<![CDATA[Tropic Press: J.C. Bruce: Books]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/s/book-newshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ekkd!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F098506a1-d9c3-4196-a7fa-2b24e5e91a79_400x400.pngTropic Press: J.C. Bruce: Bookshttps://www.jcbruce.com/s/book-newsSubstackThu, 06 Aug 2026 02:02:49 GMT<![CDATA[Follow the adventures of our own weird news reporter Alexander Strange]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/follow-the-adventures-of-our-ownhttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/follow-the-adventures-of-our-ownWed, 13 Aug 2025 21:30:00 GMT

When the going gets strange, Alexander Strange gets going.

These are the books in The Strange Files series, listed in order of publication. They are available for sale at all major online book retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Bookshop.org, BookBub, Thrift Books, and at our great Canadian friends and trade partners in Canada, K…

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]]><![CDATA[Order Your Copy of Scribbles From Space]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/order-your-copy-of-scribbles-fromhttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/order-your-copy-of-scribbles-fromWed, 13 Aug 2025 19:55:00 GMT

ORDER YOUR COPY OF SCRIBBLES

Sure, he looks like a dog. And he’s blue. But inside, he’s so much more. And he has things to tell us about our place in the universe. Spoiler alert: We’re not alone.

Scribbles From Space recounts Daxion Xantharix’s adventures on Earth, starting with his crash landing six decades ago to his ongoing efforts to avoid capture by the men in black.

There are s…

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]]><![CDATA[Winning Weird]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/winning-weirdhttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/winning-weirdWed, 13 Aug 2025 19:42:52 GMT

By CARLIE ADMIRE

Florida Weekly

J.C. Bruce has strange things going on.

A Naples journalist and author, when Bruce isn’t writing his Essential News column for Florida Weekly, you can find him working on “The Strange Files,” a series of six novels chronicling the mysterious adventures of his protagonist, Alexander Strange, America’s only reporter covering n…

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]]><![CDATA['Strange Timing' wins Book of the Year in annual Royal Palm Literary Awards]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/strange-timing-wins-book-of-the-yearhttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/strange-timing-wins-book-of-the-yearThu, 07 Aug 2025 17:23:00 GMT

I'm pleased to share that Strange Timing, the sixth book in my Strange Files series, received multiple awards at this year’s Royal Palm Literary Awards banquet sponsored by the Florida Writers Association.

It won BOOK OF THE YEAR out of all the published books in the competition. It also received Gold Medals in the genres of Thrillers and Science Fiction.

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]]><![CDATA[Books]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/bookshttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/booksMon, 02 Jun 2025 16:49:00 GMT

When the going gets strange, Alexander Strange gets going.

These are the books in The Strange Files series, listed in order of publication. They are available for sale at all major online book retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Bookshop.org, BookBub, Thrift Books, and at our great Canadian friends and trade partners in Canada, …

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]]><![CDATA[5-4-3-2-1...]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/5-4-3-2-1https://www.jcbruce.com/p/5-4-3-2-1Fri, 09 May 2025 11:47:32 GMT

Daxion Xantharix, a.k.a. Scribbles, is supposed to stay out in Neptunian space but he figures his robotic dog suit will be the perfect disguise to visit Earth. But when he collides with Elon Musk's roadster orbiting near Mars, he's propelled back in time and Gene Roddenberry's study. Now he wonders if he'll ever get home. And if he wants to.

That’s the p…

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]]><![CDATA[Cool as a Moose Egg]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/cool-as-a-moose-egghttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/cool-as-a-moose-eggThu, 01 May 2025 14:32:30 GMT

The space aliens needed a place to land to do their business. They picked the Florida panhandle. In deer season. What could go wrong?

Cool as a Moose Egg on AMAZON

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]]><![CDATA[The Code]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/the-codehttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/the-codeFri, 18 Apr 2025 19:16:38 GMT

There are codes, and then there are the nuclear codes. And there are those who have sworn an oath to keep them out of the wrong hands. But what if …

AMAZON

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]]><![CDATA[Start Your Book Publishing Journey]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/start-your-book-publishing-journeyhttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/start-your-book-publishing-journeyFri, 18 Apr 2025 19:05:23 GMT

There’s this old joke:

The comedian starts out saying: “Alright. Now I’m going to tell you the easy way to pay zero taxes on a million dollars.

“Step One: Make a million dollars…”

There is no Step Two. That’s the joke.

It comes to mind because of the topic at hand here: How do you go about publishing your own book?

