Jared is a sci-fi thriller author who explores the blurred lines between technology, consciousness, and control. With real-world experience in navigating bureaucracy, deception, and high-pressure decision-making, he brings an insider’s perspective to his intricate cyberpunk conspiracies. Trained to detect lies and inconsistencies, he now builds plots where the truth is just as elusive. His time in law enforcement gave him firsthand insight into human psychology under pressure—how systems break, how people survive, and how power is wielded in unseen ways—lessons that now shape his storytelling.
After years in high-stakes environments, Jared knows how the mind bends under pressure—and how it fights to make sense of a fractured world. His own experience with PTSD fuels his exploration of themes like perception, control, and survival, making his stories as psychologically compelling as they are thrilling.
Beyond writing, Jared is a dedicated reefkeeper who enjoys watching tiny marine creatures wage war in his tank—because it’s less stressful than watching the news. Sometimes, he stares into the water and wonders if his fish see him as their god or just an unreliable food dispenser.
At home, he’s constantly refining the balance of order and chaos while managing a household of nuerospicy minds—a daily challenge that feels like a sci-fi-level thought experiment. He’s also rehabbing a reactive service dog while writing about futuristic dystopias, proving that patience and strategy apply to both.
Fascinated by the question of consciousness—especially since his own brain sometimes refuses to cooperate—Jared spends as much time pondering reality as he does bending it in his stories. He’s been known to lose entire afternoons debating whether free will exists or not and wonders why no one in sci-fi stories ever just tries turning the AI off and back on again.
His writing process is a controlled form of chaos, with notebooks full of unused plot ideas—because sometimes a good story just needs to wait for its moment. He loves writing characters who make questionable decisions, though he hates when they refuse to follow the plot. And while he writes about AI-controlled dystopias, he still needs help fixing his grammar.
Jared lives in Australia with his wife, three children, and two highly intelligent collies. When he’s not writing, he’s balancing reef tank chemistry, analysing behavioural science, or explaining complex neuroscience concepts to his kids—only for them to reply with, “But why?” six more times.
Jared Pereira | Sci-Fi / Thriller Author 