Eric Hepler is an author and healthcare professional whose career has taken him around the world. His vast experiences both within and beyond his profession deeply influence his worldview and his storytelling.

From the Author:

I have done a variety of jobs, farming, construction, building bridges and houses, digging graves (the legal way, working in a cemetery). I have spent several years working at a crisis pregnancy center, working with abused children, pregnant teens and children of drug addict parents. And 3 Universities later and I started a career in healthcare. That has taken me around the world. I have been a guest lecturer at several medical schools. I have been extremely blessed to work with some of the smartest and most talented people, who have the biggest hearts to help sick patients. I have stood shoulder to shoulder with some incredible docs wearing heavy lead coats for 18+ hours, doing everything we knew to do to try to save a patient’s life.

In my first year in healthcare, I was transporting patients in a hospital when I was assigned to a team to transport a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit patient. She was a 5-year-old girl who was the victim of child abuse. She was in really bad shape. The doctors and nurses were taking the best care of her that they possibly could, but she died during transport. That was the first human that I saw die right in front of me.

I have worked in healthcare for 33 years and helped doctors to save thousands of lives, but I will never forget that little girl. That was also when I started writing In the Light of Every Morning, which may explain the symbolism of a child dying in Senitiya’s arms in the first chapter.

Sci-fi with Heart and Soul…

Eric’s writing uses imagination to explore real human experiences. Drawing from a life shaped by hard work and altruistic service, he creates speculative worlds that allow readers to step back from reality and see it more clearly. Through science fiction, he invites readers on a journey between the extraordinary and the deeply personal, where imagined futures carry the weight of real lives and human connection remains at the center of every story.