DJ’s favorite apocalyptic reads are The Road, Alas Babylon, One Second After, & the dystopian series Hunger Games. As an Apocalypse author, she hopes to find herself among these favorites for readers of all ages.
Bestselling Disaster & Apocalypse Author
DJ Cooper
Bestselling Disaster and Apocalypse Author DJ Cooper loves to read and write post-apocalyptic and disaster fiction. It all started with the Dystopia series of books she released in late 2014, and she has been going strong since. She released her 24th book in April 2024 and has many more to pen.
She also writes nonfiction prepper books and articles for her preparedness teams at Thrive Self-Reliance Initiative. That first title created a strong desire to learn more, leading her back to school, hoping to gain more perspective on the craft and the industry. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Science in Marketing. She spends her days studying for her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with a concentration in teaching. Her entrepreneurial spirit helps keep her creating, and she works in many facets of the publishing industry through Angry Eagle Publishing, LLC, which she opened in 2016. She hopes this educational path will help her provide professional services and instruction. She designs book covers and other graphics projects with Dauntless Cover Design and also gets to read many new favorites as a freelance editor.
DJ’s favorite apocalyptic reads are The Road, Alas Babylon, One Second After, & the dystopian series Hunger Games. As an Apocalypse author, she hopes to find herself among these favorites for readers of all ages.
DON’T WE ALL WISH TO HEAR…
“THEY’LL NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT YOU!”
One Day I dared to live what I’d dreamed of for years!
I raised my kids, who are wonderful; I wouldn’t trade one second of it. I worked a lifetime, it seemed, to always just get by. I had dreams, but I also had responsibilities. The writer in me had to wait; I delivered newspapers and pizza, worked in an office and in retail, did construction, and drove a school bus—better yet, a Limousine and even a truck—to take care of these responsibilities.
I have always loved to write, and I wrote anything that caught my interest: short stories, funny anecdotes, poetry. I wrote to the local newspaper editor and loved to see my name at the end of my letters.
I dreamed of writing a book one day—and not just any book—a post-apocalyptic one that had danced in my mind. One day, during some of my trucking downtime, I sat down at the computer and began to type. I had no idea where my musings would take me. I had not planned to write the book but simply started to write a story. In less than a month, my first book appeared for sale on Amazon.
And proud I was! Once it was out there, I re-read it and said to myself—Self… “Who the hell wrote this?” I found that there were some mistakes, and it seemed like I lacked some of the structure and grammatical skills I needed, after months of agonizing over it. Doing edit after edit, it is finally getting ready for a Re-re-re-release, and it seems pretty good. Now, with book numbers two, three, and four available, book five is still not out of the question. I write still books, blog posts, short stories, and other words in various writing and planning stages.
Emerging as a prominent author of the apocalypse and helping fellow authors, my life is immersed in the indie world, and I love the story and the journey.
Working on my blog now and freelancing for others has given me the time to chase yet another dream. This one to compliment the other, having just completed my BA in Creative Writing, graduating Magna Cum Laude, the Masters in Marketing, Suma Cum Laude. Now I am studying for a Master of Fine Arts. When people ask if I have any advice for them in their writing endeavors, I tell them—
DARE TO LIVE THAT DREAM…
I have never been happier with myself. Find all my other stuff.