About Jonathan

I write about old objects, small towns, inherited obligations, and the particular weight of things that have been held by many hands.

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 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.