Bruce Eberts grew up in Northern Ontario before heading south to Hamilton to attend McMaster University and study occupational therapy.
He successfully owned and operated a health care company which he has since sold. He now lives a life of semi-retirement where his family and friends encouraged him to put his story telling to paper.
Eberts says he has always had stories in his head that he wanted to put to paper. Once he had some retirement time on his hands, he says he finally had the time to write.
His first book, Drip Castle, is set in Northern Ontario. It is about a man who wants to take his mother to Mexico to cure her of MS. He decides to pay for this by stealing a twin engine Cessna full of gold bars from the local gold mine.
“The book was supposed to be a bucket list,” said Eberts. “Then I started getting all these emails and contacts about the characters in the book.”
He says he realized there was interest in the characters and in the book so he decided to write a sequel called Liquid Moon.
Eberts says he did a lot of research for both books which included calling police and flight schools to understand the different ways of transporting gold and other riches.
Eberts says he also tried to keep the book Canadian with Easter eggs to famous Canadian bands and musicians, as well as using lots of Canadian words.
More information about Drip Castle and Liquid Moon can be found here.
