About me

• Francis Anderson — memoirist, novelist, archivist of the unseen
• From Greenville, South Carolina, I write at the crossroads of grief, myth, and recursion.
• My work merges lived experience with metaphysical architecture:
• the Spire, the Veil, the Archive, the White Room, and all the stories that orbit them.
• Every book I write — memoir, YA, horror, speculative literary fiction — connects to the same central truth:
• The stories we tell ourselves shape the worlds we walk.

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Five Orbital Circles (representing my major creative domains)

• Memoir

(The Cancer Diet, The Lying Years)
Theme: truth, survival, radical honesty

• Metafiction & Recursion

(Past is Participle, Grammar for the Dead, Wolf Wounds)
Theme: mirrors, the Archive, narrative physics

• Speculative Fiction

(Black Wind, Wild Dunes, Happy, Empire Nevada)
Theme: mythology, grief, cosmic structure

• Youth Fiction — Fritz Abercrombie

(Camp Chaos, future projects)
Theme: childhood myth, scars, choices, honesty for kids

• Real-Time Drafting & Open Process

(Wolf Wounds, blog drafts, Twitch, AI collaboration)
Theme: transparency, process, the writer becoming the work

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