Ken Lizzi


Kenneth Allan Lizzi Jr. is an American lawyer and writer of speculative and crime fiction. He writes as Ken Lizzi.

Biography

Lizzi was born March 21, 1969, in Los Angeles County, California, son of Kenneth Allan Lizzi Sr., and Barbara Kay Becraft. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, attending high school in West Linn, and college at Portland State University. As an adult he has served in the military and made his living as an attorney, writing on the side. He lived in Portland with his wife Isa, a native of Mexico, and daughter Victoria Valentina, until moving his family from Oregon to Texas in 2022, where they presently live in Houston. He collects paperback novels and antique weapons and enjoys reading, homebrewing, cooking, exercise, and travel.

Literary career

Lizzi's self-proclaimed goal as a writer "is to help infuse a pulp sensibility into 21st Century fiction." He cites as influences Robert E. Howard, Raymond Chandler, Fritz Leiber, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, among others. His work has been published by Dark Horse Books, Short-Story.me, PulpEmpire; DeepWood Publishing, Kerlak Publishing, PulpCorner.com, Twilight Times Books, Aratus Scrivenery, and Aethon Books.

Cesar the Bravo

  • "Bravo"
  • "The Fire Demon—or Brava"
  • "The Quarto Volume, or Knowledge, Good and Evil"
  • "The Bronze Helm"
  • "The Red Hat"
  • "Witch Hunt"
  • ''Cesar the Bravo''

Falchion's Company

  1. Boss
  2. Captain
  3. ''Warlord''

Semi-Autos and Sorcery

  1. Blood and Jade
  2. Santa Anna's Sword
  3. Obsidian Owl
  4. ''Silver and Bone''

Other novels

Other short fiction

  • "The Value of Proper Intelligence to Any Successful Military Campaign is Not to be Underestimated"
  • "Trustworthy"
  • "Breaking the Line"
  • Savage Journal
  • Murder Extempore
  • "Bargains"
  • "Escapement"
  • "Resource"
  • "Mischosen", and Cosmic Scream )
  • "Copperhead Road"
  • "House Odds"
  • Ursula Bruin
  • "Folgin the Grim: Retribution"