Bruce Sloane

Hello! I'm Bruce Sloane. During my life I’ve been a geologist, park ranger, newspaper editor, humor columnist, technical writer, and author. My earlier works which you see on this page are non-fiction travel and natural history books and now out of print but available from third-party vendors.

Books in print, both paperback and Kindle editions, are "Tales of Shirt Tail Hollow" and "An Octogenarian's Cochlear Implant Journey: I Can Hear Your Lovely Voice."

I started writing "Tales of Shirt Tail Hollow" for the amusement of friends and family, telling fictional exploits of some young and not-so-young folks living in the hollows of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

For years these stories existed as disparate short tales, some little more than a paragraph or two, as I pursued other followings. But Shirt Tail Hollow was never very far from my consciousness or typewriter (at first) and computer keyboard (later). Finally, thanks to the encouragement of some of those first readers I decided to rewrite these tales and make them available to a wider audience. So now you, gentle reader, can follow Hope and Earl and a plethora of dogs, cats, pigs, skunks, and more, in their adventures in Shirt Tail Hollow.

"An Octogenarian's Cochlear Implant Journey" was originally published as a blog on the website of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance and tells how after years of losing my hearing, I finally got s cochlear implant at age 81. ("Hence the "Octogenarian" in the title.) I could hear again! The expanded book tells of the trials and tribulations my wife, Joy, and I went through along the way, and the fantastic results and changes it made in both our lives. It's both a highly personal story and a tale of modern medical achievement.

If you like what you read, please take a few moments and write a review and tell others what you liked. If you don’t like these tales, please leave a review and tell everyone what you didn’t like–and what you liked, too!

Happy reading!

Bruce