Pete D. Jenkins

Pete D. Jenkins is a Colorado-based, dual-national author who works in two registers: practical nonfiction that turns complex technology into tools real people can use, and grimdark fiction built on the conviction that darkness only earns its keep when it knows exactly what it costs. Born in New York and raised on the western coastline of Wales, he's a dual national — a fact he finds completely unremarkable and which everyone else insists on finding fascinating. He brings the same no-nonsense, no-shortcuts sensibility to both registers.

Nonfiction

Pete spent the majority of his career as a penetration tester, with additional years in web development and Linux systems administration. That practical, hands-on background shows up on the page: demystify the hype, strip out the jargon, give readers something they can understand, control, and use immediately.

• Why Your GPT Prompts Fail: traces the history of generative AI up to the present and teaches readers to write better prompts using the CRAFT framework

• Termux Unleashed: The Android Hacker's Command Line

• Forbidden Syntax: The Master's Lexicon of Google Dorks and Search Engine Sorcery

• They Fear the Flipper: The Flipper Zero Bible

• The Steel Table: Lessons in the Hacker Mindset

• Phantom OSINT: Free Web Recon From Noob to Ninja

• Build Real Websites – Skip the Bullshit: An Actually Useful Guide for Beginners

Fiction

Pete's fiction is grimdark set in a North that's Norse on purpose and to the bone: the gods keep their right names, the seiđr keeps its right rules, and the prophecy has a name, because an invented world deserves real bones, not set-dressing borrowed from somewhere warmer. He doesn't write happy endings — he writes true ones, and there's a difference.

• Náströnd, first book of the Vargöld trilogy (Blóđniđr, the second, is being hauled up out of the cold as fast as the work allows)

• Harrow, which came before the trilogy and taught him that less is more

• They Fear the Thaw, a Viking horror choose-your-own-nightmare that's pure childhood nostalgia — as a kid he raided his father's stashed collection of 1980s "which way" books by R. G. Austin & and wore out three in particular: "Creatures of the Dark," "Poltergeists Ghosts and Psychic Encounters," & "Star Trek: Voyage to Adventure," from sheer repeat reading; building his own branching nightmare taught him just how much work goes into making a reader's choices actually matter

When he's not writing, you'll find him keeping bees, brewing craft beer, distilling small-batch spirits, or listening to blues, rock, and metal. He lives in Northern Colorado with his fiancée and dogs, still convinced that the best leverage comes from truly understanding the tools you use — whether that tool is a command line or a myth.