John David Buchanan

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John David Buchanan

17 Published BooksJohn David Buchanan

I grew up in San Antonio, Texas watching science fiction cartoons on television and acting out adventures in my backyard. At the age of 8 I published a small comic strip that my cousin and I briefly marketed to the neighborhood. By middle school I had my first set of drums and a band. In high school I played sports, joined another band, and watched all the science fiction programming available on television. I attended college at Southwest Texas State University, and it was there that I discovered creative writing. Six years later I graduated with a Masters in Science and began my career as an environmental specialist. To address my love of music I joined a Pink Floyd cover band - Anybody Out There? - and began writing lyrics for a solo CD. When my young daughter began reading a series of fiction books I read them with her, and that ignited my desire to write a science fiction book. the result - Jump Starting the Universe, the first book in a series by the same name. The second book, The Edge of Nothing and Everything, was released in May 2016. Book 3 of the series - World Eaters - was published December 2017.

I've been to London several times and began toying with the idea of writing a historical fiction novel with a twist. The result was The Obsession of Dr. Pendergrass, published May 30, 2018. Since then I've published two more books in the series; Spring-heeled Jack, and Sarah Shelley and the Deadly Aperitifs.