About

Who Is Adam?

A regular guy with an overactive imagination. He grew up in a farmhouse on fifteen acres in a suburb of Flint, Michigan. (Nope, nowhere near the water crisis.) He loved to explore the woods and imagine he was a world-renowned explorer. He climbed trees and fancied he was at the top of the mast on a pirate’s ship.

Out of these imaginings sprang fun stories he longed to get down on paper. English came easily for him, but soccer didn’t, especially when he pulled his Achilles tendon. In high school, Mrs. Forsmark, his English teacher, was kind and long-suffering enough to read his juvenile offerings, but her words of encouragement fanned the flame. While others played basketball, he wrote stories. In high school, he finished an Agatha Christie copycat called Down with the Ship and won a Christian school state creative writing contest. Maybe there was something to this writing thing after all.

College opened a whole new world of experiences and exposure to published mentors who willingly passed on their knowledge. He spent more long hours of filling spiral notebooks with story after story, though he chose a journalism degree to find a job that would pay the bills. More awards: winner of an extemporaneous essay context, finalist in a hymn-text writing contest. He published his first short stories in Sunday school papers, but he longed for more.

Single in Chicagoland, he published more stories and wrote several unpublished novels. He found his girl and kept writing amid diapers and life changes. Finally, in 2007, God gave him his first novel contract, Fatal Illusions, and he hasn’t looked back.

Formal Biography

Award-winning novelist Adam Blumer enjoys using the avenue of fiction writing to explore creepy lighthouses and crime scenes. An Amazon bestselling author of Christian Mystery & Suspense, he is the author of several clean Christian thrillers, including Fatal Illusions and Kill Order. He is actively working on his next novel.

A print journalism major in college, he served as a book editor after serving in editorial roles for more than thirty years. He lives in southern Wisconsin with his wife, two daughters, and an active beagle. When he’s not working on his next thriller, he enjoys reading, hiking in the woods, learning new chords on his guitar, and serving in the music ministry at his church. He is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and The Christian PEN. He works with literary agent Cyle Young of Hartline Literary Agency.