"Austin Chambers"
Teller of bad jokes. Creator of relatable characters. ⬅️ And it's a Mk 38...😉
Navy veteran P.K. O'Dell, aka "Austin Chambers," is the author of three series which blend disaster/doomsday and military thriller genres, including Cascadia Fallen, Blades of Grass, and Echoes of the Just.
The former Navy Department shipyard manager and his family live near the Hood Canal of Western Washington, but he not-so-secretly longs for the day his wife agrees to move somewhere with warmer, sunnier days. He did, after all, grow up in Austin! <Hook 'em Horns!> When he’s not pounding out words (and learning the business side of being an author), he tends to the chickens, watches Combat Kitty & Gracie kill vermin, and pretends to do chores. 🤣
He planned to move on to traditional mystery/police procedurals... but felt God moving him toward a new genre blend. In 2026, he's working to create a series that blends "grizzled ex-cop" thrillers with supernatural spiritual warfare in an old-fashioned good-must-stop-evil series (or two).
He's taking a break from "prepper" fiction — but it's likely that this newest series will ultimately lead to apocalypse stories in their truest form.
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The world needs more dad jokes:
"Some people think I'm addicted to brake fluid.......... But I can stop anytime..... <Is this thing on?>"
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Vermin hunting extraordinaire "Kitty" is also our "dog." Abandoned, he adopted us. And I soon learned he knows how to comfort severe depression. He doesn't like other animals, and he's earned a vote by helping me on the darkest day of my life.
988 — because you can't undo suicide.
