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WHO THE HELL IS THIS FUCKIN’ GUY? |
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John Bruni was born on July 25, 1978 in Elmhurst, Illinois. He attended local schools from kindergarten all the way through college, where he spent time as a journalist for the Elmhurst College Leader, writing comic book reviews, an occasional feature article, and a series of regular columns as THE STRAIGHT with his Primitive Underbelly partner, Jesse “GonZo” Russell (whose story, “Bear’s Tale, Abridged” appears in TABARD INN). He was also the poetry editor of the campus literary/art magazine, MIDDLEWESTERN VOICE, for a whole two weeks, during which time he chose none of the poems that were published.
He likes to think he’s a professional writer, as he tends to get paid for his work from time to time. With ninety-nine publications to his name, his recent work has appeared, most prestigiously, in CTHULHU SEX MAGAZINE, DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES, DOWN IN THE DIRT (www.scars.tv), THE NOCTURNAL LYRIC, NUTHOUSE, NIGHT TO DAWN, VAMPIRES 2, TRAIL OF INDISCRETION, MAN'S STORY 2, and the paperback anthology, BALANCE. Future publications include a story to appear in RED SCREAM, AOIFE'S KISS and ALL HALLOWS. One of his poetry reviews has also been published in the Winter 2006 issue of BIBLIOPHILOS (vol. XII, no. 4), but his contributors copies got lost in the mail, and this issue has sold out. If anyone out there has a copy of this magazine, please get in contact with him at editor@talesofquestionabletaste.com. John Bruni is kind of creeped out by writing about himself in the third person, so he’s going to stop now. Besides, the screaming of kidnapped whores in his cellar is distracting him . . and he must do something about this right now. Buy his magazine, TABARD INN: TALES OF QUESTIONABLE TASTE. Buy more than one copy. He’s not very well-off in the finances department. At least buy some of his bumper stickers. They’re not very expensive, you know. Check out the rates for advertisement space in TI. They’re not bad. Think about it, but don’t take too long. Without your help, he won’t be able to last long in this pit of jackals. Please? |
He has worked several jobs, among them selling ad space for a local newspaper publisher. He was not very good at this (in fact, one might say he was fuckin’ dismal) and was quickly shown the door, but he managed to place a few stories with a couple of their publications (COLLEGE NEWS and CHICAGO COMMUTER). He was unjustly fired from the library featured in "Tales from the Library" and now works as a teleconference operator, where he is much happier.