About Bruce
When I was a teen in the ’70s, the roar of America’s bicentennial zeal ignited a flame in me to write. Tapping the rich Revolution history that lay at my doorstep in Baltimore, I submitted an essay to the local VFW post that took first place in their Voice of Democracy contest. Pleasure with history soon turned to dramatization. My script for House of the Lord—the compelling saga of trial and devotion in the erection of the first Latter Day Saint temple—was selected for production on the outdoor theater grounds of its National Historic Landmark site in Kirtland, Ohio. My path for bringing the past to life was set.
I learned an important lesson early on. The attention of readers to your words is not an instant entitlement, but the natural product of a life spent sharpening skills. Proficiency in writing evolved for me over years in big business information development. A technical writer is the industrial Anonymous whose temporal poetry must still win audience credibility, and it does so through precision and clarity of words. My published content on software behavior and hardware installation wasn’t for Shakespeare fans, but it increased my skill in drafting works with solid beginnings, middles, and ends.
No works have been more satisfying to write than the ones tapping the themes that inspire me. In high school, I became enamored with Latin America, and in the ’70s began visiting pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico and greater Mesoamerica. When I moved to Austin, this fascination became a lens through which I began exploring the origins of Texans and their cultures, and my historical interests expanded into the Spanish colonial-era sites of Mexico and Central America. Most everything I write now engages the complex story of the Americas, and my first book, The Inquisition of Stephen F. Austin, presents the historical research that opened into original investigation and discovery.
Over the last decade, I’ve survived the transition from writer to full-time author, taking on projects that consistently blend a love for history, family, and self-expression. Visit my pages to see writings that I’m proud to own and happy to share—and be sure to check out the exciting news of my new novel, To the Republic: BOOK ONE. That’s my story so far, with many pages left to write.
What’s yours?