About Jonathan

I write about quiet places where the mundane and the mythic share the same street, where old things carry old power, and ordinary people discover the seams in the world they thought they knew.

I wrote fiction for years, then stopped for about a decade when I realized I had more to learn about what makes a story work. That time wasn't wasted, it was an education in structure, in craft, in paying attention to the mechanics underneath the surface. The kind of education that only matters if you eventually sit back down and do the work.

Handler's Inventory is what I sat back down to write, a supernatural mystery series set in the American Midwest, about a man who inherits a warehouse, a coded ledger, and a responsibility he didn't know existed. It's about what objects carry, what people leave behind, and what happens when you discover the work you were always meant to do.

I'm also a photographer, specializing in landscape, townscape, and astrophotography. The same impulse that draws me to old objects draws me to light on a grain elevator at dusk, or a county road under the Milky Way, the quiet, overlooked places that reward patience and attention.

I live in the Midwest. I believe genre fiction can be literary, that supernatural stories should be grounded in the physical world, and that the best mysteries are really about people.

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