Brandon Cox is a network and systems administrator from rural Indiana with a lifelong fascination for the points where technology and humanity intersect. He has spent his life surrounded by signals, electrical, digital, and human, and has always been drawn to the quiet spaces between them. When he’s not writing, he’s usually building, repairing, or quietly observing the invisible systems that connect us all.

His debut novel, The Unraveling, was written during a time when the world felt unbearably loud. Notifications, opinions, and expectations filled every moment, until the things that truly mattered became difficult to hear. The story became a way to silence that noise, a meditation on connection, loss, and rediscovery in a world overwhelmed by information.

For Brandon, writing has always been a kind of signal, a way to reach through the static. He’s loved reading since childhood and dreamed of writing a book of his own one day. When his mother saw The Unraveling for the first time, she said,

“Oh my gosh, Brandon, you’ve wanted to do this since you were little—and now you have.”

That moment was a quiet kind of arrival, the fulfillment of a lifelong transmission finally received.

At its core, The Lumen Archive is more than a story about collapse; it’s a reflection on the fragile connections that hold us together, and the courage it takes to listen when the world grows too loud.