Kevin Perryman

Kevin Perryman is a Meta-Progression Author whose work weaponizes metaphor and refuses to let readers look away.

Born in Stockton, California, he spent twenty years running tabletop RPG campaigns before realizing his players were teaching him how stories actually work. Those campaigns became The Hollow Sword Master series and Knuckle’s Legacy—narratives where trauma isn’t backstory, it’s terrain. It’s where magic systems are diagnostic tools. Where the monsters you fight are the parts of yourself you’ve been running from.

His work fuses Meta-Progression, psychological horror, and LitRPG wonder into stories that ask one central question: What does it cost to survive the thing that should have killed you?

Kevin’s mission is simple: build a 100-story library. Every book is another artifact salvaged from the void. Every character is a patient in a diagnostic process. Every reader is a witness to the war between creation and erasure.

He currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with his wife and cats. His primary weapon remains the stubborn belief that the stories worth telling are the ones that hurt to write.