Bruce Buchanan's influences range from the novels of Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman and Stephen King to the Marvel Comics stories of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko. Bruce is the author of several anthology short stories as well as the new adult fantasy novel The Blacksmith's Boy (Aug. 2025) and the adult superhero novel The Return of the Cerulean Blur (2026), both from Wild Ink Publishing. The Queen's Daughter, a sequel to The Blacksmith's Boy, will be published later this year. Bruce lives in Greensboro, N.C. with his wife, Amy Joyner Buchanan (the author of five non-fiction books), their college student son, Jackson, and their two beloved cats, Felix and Susan.