Brandon L. Rucker is a lifelong bookworm, music nerd and comic book geek and has been at various times a published author of articles, blogs, columns, poems, stories and reviews, as well as a performing musician, music producer and recording artist. He has even spent a few years as a short story editor.
A child of the early 1970s, Rucker hails from the Midwest region of the USA where the summers are insufferably humid and the winters increasingly unbearable. He lives with his nuclear family and an assortment of pets. Armed with grammar, diction and a strong sense of rhythm and melody, he is at large and potentially dangerous.
See below for a list of credits.
BOOK:
Local Heroes – editor/compiler, print anthology of selected stories, 2011
STORIES (15):
“Four Deep” – DEAD GUNS PRESS, 2015
“Call of Duty: A Cop’s Tale” – LOCAL HEROES, 2011
“The Underneath” – LIKE FROZEN STATUES OF FLESH, 2011
“All In a Day’s Work” – LIKE FROZEN STATUES OF FLESH, 2011
“Finder Kept” – BEST LEFT BURIED, 2011
“Hard At Work” – DAILY FLASHES OF EROTICA, 2010
“On Shadowy Ground” – THRILLER!, 2010
“Suggestion” – MIRROR MAGAZINE, 2010 [defunct]
“Shard” – A PINT OF BLOODY FICTION, 2010
“All Things Considered” – THE CEDAR CHEST, 2010
“Pieces of Candice” – MADNESS OF THE MIND, 2010
“The Company You Keep” – BLINK|INK, 2010 [defunct]
“The End” – BLINK|INK, 2010 [defunct]
“Mass Graves: A Story of Haiti” – CROSSED GENRES, 2010
“Never Again” – Z END ZINE, 1999 [defunct]
POEMS (6):
“Dream a Little Scream of Me” – DREAMS AND SCREAMS, 2010
“Transcendental” – LIQUID IMAGINATION, 2010
“Body” – LIQUID IMAGINATION, 2010
“Succubus” – STATIC MOVEMENT SPECIAL No. 2, 2009
“Mare of the Night” – STATIC MOVEMENT SPECIAL No. 2, 2009
“Tapestry” – VoiCE, 1996 [defunct]
ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
(A Partial Listing):
“From Horse to Mouse: Speculating the Star Wars Comics Transfer” – BLEEDING COOL, 2014
“A Conversation with Bob Thurber – Part 2” – LIQUID IMAGINATION, 2011
“The Rucker Report: Applying Advice” – FLASH FICTION CHRONICLES, 2011
“A Conversation with Bob Thurber – Part 1” – LIQUID IMAGINATION, 2011
“20 Questions with Chris Bartholomew” – LIQUID IMAGINATION, 2011
“The Synergy of Poetry and Music” – LIQUID IMAGINATION, 2011
VOICE READING:
“Grave Invitation” by Bob Thurber, read by Brandon Rucker – LIQUID IMAGINATION, 2011
EDITORIAL CREDITS:
LIQUID IMAGINATION online webzine (Flash Fiction Editor — Oct 2010 – Aug 2013)
STATIC MOVEMENT (Compiler/Editor — Local Heroes anthology, Nov 2011)
ZOETROPE: ALL-STORY EXTRA #22 & 23 (Guest Editor — May 2000 & June 2000)
Lost Signal 