Marion G. Harmon is an American author of superhero fiction, a former Las Vegas financial advisor with a bachelor's in literature and a master's in history, the latter earned, as he puts it, for pleasure rather than profit, because history is all of the stories.
He came up with the idea for Wearing the Cape in 2009 and indie-published it in 2011 largely so he'd stop rewriting it, whereupon it climbed to number one in its Amazon category and stayed there through most of 2012, launching one of the defining series of prose superhero fiction.
Its heroine is Hope Corrigan, a Chicago freshman whose superhuman breakthrough in the Ashland Bombing earns her the code-name Astra and an invitation to join the Sentinels, the city's premier super-team, in a sharply thought-through world where superheroes join unions, have agents, and the most photogenic become literal supercelebrities.
Across ten books and spin-offs, including the vampire noir Bite Me: Big Easy Nights, the series won praise for making a trope-saturated genre feel both classic and new, gained audiobook editions from Tantor and translations abroad, and spawned its own Fate-based tabletop roleplaying game.
Now writing full time, Harmon still threatens to finish his deeply unserious space epic, Worst Contact.
