Bruce Buchanan is the communications writer for an international law firm and a former journalist. But he’s been a fan of fantasy and heroic fiction for most of his life. His influences range from the novels of Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman and Terry Brooks to the Marvel Comics stories of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko. Bruce is the author of the NA fantasy novel The Blacksmith’s Boy (2025) and the upcoming adult superhero novel The Return of the Cerulean Blur (2026), both from Wild Ink Publishing.