W. Bruce Cameron was born in Petoskey Michigan in an event which his mother keeps reminding him was very painful. He has spent most of his life living in northern Michigan, though he went to high school at Shawnee Mission East outside of Kansas City, Kansas. His high school classmates voted him "Least Likely to Reproduce."

Most recently he has lived in Evergreen, CO, though he is currently in Los Angeles.

There's really only one thing a person can say about Bruce: he was always supposed to be a writer. At the age of ten, he actually started—and this is no lie (the lies will come in a minute)—he actually started his first novel. Entitled "Bad Luck W. Bruce," it was about a ten year old boy growing up in "a small town in Chicago." During the course of the novel, the protagonist sold his sister to extraterrestrial and rode his bicycle over "one of the many waterfalls in the Chicago area."

It was Cameron's best work.

Since then, W. Bruce has launched into books (8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter And other tips from a beleaguered father (not that any of them work) television (8 Simple Rules) and even screenplays (a film adaptation of 8 Simple Rules…can this guy write anything else?). Despite this, and the urgent pleadings of his immediate family, he writes—his newest book, an analysis of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, is due in the fall of 2003. (Okay, first lie. Click here to get the real scoop on the next book.)

Before he finally was given his fifteen minutes of fame, Cameron spent years trying to sell novels, short stories, poetry… with no success. He hit upon the idea of writing humorous essays because he had tried everything else except maybe recipes.

The Cameron Column went electronic in the Fall of 1995. Four of the original six subscribers were relatives of W. Bruce who felt pretty much obligated to accept the thing, even if they had no idea what it was all about. It's probably fair to say that W. Bruce had no idea what it was all about, either. He just knew that the standard rejection notice from book publishers, "Your novel is amusing but you are too ugly to put on a book jacket," led him to believe that perhaps an Internet-based newsletter would be successful.

Today, the Column is read in 52 countries (if you count Texas as a country—and they do) and appears on Internet humor lists on a regular basis. It is read on at least one radio morning show and has been reprinted in company newsletters and industry publications. It is wildly profitable (there's another lie) and has made the name W. Bruce Cameron at least as recognizable as "Euglenozoa."

Cameron also writes a syndicated humor column for Creators and is carried in newspapers world wide. If you don't have Cameron in your newspaper, you're missing out weekly—the essays in the newspaper are different than those sent out in electronic format. Write/call/firebomb your local paper today and demand they carry the Cameron Column!