About Lewis Faulkner

Novelist

A Life Filled With Stories

I’ve spent my life in roles that put me face-to-face with all kinds of people. Cops. Criminals. Tech teams. TV crews. Millionaires. And, many folks who almost defy description.

Those real-world encounters trained my eye as a novelist. They taught me how people speak when they’re afraid, what they hide, what they reveal by accident, and how contradictions live comfortably inside a single human being.

But my understanding of story didn’t come from theory alone. It was earned through the long, demanding work of writing, editing, and finishing novels.

I am the author of six novels.

And each novel required drafts that failed, revisions that clarified, and the discipline to carry a story from first sentence to final page. That process taught me what sustains narrative momentum, how structure holds under pressure, and why most creative advice breaks down halfway through a book.

Today, that lived experience shapes the way I help writers. Not with formulas, but with principles tested across full-length fiction.

Principles drawn from actually doing the work, returning to the page, and finishing what many writers only begin.

My Novels

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Brain-implant chips. Murder. Tied into the world’s largest tech company.

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The husband of a vice presidential hopeful is kidnapped.                                                    → Find Out More
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P.J. Griffin’s is blackmailing corporate executives.   

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Computer geek Thomas Bridger has created the killer political app.

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Eight people are about to find love. But with the wrong person!

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What if you could only see the world in black-and-white?

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Macie’s dream is to be the greatest Ricochet player of all time.

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