Jan B. Hellis writes adult speculative dark fantasy—stories about strange worlds, difficult choices, and their consequences.
His fiction is drawn to characters caught in moral uncertainty, and to what they are willing to become for those they love. Within unfamiliar worlds are familiar feelings and needs: belonging, pain, and joy.
Creatures may look strange. Their choices shouldn’t.
Jan B. Hellis is currently working on The Weight of a Feather, an adult literary dark fantasy novel set in an underground world where Craving governs every living thing—a story about reaching for a desired heaven while consuming the very things that make us truly alive.
Hellis writes for readers who enjoy discovering worlds in pieces rather than being given answers: worlds that reveal themselves gradually, characters who resist simple judgments, and stories that leave their questions—and their emotional weight—alive after the final page.