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M.B. Everett

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in Fort Wayne, Indiana, The United States

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https://mbeverett.com

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Fantasy, Science Fiction

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Robert Jordan
Jim Butcher
Brent Weeks
Brandon Sanderson
J.R.R Tolkien
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M.B. Everett is the author of the Purple Sky Saga — a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy series set in a world reshaped by a Carrington-level solar event, where ancient mythology turns out to be real and one man discovers he may be the most powerful person alive. He doesn't want the job.

M.B. spent 38 years as a quality professional in the medical device industry before retiring in 2026 to write full-time. He brought the same standard with him. This is not a hobby. After 38 years in the quality field, M.B. Everett promises a quality product.

His published works include Immortal of the Saltless Sea, a novelette set in the Purple Sky world and available now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and Tarik of Kadicoy, published in the Allies of Majesty antho ...more

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What Authors do you write like?

M.B. Everett That's a question I've spent a lot of time thinking about — partly because the honest answer involves authors who set an intimidatingly high bar.
For w…moreThat's a question I've spent a lot of time thinking about — partly because the honest answer involves authors who set an intimidatingly high bar.
For world-building, Robert Jordan is the gold standard. The depth of the Wheel of Time — the cultures, the histories, the way the world breathes independently of the plot — that's what I'm reaching for in the Purple Sky Saga. A world that feels like it existed before the first page and will continue after the last.
For magic systems, Brandon Sanderson. The rigor and internal consistency of how dunamis works in my world owes a direct debt to how Sanderson taught me to think about a magic system. Rules matter. Costs matter. The reader should be able to figure out the logic before the character explains it.
For propulsive storytelling and a protagonist who uses intelligence as a weapon, Jim Butcher. Dresden taught me that a smart close-third voice can carry a reader through anything.
Brent Weeks showed me that morally complex characters in a brutal world can still carry genuine hope. And Stephen King taught me something that has nothing to do with horror — the discipline of showing the reader exactly what he needs, no more, whether that's enough to draw his own conclusion or enough to leave the mystery intact.
And underneath all of it, Tolkien. Everything traces back to The Hobbit in 1977 for me. He built the room we're all still writing in.(less)

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M.B. Everett Kanyin Robinson is the NFL's best cornerback — and he would very much like to stay that way.
He's not a chosen one who embraces his destiny. He's not a…moreKanyin Robinson is the NFL's best cornerback — and he would very much like to stay that way.
He's not a chosen one who embraces his destiny. He's not a reluctant hero who eventually rises to the occasion with a speech. He's a man who is exceptionally good at one specific thing — reading people, anticipating movement, turning other people's mistakes into his advantage — and who applies that same analytical framework to a world that has stopped making sense.

He is bi-racial, raised in a culture that shaped him into someone who leads with confidence and deflects with humor. He loves his wife Isabel with a quiet ferocity. He would do anything for his best friend Jonas. And he has a gift he refuses to fully acknowledge because acknowledging it would require him to accept things about the world — and about himself — that don't fit the version of reality he's spent his whole life building.

He has a wife, a team, and a very bad feeling about where things are heading.

He's exactly the kind of man you want beside you when everything goes wrong — and exactly the kind of man who will argue with you about whether anything is actually wrong until it's almost too late.(less)

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M.B. Everett answered Brian Motter's question: What is the Purple Sky Saga about? The Purple Sky Saga was born when I smashed two ideas together. The first: why do fantasy novels so often occur on a future earth, when those magical powers and monsters don't exist here in the present? How did that happen? What changed? The second: wh See Full Answer
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M.B. Everett answered Brian Motter's question: Who is Kanyin Robinson? Kanyin Robinson is the NFL's best cornerback — and he would very much like to stay that way. He's not a chosen one who embraces his destiny. He's not a reluctant hero who eventually rises to the occasion with a speech. He's a man who is exceptionally See Full Answer
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M.B. Everett and 12 other people liked Kendall's review of Isles of the Emberdark: "I feel like, as the first post-WaT Sanderson book I’ve read, Isles of the Emberdark may be catching a few more strays than it deserves, given how disappointing WaT was and how it cemented Sanderson’s fall from a top tier fantasy writer to something a" Read more of this review »
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