Harmon Cooper

Harmon Cooper was once a musician who recorded two hundred songs nobody ever heard.

Then he quit music, quit playing video games, and missed the games so much he accidentally wrote a LitRPG novel before he knew what he was getting himself into. That book was The Feedback Loop — published in 2015 and narrated by Jeff Hays, back when the genre barely existed.

Harmon has been writing bestselling fantasy books ever since: dark progression epics, post-apocalyptic westerns, satirical dungeon crawls, cultivation, LitRPG, and a few cosy books.

Death's Mantle, a dark fantasy LitRPG narrated by Andrea Parsneau, won an AudioFile Earphones Award; Sacred Cat Island, a cozy LitRPG narrated by Travis Baldree, won an Independent Audiobook Award. His bestsellers include Pilgrim, War Priest, Cowboy Necromancer, Reborn Assassin, and the Aetherforged series, co-written with Luke Chmilenko.

He grew up in Austin, Texas, lived in Mongolia on a Fulbright, studied Tibetan in India and Nepal, spent a year in Japan writing in smoky coffee shops, and now lives near the sea with his artist wife and pet seagull named Harold.

Find him on Instagram and TikTok, where he talks writing, publishing, and posts update videos.

New release:

The Man Who Captured Fire

Shadowborn Exile 2

Pre-order:

Welcome to the Rift Book One: Demon Lord

Aetherforged 3 - cowritten with Luke Chmilenko

Shadowborn Exile 3

Eternal Realms 1 - cowritten with Luke Chmilenko

Completed Series:

LitRPG:

Tokens and Towers

Reborn Assassin

Cowboy Necromancer

Death's Mantle

Monster Hunt NYC

Proxima Legends

The Feedback Loop

The Last Warrior of Unigaea

Cozy Fantasy/LitRPG

Cozy Abyss (A Pub in the Underworld)

Sacred Cat Island

Cultivation/Progression Fantasy/Other:

Arcane Cultivator

Pilgrim

War Priest

Way of the Immortals

House of Dolls

Cherry Blossom Girls

The World According to Dragons