I’m a dystopian fiction fan, author, and firm believer that the best books in this genre are about hope and righting wrongs, and maybe also a how-to manual for rebellion.
I cut my teeth on the classics—1984, Brave New World—when kids my age were reading Goosebumps. One of my all-time favorites is Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde and when book 2 came out 15 years later, I wasn’t even mad at the wait. That mix of absurdity, darkness, and razor-sharp worldbuilding is what I aspire to in my own writing.
I’m fascinated by “what ifs” that spiral outward and reshape entire worlds, like the works of Neal Shusterman and Hugh Howey. That’s the kind of experience I chase as a reader and as a writer.
