About K.J. Heritage
“K.J. Heritage’s uncanny sense of pacing and story puts him at the forefront of today’s speculative fiction writers.”
– Samuel Peralta, Amazon bestselling author and creator of The Future Chronicles
K.J.HERITAGE (Kev) is a bestselling British author and screenwriter of mystery science fiction, crime, action-adventure and epic fantasy. His fiction blends suspense, pace, big ideas and characters, and dark wit.
KEV'S first short story, Escaping the Cradle, was runner-up in the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition, and his short fiction has appeared in anthologies alongside writers including Hugh Howey (Silo, Wool) and Samuel Peralta (The Future Chronicles).
HIS story, Churchill’s Rock, from Chronicle Worlds: Legacy Fleet anthology, travelled to the Moon as part of the Lunar Codex Peregrine mission in 2024. Read his thoughts about that here.
HE HAS worked all the requisite ‘writer jobs’ such as driver’s mate, factory gateman, barman, labourer, telesales operative, sales assistant, warehouseman, IT contractor, Student Union President, university IT helpdesk guy, British Rail signal software designer, Premiership football website designer, gigging musician, company director, graphic designer, stand-up comedian, sound engineer, improv artist, magazine editor and web journo… Although he doesn’t like to talk about it. Mostly… Maybe a little bit.
KEV was born in the UK in one of the more interesting previous centuries. Originally from Derbyshire, he now lives in the seaside town of Brighton. He is a tea drinker, cancer survivor, and neurodiverse (AuDHD) human being.
HE also writes and performs New Wave/Synthpop retro-hybrid electronica with AuDHD themes as the artist, Kick Lizard.