Bruce lives just outside of Philadelphia with his wife and four children. In addition to writing, he enjoys baseball, playing guitar, reading, church, cooking and being a dad. Bruce grew up at the Jersey Shore (the picture is at Point Pleasant Beach, where Sands of Time is set) and graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, NJ where he first became enthralled with reading and writing. From his early influences Bruce was introduced to and fell in love with Shakespeare, Marlow, Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne.Bruce has published the vampire thriller Sands of Time, the paranormal murder mystery Towering Pines Volume One: Room 509, the heart-warming story of how God selected The Star of Christmas, has a story in the horror anthology Bump in the Night 2010 and 2011 -- plus the Kindle only offerings -- the historical mystery of Sweet Nessie, the story of the undead performing at the Walnut Theater The Show Must Go On, and the top selling short-story Best Friends Forever about two friends who have been kidnapped by a secretive cult.