About the Author
Kris Faulkner
Kris Faulkner writes character-driven science fiction shaped by discipline, conflict, and hard consequences. His debut novel, The Drudge, follows a character he’s carried for years—loyal to a fault, dangerous when crossed, and not always easy to like. Faulkner’s work explores the uncomfortable space between duty and defiance, where even the flawed will do violent, necessary things for something they once believed in… or still do, whether they admit it or not.
Why I’m writing The Drudge
This book began as a question: what happens when survival demands loyalty to something you can’t fully understand?
Origins
A world built from shadow and consequence
I’m drawn to stories where the supernatural isn’t a shortcut—it’s a pressure that reveals who a person really is. The Drudge follows a human bound to vampires, and the long echo of choices made in fear, love, and hunger.
On the page
Character first, spectacle second
I write for readers who want intimacy inside the strange: a voice you can walk beside, even when the road turns brutal.
What to expect
Updates, excerpts, and the path to release
This site is where I’ll share progress notes, behind-the-scenes worldbuilding, and selected excerpts as the novel moves toward publication.
Process
How the story gets made
I’m a planner until I’m not. I outline to find the spine of a book—then I draft to discover what the characters refuse to say out loud.
For The Drudge, that meant building a timeline that stretches across centuries, then narrowing the lens to one human life caught in an immortal orbit. I revise for clarity, rhythm, and dread—keeping the language crisp so the atmosphere can stay heavy without becoming opaque.
I want the page to feel like a corridor of candlelight: beautiful, narrow, and impossible to ignore.
Kris Faulkner
If you like stories that balance intimacy with the uncanny—where devotion, power, and survival grind against each other—you’ll feel at home here.
★★★★★
““I mourn those who have never been broken. They walk blind. I feel a millennium of thunder echoing through the eternal return.””
Gérard
From The Drudge
Excerpt