Nathan Brookman

I’m a father of four and a telecom professional - Sprint, T‑Mobile, and now Cogent Communications - who still measures the world in routes, handoffs, and signal paths. Sports have always anchored my life. I played college basketball, and these days I’m the coach on the sideline for my two youngest, rotating through whatever game they’re chasing that season. I’m the kind of person who has to understand how things work, whether that’s a pick‑and‑roll or a protein fold.

That same curiosity runs through my reading life. I grew up on Harry Potter and never really left that headspace - I’m a sucker for a great hero’s journey. Give me Red Rising, The Passage Trilogy, or anything that puts an ordinary person against impossible odds and asks what they’re made of. I read to see how people survive, adapt, and become.

Writing always felt like someone else’s gift. Then my youngest two had a school project, and I jumped in to help. Something clicked. I couldn’t stop. What started as a homework assignment turned into a trilogy, and now here I am - a telecom guy trying to get his books into the world.

My work is shaped by the same habits that run my life: disciplined practice, a coach’s patience, and a technician’s curiosity. I build characters the way I troubleshoot a network: identify the failure points, trace the causes, and reconfigure until the system holds. My plots lean on momentum - plays set up, counters revealed - and my themes orbit resilience, responsibility, and transformation.

If you like stories where ordinary people are pushed past their limits and discover who they really are, you’ll find my books familiar and, I hope, surprising. I write for readers who love stakes that matter and characters who fight not just for victory, but for the people they can’t afford to lose.