John C. Bruening
@jcbruening
At any given moment: Dad. Husband. Writer. Reader. Editor. Publisher. Marketer. Artist. Creator.
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Tell me something I don’t know.
(The numbers in this Publishers Weekly article don’t lie. If you’re in it for the money, you’re in the wrong place.)
#writing #indieauthor #indiepublisher #smallpresspublishing #amwriting #writing community #PublishersWeekly
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Spending my Saturday in a quiet room in my local branch of Cuyahoga Library, writing tales of adventure. My standing gig every weekend for the next several months, and probably my most productive day of the week.
#CuyahogaCountyPublicLibrary #amwriting
Two writers born on this day (September 21) about eighty years apart: H.G. Wells (1866) and Stephen King (1947). Two tellers of scary stories, each in their own way.
#HGWells #StephenKing #sciencefiction #horrorfiction #amreading #amwriting
Comic book artist Joe Kubert, born September 18, 1926. Kubert drew numerous characters for DC Comics — Hawkman, Sgt. Rock, Tarzan and more — from the late ‘40s to the mid ‘80s.
#JoeKubert #Hawkman , #Tarzan , #SgtRock , #DCComics , #comicbookartists
Hey, #WritingCommunity ! Another Friday! What’s everyone working on this weekend?
Me: Finishing touches on a story pitch for Robert J Mendenhall’s CODE NAME: INTREPID series.
You: ??
#amwriting #indieauthor #CodeNameIntrepid
Born on this day (September 7) just a few years apart: Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins (1930) and rockabilly guitarist/songwriter Buddy Holly (1936). Holly died in a plane crash in 1959. Rollins is still alive (but retired) at 93.
#SonnyRollins #BuddyHolly #jazz #rockandroll
September 6 is National Read a Book Day. I’m still working my way through this one. What are you reading?
#NationalReadABookDay #reading #TheDevilInTheWhiteCity #ErikLarson #amreading
NE Ohio folks: I’ll be at the North Coast Indie Author Book Expo later this month (9/24) with dozens of other authors at the Residence Inn in Avon, OH. Stop by and say hello!
#NorthCoastIndieAuthorBookExpo #MidnightGuardian #FlinchBooks #indieauthor #indiepublisher #amwriting
Edgar Rice Burroughs, born September 1, 1875.
“If you write one story, it may be bad. If you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.”
#EdgarRiceBurroughs #Tarzan #Barsoom #Pellucidar #amreading
Novelist Mary Shelley, author of FRANKENSTEIN, born August 30, 1797. She created a monster when she was just nineteen years old. More than 200 years later, no one’s been able to kill it.
#MaryShelley #Frankenstein #gothichorror #amreading
Next from the bottomless reading pile, from Erik Larson.
#TheDevilInTheWhiteCity #ErikLarson #amreading
July 30 is National Paperback Book Day. If you’re looking for something to read in honor of the occasion, please allow me this brief moment of shameless self-promotion.
#NationalPaperbackBookDay #FlinchBooks #westernfiction #amwriting #amreading
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Great to see Chicago magazine recognize Mac's Backs Books in Cleveland Hts, OH, as one of the best indie bookstores in the Midwest. (And Loganberry Books in CLE gets an honorable mention too.)
#MacsBacksBooks #LoganberryBooks #indiebookstores #amreading #amwriting
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Two excellent Western anthologies this summer! I co-edited the one on the left and contributed stories to both. (Thanks to @writermillhouse of Stormgate Press for giving me a slot in his book.)
#FlinchBooks #StormgatePress #CharlesFMillhouse #westernfiction #amwriting
Artist Virgil Finlay, born July 23, 1914. Finlay specialized in sci-fi, fantasy and horror illustration for pulp magazines from the 1930s to the ‘50s. He’s best known for pen-and-ink drawings that illustrated interior pages.
#VirgilFinlay #pulpart ist #pulpart #pulpillustration
