Zach Parker

About me

I write science-fiction flavored fantasy. I have been writing fiction for the past four years or so, and I'm about to start putting it out there. I'd dig it if you'd check out my novella!

In real life, I am a statistics person in the tech industry. I'm an American, originally from Southern California. Now, I live in the Midwest with chipmunks, skunks, rabbits, and squirrels. Occasionally, raccoons invade our territory as well.

I like history and especially old myths and religions. I'm not really religious myself, but I find the idea of Gods fascinating and how belief intersects with history. So a lot of my writing is about the Gods and religious wars... in space.

I started writing because I had this idea for a fantasy world with a religious conflict. Initially, because I program, I thought I'd write a computer role-playing game. I wrote a basic engine, game rules, and a few levels, but I realized I was having more fun writing the story than the game so I decided to ditch the pretense and just write a novel with the world I'd started building (which had gotten seriously out of hand). I started writing drafts of what would become my current project in 2021 and wrote and threw out multiple 100k's words until I started to figure it out.

The most embarassing thing about myself that I am willing to share with Strangers On The Internet: I am an enormous (unhealthy) fan of Lana Del Rey. We are not yet good enough friends, dear Stranger, that I can reveal to you what percentile I am in the Spotify listening distribution for Lana, but one day, I hope we will be.