Well, first you have to write a story peop…

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]]><![CDATA[Tour of Duty]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/tour-of-dutyhttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/tour-of-dutyTue, 15 Apr 2025 14:43:00 GMT

For eight days, newspaper editor J.C. Bruce and a group of other civilians traversed the country with the American military. They flew out to an aircraft carrier at sea and explored submarines in port. They witnessed live-fire assaults, Marine beach landings, and were rescued by Special Forces from the American Embassy in Nogoland. In a series of five r…

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]]><![CDATA[Kirkus Reviews Calls STRANGE TIMING ‘Highly Entertaining’]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/kirkus-reviews-calls-strange-timing-highly-entertaininghttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/kirkus-reviews-calls-strange-timing-highly-entertainingMon, 29 Jul 2024 15:46:00 GMT

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The influential Kirkus Reviews calls the sixth book in The Strange Files series — STRANGE TIMING — “A highly entertaining romp through high strangeness.”

Among other comments:

“Readers will encounter plenty of scenes of peril before the tale is told.”

“Over the course of this novel, Bruce delivers snappy dialogue and crackling …

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]]><![CDATA[Hot off the Presses. The Latest Adventure in The Strange Files Series is Out!]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/hot-off-the-presses-the-latest-adventure-in-the-strange-files-series-is-outhttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/hot-off-the-presses-the-latest-adventure-in-the-strange-files-series-is-outMon, 01 Jul 2024 14:20:00 GMT
Strange Timing

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So, the good news: Alexander Strange discovers he has a guardian angel.

Oddly: She’s from the future and she’s communicating to him through his shipboard mannequin, Mona.

Strange, right?

Now the bad news: His guardian angle is the one who needs protection. And Alexander must figure out how to save her — from the past.

But who better than …

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]]><![CDATA[Why I Decided to Write 'Scribbles From Space']]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/how-i-decided-to-write-about-thathttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/how-i-decided-to-write-about-thatTue, 04 Jun 2024 12:30:00 GMT

Since the publication of my latest novel, Strange Timing, I’d been fielding questions from fans of Alexander Strange’s adventures about when the next book would arrive.

I actually wrote Strange Timing in such a way that it could serve as a conclusion to the six-part series should I decide to move on to other projects. I wanted to leave the door open to f…

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]]><![CDATA[An inside look at a novel in progress: How I'm writing Scribbles From Earth]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/an-inside-look-at-a-novel-in-progress-1e5https://www.jcbruce.com/p/an-inside-look-at-a-novel-in-progress-1e5Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:44:00 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[The Strange Files Series]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/the-strange-files-serieshttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/the-strange-files-seriesFri, 05 Jan 2024 16:19:09 GMT

The Strange Files Series

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]]><![CDATA[Critics Love Strange Timing]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/crtics-love-strange-timinghttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/crtics-love-strange-timingSat, 02 Dec 2023 15:49:16 GMT

Reviewed by Shrabastee Chakraborty

for Readers’ Favorite

Alexander Strange specializes in the bizarre. As a reporter, his life revolves around quirky, inexplicable stories to write about in his Strange Files series. Yet, this Christmas couldn't be more strange. At first, his detective friend Lester enlists his help to retrieve the baby Jesus missing from …

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]]><![CDATA[Now available!]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/now-availablehttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/now-availableThu, 30 Nov 2023 01:13:36 GMT

Alexander Strange has an unusual guardian angle -- she's the one who needs protection.

Not enough that he's typing his fingers to the bone covering resurrected triceratops terrorizing Miami or that he's on a quest to find a headless baby Jesus snatched from a Naples megachurch and golf resort.

Now his shipboard mannequin, Mona, is channeling a woman from …

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]]><![CDATA[Books]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/the-strange-files-series-in-sequencehttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/the-strange-files-series-in-sequenceSat, 30 Sep 2023 14:54:00 GMT Read more

]]><![CDATA[The Reviews Are In and The Strange Files is a Hit]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/the-reviews-are-in-and-the-strange-files-is-a-hithttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/the-reviews-are-in-and-the-strange-files-is-a-hitTue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:55 GMT

Bruce’s prose is consistently crisp and controlled, and the tension between the various characters is genuinely entertaining throughout. A charming and suspenseful page-turner punctuated by dashes of the surreal.

Kirkus Reviews

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]]><![CDATA[J.C. Bruce has been seeing Strange things happen and he's delighted]]>https://www.jcbruce.com/p/j-c-bruce-has-been-seeing-strange-things-happen-and-hes-delightedhttps://www.jcbruce.com/p/j-c-bruce-has-been-seeing-strange-things-happen-and-hes-delightedMon, 26 Jun 2023 17:14:21 GMTHarriet Howard Heithaus

Naples Daily News

Staying home has given Southwest Florida a new appreciation for all things local. Two local authors have found that love being extended to them with books that have been published as the coronavirus developed. In fact, one of them is in print because the coronavirus developed. Meet authors Jeff Bruce and Ronnie An…

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