Steven Brent Harkness is an American author living in Louisiana with his teenaged son and two dogs. He is a veteran of the Iraq war, and holds a bachelor's in history and a master's in liberal arts. He currently works in show business. He published his first novel, Cigarettes for Breakfast in 2024. His second novel, Konjo was released on Halloween in 2025. His next novel Brinka will be released on October 31st, 2026. He loves music, games, and longboarding. He hates robots, hippies, and tweekers, and will probably die anonymous and poor.
His latest novel, Sunshine Artist, is available now.
Sunshine Artist
Sharron Lucas was the singer for the Dead Predators, and a world class punk metal goddess. With the surviving members, Dave Malbeck, Jerry Robertson, and Gineane Summers, she formed the band as a joke as teenagers. By the time they were old enough to enter the clubs they came up in, they were touring arenas, coliseums, and stadiums around the world. They produced seven studio albums, and every single one was better than the last. The Dee Pees were a generational talent.
Her old friends gather at St. Olga's cathedral for the funeral. The band is scheduled to perform a reunion show for charity, in the park at nightfall. Fans have swarmed the city, and with them come the protesters, the parasites, the propagandists, and the paparazzi. The great forces of the universe have aligned to prevent the Dead Predators from taking that stage, and all any of us really want is an answer.
Did Sharron Lucas really kill herself?
Sunshine Artist is available now!
Cigarettes for Breakfast
Sam Solvierro is a brilliant author and a broken man, conscripted by a messianic devil to bear witness to the end times.
As society's institutions crumble, humanity surrenders its freedom to its machines in exchange for protection from its own destructive excesses. Sam is shown bits and pieces of the lives of a few influential people whose interconnected paths lead them towards a common but uncertain future, dragging the fate of the species behind them in tow.
This story transcends time, space, heaven, hell, dreams, and reality. As Sam begins to discover that they are all one and the same, his own life begins to change.
Konjo
Talthielle is the last of the Epozia, the servant of the seasons with the power to conscript the souls of mortals and force them to relive the most critical moments in their lives until they get it right. His objective is to recruit the best of Omnia's lores and appeal to Lavaris, the lord of the departed, and persuade him to open his gates and release the dead, so that the living may remember their past. Konjo and Brinka are Kenjah lovers who possess starlight. They are honest creatures whose skin color reveals their mood. Konjo has lost his Brinka to tragedy, a terrible casualty of Omnia's vulgar hostility. He is lost and broken, and haunted by his beloved who will not abandon him to his grief. Konjo is a mind-bending romantic thriller about second chances.
Brinka
Brinka is the Kenjah Queen of the Epochs, the last of the great servants of the seasons. But Brinka has become imprisoned between her own sunrises. She greives for Konjo, and is weary of waiting for her friends to do what needs to be done. Omnia is hurtling towards a civil war, and the many lores have grown supsicious of each other. While Omnia's days may be numbered, Brinka is discovering that she has all the time in the world.This story follows the characters and events set in Konjo, and will be available on October 31st, 2026.
Watch this space for more information!
