Sean Carey

Author – Martial Artist – Teacher

Some stories take years to find their moment. This one took fifteen.

Sean Carey is a martial artist, teacher, and author currently based in Wisconsin. He has spent over 40 years in martial arts, 30 of them dedicated to American Kenpo — training students who have gone on to become practitioners and instructors in their own right. That depth of physical practice — the hours on the mat, the decades of refinement, the understanding of how a body moves under pressure and why — is the foundation everything in the Nine Cuts series is built on. When Kane reads an opponent’s posture, when he finds the Void, when he commits to a technique without hesitation, that knowledge comes from somewhere real.

Sean has multiple non-fiction books in publication, including works on herbalism and cryptocurrency. Fiction, however, was always the longer game — an idea that needed time to become what it was going to be.

The Nine Cuts is that idea, finally on the page.

The series follows Kane Kurosawa, a martial artist drawn into a role he didn’t ask for across worlds seeded from Earth’s own history. Nine books. Nine worlds. A magical system rooted in real tradition. And the very human question of what happens when the person you trusted most turns out to be something you never saw coming.

Book One — The Demon of Strength — is in final editing and will be available soon. Book Two is already underway.

Walk well between the worlds.