About the Authors
With decades of experience in nearly aspect of the publishing industry, Bruce Gehweiler and C.J. Henderson are uniquely qualified to teach you how to become a fiction writer.
Bruce Gehweiler
Bruce Gehweiler is a writer, editor, and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and non-fiction. As a writer he won the Dragon*Con Amateur Writing Contest and placed with an Honorable Mention in The Writers of the Future Contest in 1992. Since this launch year, Bruce has sold over thirty short stories to magazines such as Inhuman and The Book of Dark Wisdom and anthologies such as Hear Them Roar edited by Patrick Thomas and C.J. Henderson. Bruce has also authored the non-fiction book Profitable Publishing, How to Start a Home-Based Publishing Business. He recently sold a short story collection, Where Angels Fear co-authored by C.J. Henderson, to Elder Signs Press.
In 1996, Bruce founded Marietta Publishing. He has since edited and published six chapbooks including The Dog Syndrome & Other Sick Puppies by Tom Piccirilli, and twenty books including the novels Last Resort by Wendy Webb, Renfield by Lawrence Barker, God Drug by Stephen L. Antczak, and The Things That Are Not There by C.J. Henderson. He has edited the anthologies New Mythos Legends, Frontiers of Terror, and Crypto-Critters, volumes I and II, published by Padwolf Publishing.
Since 2005, Bruce has been consulting new publishers such as Spyre Books, Seek Ye First Publishing, Hickory Crest Publishing and The Elf on the Shelf children’s book publishing project (www.elfontheshelf.com). He also teaches new writers and publishers through Marietta Community Schools (www.mariettacommunityschool.com), over the internet, seminars and appearances at major genre conventions nationwide.
C.J. Henderson
C.J. is the creator of the Jack Hagee hardboiled detective series, and the Teddy London supernatural detective series. His first sale, the short story “Dawson Did It,” was placed in Questar magazine some thirty years ago. Since then he has sold well over 150 more stories as well as scores of comics, some fifty books (many of these ghost written for celebrities), and thousands of non-fiction articles. His non-fiction books have been as varied as Career Opportunities in the Military to titles such as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies and Black Sabbath: The Ozzy Osborne Years.
In comics, he has worked for a variety of companies, getting to handle characters as uniquely different from one another as Archie and Batman, or the Punisher and Cherry PopTart. He still writes comics today, although now he concentrates almost exclusively on comics based on his own characters.
He has also done a great deal of license work, doing comics, short stories and novels for such properties as The Munsters, Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak, The Spider, Kolchak: the Nightstalker, VIP, Quantum Leap, H.P. Lovecraft’s Inspector Legrasse, and many others.
C.J. has also served as both a book and film reviewer for publications around the world for more than thirty years. His reviews have been published on three continents in five languages.
To learn more about C.J., to read some of his short stories, check out his up-coming projects, or to consider purchasing one of his other works, do feel free to stop in at www.cjhenderson.com. In his three decades of serving the public, he has yet to leave a piece of fan mail unanswered.
That he knows of, anyway.