Frank Perez

Frank J. Perez has never written the same story twice, mythic war epics, dark fantasy, comedic satire, urban fantasy adventure, each one built from scratch, in its own world, with its own rules. What keeps surfacing anyway, book after book, is a single unresolved question: what does it cost when the people holding power are more certain than they are accountable. He hasn't answered it yet. He calls the ongoing search A Different Door. Six so far.

I've written a girl destroyed by a cruel city who sacrifices everything for her son. A comedic government ministry that can't explain why its own methods work. A demigod raised by wolves and weaponized by an angel who lied to him from the day they met. None of these share a world. None of them share a genre. I built each one meaning to do something entirely different from the last.

And every single time, without deciding to, I end up back at the same unanswered question. What actually happens to the people who pay for somebody else's certainty. What it costs when the ones holding power care more about being right than being accountable for the ways they're wrong.

I don't think I've ever actually answered it. I've just tried a different door each time, a different genre, a different world, a different kind of person standing underneath the weight of somebody else's confidence, hoping this particular story might finally get me there. It hasn't, yet.

I've started calling the whole ongoing attempt A Different Door. Not a series. Not a shared world. Just an honest name for what I keep doing anyway, one book, one genre, one door at a time. Six so far. I'll update the count whenever I open another one.