The Xen'in Universe

I'm F.J. Blooding, a once USA Today bestselling author. I write urban fantasy, science fiction, epic fantasy, and epic urban fantasy with a character growth focus. I'm happiest when I'm growing people, which sounds really strange, but that's who I am and what I do. The people around me who aren't actively hiding from life, use what I do and what I give them to create amazing lives for themselves. My stories have rich characters, as long as you can read the body language tags, who don't always make the right decisions. We don't make stupid decisions for the sake of plot twists, but they're still sometimes dumb with real consequences. My earlier works were still a bit fumbly as I attempted to figure out what kind of writer I am, but my newest works deliver, and I'm hugely excited about them. I write, primarily, in three universes: Whiskey-verse where most of our urban fantasy and my one epic urban fantasy stories reside. Dreamland where my epic urban fantasies live. And, finally, Black Systems where our science fictions stories spawn. Happy reading!

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