Duane Spurlock
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Duane Spurlock

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Duane Spurlock writes adventure and fantasy-oriented action tales. He has been identified as a writer in the New Pulp movement, since he has written new stories featuring characters from the Golden Age of the pulp fiction era--the 1930s and 1940s-- but Spurlock prefers to describe himself as a genre writer: He writes novels and stories about new characters set in various eras, including the Wild West, the present day, and the decade of the 1950s in which history has followed an alternate course from the one we know today. Spurlock has published stories both in print editions and as eBooks. He also has worked as an illustrator for certain books, particularly those written by Brian Showers. One of those, The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories, won the Children of the Night Award from the Dracula Society. Spurlock has worked extensively in publishing--as a reporter, photographer, and editorial cartoonist for newspapers; technical writer and editor for software-specific journals from The Cobb Group; and Director of Content for internet publisher Emazing.com. Currently he works with clinicians and statisticians focused on quality improvement in the healthcare field. He professes to enjoy the writings of Elmore Leonard, Charles McCarry, Bill Brooks, Loren Estleman, Alan Furst, Daniel Woodrell, James Sallis, Donald Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, Lester Dent, H. Bedford-Jones, A. Conan Doyle, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Maurice Leblanc, Jules Verne, and Alexandre Dumas. He maintains three blogs: The Spur & Lock Mercantile, which examines the western genre in various media; The Pulp Rack, focused on popular narrative fiction during the first half of the 20th Century, its precursors, and its influence on contemporary media; and InterroBang, presenting updates on the author's current works in progress. Spurlock says, "Genre fiction and popular media have narrative strengths that speak to readers in powerful ways, no matter what era the stories are set in, no matter what the tropes or expectations may be for a given genre or type of story." Spurlock comes from a long line of long-winded storytellers. He lives with his family in Kentucky, where they garden, doodle, whistle, and tell one another stories.
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