Drew Bruce

Drew Bruce writes books about thinking clearly — then goes home to two Great Danes who have never once considered the consequences of eating an entire sofa cushion.

He is the author of The Practical Thinker series: Diagrams That Speak: A Practical Guide to Visual Communication and Well, That Didn't Work: A Practical Guide to Solving Problems — Including the Ones You're Making Worse. Two books built on one premise: you're not stupid, you just weren't taught this stuff. (A third is in revision, because apparently he can't take his own advice about finishing things before starting new ones.)

He also writes fiction with Hugh C. Gray. Their Ancients of Tomorrow trilogy — Uterra, The City Below, and The President's Man — is what happens when two people who should probably be working on something sensible decide to build a world instead.

His latest project — and the one currently devouring most of his evenings — is the Vault-Walker Series, beginning with Vault of Ash. A slum-born boy bonds illegally to two strands of forbidden magic during a tax riot, and every empire on the map decides it wants him captured, controlled, or quietly killed. Buried civilisations. Costs that come due. The kind of decisive choices Drew himself would never make — which is, he's told, the entire point of fiction.

Drew lives with Freya, a Great Dane of considerable opinions, and her son Hamish, who has inherited every one of them. Between the four paws on his desk and the two on his keyboard, it's a miracle anything gets published at all.