About Faber Lewis

I’m Faber Lewis, though if you found me somewhere on the internet first, there’s a pretty good chance you know me as King Faber.

I’m a writer, singer, veteran, and chronic collector of creative projects. I write stories about complicated people. People carrying things they don’t quite know how to put down, trying to figure out how to love and be loved anyway.

Creativity has always been a part of who I am, but for a while, I lost touch with it. After years in the Army, finding my way back to writing and music wasn't as simple as picking up where I'd left off. Being creative was something I had to relearn.

Eventually, that process led me back to singing, back to writing, and, unexpectedly, to sharing pieces of my life with a whole lot of people on the internet.

These days, when I'm not writing, I'm usually singing. And while those might seem like two different creative outlets, they come from a pretty similar place for me. I’m drawn to things that make you feel something. A lyric that lands differently than you expected, a character who feels a little too real, or a story that stays with you after you've closed the book.

I live and write in Oregon, where life outside of creating includes family, fitness, far too many projects, and occasionally trying to keep my goats where they're supposed to be.

I wrote as a kid.

It started as a hobby, but writing was also one of the first things I remember being told I was genuinely good at. I wasn't necessarily the kid who excelled at everything in school, but writing was different. It gave me somewhere to go when I needed to get out of my own head.

Then I joined the Army, and somewhere along the way, I stopped.

After leaving the military, I found myself trying to write again. Not because I had a publishing plan or even necessarily because I thought I was writing a book, but because I needed a way to process some of the things I'd experienced.

I started putting words on a page.

And eventually, those words became What Time Can't Take.

Maybe that's why I'm drawn to the stories I am now. I write about complicated people dealing with grief, love, trauma, identity, and the strange process of figuring out who you are after life has changed you.

My fiction centers women and queer relationships, but the love story is only part of what interests me. I want to write about the lives happening around that love—the friendships, losses, families, mistakes, and small moments that slowly put a person back together.

Writing isn't my only creative outlet.

Music was another piece of myself I had to find again after the Army. Singing eventually became a huge part of the community I've built online, alongside writing, videos, and whatever else I've decided to create that week.

Music influences the way I think about storytelling more than I probably realize. I love that a song can tell an entire emotional story in a few minutes. I'm drawn to that same feeling when I write. The quiet details, the lines that carry more weight than they seem to, and the moments where something doesn't need to be explained for you to understand it.

Outside of creating, I spend a lot of my time around fitness and CrossFit, getting outside, working on whatever house project I've convinced myself I can do, and living a life that rarely seems to involve sitting still.

My books are stories about women finding their way through love, loss, and everything that happens in between.

You can expect complicated characters, slow-burn relationships, found family, humor in places it probably shouldn't exist, and emotional stories that aren't afraid to sit with the difficult parts of being human.

And while romance matters, I'm just as interested in who these women become along the way.

My first novel, What Time Can't Take, follows Emily “Boss” and Lina, two women whose lives keep pulling them back toward one another despite years of grief, heartbreak, and choices that have taken them in different directions.

At its heart, it's a story about what survives, and what happens when you finally stop running long enough to find out.

What Time Can’t Take is coming soon. Join my email list to be the first to know when it’s available and to get updates along the way.

King Faber started because I was trying to find my way back to myself.

After coming home from my time in the Army, I wanted an outlet that could help me reconnect with the creative side of myself I'd lost touch with. It was harder than I expected. I'd spent years in an environment where seriousness, structure, and discipline were part of everyday life, and suddenly being creative again felt like something I had to learn how to do.

So, I started trying.

King Faber became the place where I could do that.

Little by little, it led me back to singing. Back to writing. Back to making things simply because I wanted to make them. And eventually, it became a place where I could share all of that, and my life, with my people on the internet.

In a way, the name ended up representing something much bigger than I ever intended when I started using it. It became the creative outlet I was looking for in the first place.

Today, King Faber is the larger creative world around what I do. The music, videos, community, and pieces of my life I share online.