Philip Hanks is a lifelong Star Trek fan who eventually realized that if Starfleet wasn’t going to recruit him, he’d just build his own starship and crew on paper. After years of reading sci‑fi and imagining his own adventures, he finally said, “How hard can writing a novel be?”

Several books later, he has learned the answer: harder than expected, but way more fun.

He writes the Camelot Chronicles — a saga full of starships, diplomacy, explosions he swears were not his fault, and characters who absolutely refuse to follow orders. When he’s not plotting tactical space battles or emotionally tormenting his crew, he’s probably reading, world‑building, or wondering how many cups of coffee a captain can legally consume.

He also writes fantasy, because sometimes you need a break from warp cores and want to traumatize people with swords instead.