About
Bruce Kirkpatrick writes clean, wholesome books with a hint of social commentary wrapped in a love story. Site line: Writing Stories to Inspire. Santa Barbara author. Thirty-plus years in Silicon Valley as an executive and entrepreneur, most recently advertising and public relations for international clients, writing about high-tech so people could understand it.
After the move to Southern California he splits time between fiction, non-fiction, and nonprofit boards: Christian Education Development Company and Extollo International, training Haitian men and women in employable skills.
First novel: Hard Left, 2007. Latest: Madelyn Stone Surrounded, a novel of politics. Also Anyone But Me (Haiti), Raising God’s Gen Z Teen, The Carnival Chemist and Other Stories, The Resurrection of Johnny Roe, Lumberjack Jesus.
On the About page he writes that he loves God, good craft beer, his wife, his two children, his daughter-in-law, and his two grandchildren, not necessarily in that order. Blog posts from Santa Barbara mention a stolen check in the neighborhood, Scotland and Closeburn Castle, a granddaughter born in Tucson.