This is what it says on my book covers:

Patrick O'Sullivan writes hopeful space opera and grimbright fantasy. His fantasy won first prize in the Writers of the Future Contest, and his science fiction took the grand prize in the James Patrick Baen Memorial Writing Contest, sponsored by Baen Books and the National Space Society.

What that short description doesn't explain is why I write these stories.

Because I want to read them.

Stories where, no matter how bad things get, ordinary heroes map out a course and take it. And when they fail they get up and try again. I know people like this. I meet them every day. And no one tells their stories anymore.

They say to write about what you know.

I've never met a Dark Lord, or a Chosen One.

So I write about people like us.