Brandon McClain

Brandon McClain is a devoted father of nine—eight rambunctious boys and one spirited girl, to whom he spins bedtime tales wilder than any rift-jump. By day, he’s a cartoonist sketching worlds that bend and break, and a volunteer firefighter racing into the flames to pull others from the dark, much like the heroes in his stories. With a lifelong passion for time travel theory—those mind-bending “what ifs” that twist physics into poetry—Brandon crafts speculative fiction that probes the fragile edges of loss, resilience, and the human spark that outshines the stars.

Echoes of Tomorrow is his debut novel, born from the ache of losing his own firefighter father at age nine—a wound that once fueled dreams of leaping back to rewrite the ending. As a kid, Brandon would have traded everything for one more dawn with him. But adulthood taught a harder, brighter truth: Those “what ifs” aren’t erasers; they’re echoes, shaping the family, the firehouse camaraderie, and the stories he tells his kids under the covers. In the Echoes series, Alex’s jumps aren’t just thrills—they’re mirrors for young adults on the cusp, showing that burying the past doesn’t mean forgetting it. Reflect on the scars, then step forward into the story you’re meant to write.