L.J. Wesley is a Hungarian author who writes romance and women's fiction. He is known for the novel Brooke: My body, my prison (2025) and earlier works such as Egy űrállomás-takarító naplója (2017) and Hetedhét Birodalom (2020). His most popular title to date is the 2018 version of Brooke, released in Hungarian.
L.J. Wesley was born in November 1985 in Fejér County and grew up in the village of Cece. His parents and grandparents read books, and he has said that “the love of reading came early”. He wrote his first poem in primary school and won a special prize at the UTI competition the following year. During high school and university, he stopped writing but read more than before. Later, he wrote poems for his own enjoyment.
In 2016, Wesley entered a short story competition and uploaded the text to Wattpad. Readers encouraged him, and the work became his first collection, Monkeys. That same year he started a diary novel titled Egy űrállomás-takarító naplója. He sent the unfinished manuscript to publishers, and it appeared in March 2017 under the Colorcom imprint.
The short story collection Afférok was published in November 2017. A month later, the full version was released: 'Egy űrállomás-takarító naplója — A teljes tudósitás'. In late 2016, Wesley started another project as a writing exercise. The book was called Brooke: A Testem a börtönöm and was published in 2018.
He also published Skicc (2018), a workbook featuring short exercises and vocabulary to learn. He moved to Ireland in 2019. That year, the English version of A Space Station Swabber's Diary and the book 12 sixths randi were published.
His longest book so far is the fantasy novel Hetedhét Birodalom (2020), which was the first to be sold in shops. In 2021, he wrote short stories again with O.N.S. — Egyéjszakás kaland.
Brooke (2025) is the latest in a series of books about a character first introduced in 2018. It tells the story of Brooke after an accident that leaves her in a coma, but her mind is still awake. People have described the novel as "raw, heart-wrenching, and unexpectedly uplifting," highlighting its themes of memory, love, and the will to recover.
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