We're hoping we can reach our goal of $5000 very soon. Here's what's happened to Bruce and why we are looking for your help.

Bruce recently had three serious leg surgeries. His recovery has drained his savings and made it hard to get back to work in the precarious world of Vancouver’s courier services. When the campaign began, he was is facing eviction and the loss of the car that makes it possible for him to work at all. And he's not quite out of the woods yet.

As he struggles with his financial and health difficulties Bruce is also close to realizing the long term creative journey that led him into the courier business. He needs to buy time to heal and to write. $5,000 will clear his most pressing financial obligations.

Bruce is a photographer and writer. He made his living in public relations, first in the world of language education, then in Vancouver’s exploding tech industries, promoting a series of start-ups. Disillusioned with the corrupt and fraudulent realities of one industry, and the boosterism, predation and self-aggrandizement of the other, he became fascinated by the free-wheeling couriers who congregated at his local coffee shop. Bruce began to photo-document and write about their world and came to the conclusion that he had to become an insider, not an observer. As Covid hit and the city shut down around them, he was delivering food for a living. Courier Zone. No Parking, a novel that fuses his past and current lives, began to take shape as a crime story that interconnects experiences from his past and present.

I am making a personal commitment to help him develop, edit and market the book. As for Bruce’s financial needs I will need your help. Times are tight for everyone but if you can help Bruce it will be most appreciated. If you would like to receive a short weekly serialization of the work-in- progress let us know.

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