeeeyyyyyy…

Was that awkward enough?

I’m Kris and am surprised and delighted you’re here.

Oh… hold on, my laundry just finished…

Anyway, I grew up watching a lot of cop shows and mysteries and would always try to figure out the mystery before the big reveal (as one does). I’m also really good at figuring out movie plots just from seeing trailers.

Like— annoyingly good.

I actually had friends in college (yes, I had/ have friends) test out my ‘figure it out’ acumen and showed me the first 20 minutes of a an hour and a half hour long movie, paused it, and asked me to guess what was going to happen.

As their faces fell to impressed annoyance, I realized I’d probably gotten close. Turns out it wasn’t close, but spot on.

All that to say, a lot of storytelling (at least in visual media such as movies and TV) has gotten a bit predictable for me.

Whereas the stories my brain comes up with, actually can surprise me. I don’t always (rarely in fact) know where a plot is going as I’m writing, but as it progresses and I get to a twist, I’ll find that I’ve woven hints that even I didn’t clock throughout the story.

Weird how that works. Might have something to do with neuro-spicy brain.

SO! Here’s my writing. My stories live and thrive under the ‘Speculative Fiction’ umbrella with most of them falling under ‘Mystery-Detective’/ ‘Police Procedural’, ‘Fantasy-Adventure’ (not the spicy kind), or ‘Urban-Fantasy’ with a little ‘Sci-fi’ thrown in.

I write in third-person-limited, so you’re not reading the first-person internal monologue of the main character, but you the reader can observe what the character observes. Because it’s limited, I also have point of view shifts so you get the perspectives of other character to fill in details. Sometimes it’s details the main character(s) don’t ever know.

And, I feel like I should stress that NONE of it is geared towards children or young adults. Even if the overall themes in my fantasy/adventure stories might seem childish— it’s just that those are the kinds of stories I like. Seriously, there’s a lot of violence and swear words and violence so… not for kiddos.