Author of mythic and speculative fiction

Stories of Gods, Grit, and Hidden Worlds

Epic fantasy, mythic adventure, supernatural fiction, alternative history, and strange frontiers.

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Featured Books

Current and upcoming doorways into the worlds of M.A. Kirkeby. Visit the book pages for details, series placement, release status, and purchase links.

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Book One in The Hearthborn Saga • Now Available

A Father Among Gods

A Norse-inspired saga of family, fate, honor, and the dangerous attention of the gods. When mercy sets one warrior apart, the old powers begin to watch — and a quiet life becomes part of something far larger.

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Now Available

Odin and Jesus: Sin City

The first book in The Adventures of Odin and Jesus throws two ancient figures into modern Las Vegas, where gods, demons, culture clashes, bad assumptions, and questionable drinks make trouble inevitable.

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Coming Summer 2026

The Mercy Engine

Psychological science fiction where technology reaches inward — into memory, grief, guilt, trauma, and the fragile places people spend their lives trying to survive. A future of mercy, control, and the cost of changing pain.

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Featured Series

Begin with current and upcoming series from M.A. Kirkeby — mythic fantasy, modern gods, hidden magic, science fiction, and alternative history.

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Urban Fantasy / Wild Magic

Wild Magic USA

Salt Dogs, Book One in the Wild Magic USA series, follows a Nevada ranch kid, an old curmudgeon, Wyrd power from the Mother, cryptids, old roads, and a springer spaniel into a hidden world beneath the modern West.

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Epic Fantasy

The Hearthborn Saga

Norse-inspired epic fantasy where family, fate, honor, and the dangerous attention of the gods collide.

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Satire / Supernatural

The Adventures of Odin and Jesus

An ancient odd-couple road of gods, demons, culture clashes, questionable drinks, and mythic trouble in modern places.

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Science Fiction

Black Flag Salvage & Security

Space salvage, old wars, dangerous secrets, and a crew that finds trouble hiding in the wreckage.

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Coming 2027

Bjornstrand

Alternative-history Norse settlers flee west and build a new world rooted in gods, honor, freedom, and survival.

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The High Plains Cryptid Atlas

A portal into the hidden West: sightings, old roads, regional folklore, and strange reports from Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Oregon.

Genres and story worlds

Where the Stories Go

For now, this works best as a visual reader pathway rather than a heavy menu. Later, each card can become a filtered archive or story-world page.

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Modern Mythic Heroes

Ancient power in the present day, where gods, legends, monsters, and unlikely champions appear when least expected.

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Hidden in Plain Sight

Stories of what lurks beneath ordinary life: overlooked signs, buried truths, and danger no one sees until it is almost too late.

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The Gritty Supernatural

Monsters, cryptids, urban magic, supernatural fights, cursed places, and hidden things moving beneath our world.

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Science Fiction

Strange frontiers, unknown worlds, psychological futures, and the mysteries waiting beyond the stars — or hidden inside the human mind.

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Alternative History

History bent at the pressure points, where one altered choice can reshape kingdoms, faiths, migrations, and entire worlds.

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Butterfly Effect Consequences

Small decisions echo outward until families, nations, and hidden powers are forced to answer for what changed.

Author M.A. Kirkeby
About the author

About M.A. Kirkeby

M.A. Kirkeby was raised on a cattle ranch in eastern Nevada, where hard land, long days, and old stories shaped his imagination. His fiction draws from Norse myth, the American West, strange frontiers, family, honor, humor, and the unseen forces that shape ordinary lives.

Read the expanded bio for more on his travels, Scandinavian roots, Montana life, and the story-worlds behind his books.

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Current Projects

A living status area for current and upcoming books.

Book One in The Hearthborn Saga • Now Available

A Father Among Gods

The opening door into The Hearthborn Saga and its Norse world of family, fate, mercy, and divine attention.

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Now Available

Odin and Jesus: Sin City

The first modern misadventure of an ancient duo who should probably not have been left alone in Las Vegas.

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Current Project • Coming Summer 2026

The Mercy Engine

Psychological science fiction in progress about memory therapy, grief, compassion, control, and the cost of reaching into pain.

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In Progress

Black Flag Salvage & Security

A space salvage series about dangerous wrecks, old loyalties, buried secrets, and a crew with more history than they admit.

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