Bud Bane is a product of rural southwestern Pennsylvania. He has an unnatural fear of the living and an unnerving intimacy with the unknown.
Growing up among the blue collar working class of the suburbs and boroughs around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bud learned first hand how people faced adversities. It was a time when the region was nearly losing its character through the collapse of the steel industry and manufacturing. That shift had wide reaching tentacles and affected everyone in the area.
Bud remembers a time as a teenager, when he bagged groceries at a local chain store, along side of a former steel worker as well as a former vice-president of a major financial institution. In other words, during this time nobody was safe from the horrors of the shifting economy.
Watching so many face so much, and find ways to reinvent themselves left an indelible impression on Bud, along with a healthy respect for the human spirit.
This is reflected in the tales Bud writes. Regardless the outcome of a tale, as in life we sometimes win and sometimes lose, the stories Bud writes are about the struggle of the character from beginning to end, stripping away the thin veils we all wear to spotlight the nobility of humanity when facing great odds.
First published in 1995, Bud Bane was named one of the best new writers for his introductory tale, Seriatim, of a serial killer who enjoyed taunting law enforcement.
In the years since Bud has honed his talent and skills as a storyteller. Between short stories in magazines, anthologies, and online, as well as shorts and novels ghost-written, Bud has had over a million words published under several pen names and in various genres. From horror to science fiction, fantasy and even romantic-suspense.
More recently Bud has grown excited over the expansion and enthusiasm for writers engaging in Indie Publishing and first began dipping his own toes into the water in 2012 with the publication of "It Came From The Rocks". A gritty monster yarn where no dog is safe.
While commitments and contracts have prevented Bud from being as prolific as he’d prefer as an Indie writer, his second Indie release of "Aware" marks a change in Bud’s life where he’ll be writing much less for others and paychecks, and most focusing on the stories he truly wants to develop and self-publish.
Following the June of 2019 release of “Aware”, a series of novels revolving around the fictional small town of Red Creek are scheduled for release as well, where Bud plans to take some deep dives into recurring characters and how they grow as people through the course of multiple strange and supernatural events.
“The idea for the Red Creek Damned series first came to me while I was writing Aware. I’d long wanted to write a series of thrilling horrors all set in a single location, but never made the time to develop it until something clicked as I was working on Aware.
It’s funny really, it was sort of a throwaway dialogue line in an early chapter where I needed a creek name and when I came up with Red Creek my mind just ran off on a tangent imagining this small town and all the people within it. Before I was halfway finished writing Aware I had this whole imagined world–and cast–of Red Creek just waiting to tell their stories. As I finished the writing, revisions, and editing of Aware I was also working evenings on developing stories for Red Creek.
I’ve never been the sort of writer who subscribes to– or waits for—inspiration. The truth is writing is work, like any other kind of work. You just do it. Sometimes you do it well and sometimes you do it half-assed and have to clean up after yourself later, but it all comes down to just sitting in the chair and putting words on paper. That said, when I began working out storylines for Red Creek it was an experience like I’ve never had before. They came faster than I could write them, as though the characters have been waiting a long time to tell the world what they’ve been through. That’s a special kind of experience for me as a writer and I hope to hold on for as long as I can to it.”