S. Bradley Stoner

Long Bio

S. Bradley Stoner, the author of wilderness adventure and outdoor humor novels since 1980, recently saw his first children’s book published. He retired from a 35 year career in environmental consulting a couple of years ago to pursue his passion for writing on a full time basis.

His love of the wilderness coupled with the disillusion of a limited employment market in the early 1970s inspired his first book, Prey for Survival, originally published by Wilderness Adventure Books in 1980. A sequel, The Blackwitch Legacy followed soon after, although it languished for years after his career took off before he published it as an e-book. These fast paced books, set in the stark beauty of the Canadian Rockies, spin tales of the joys, dangers, personal torment, and ultimate redemption of living in the wilderness.

Semi-retirement and retrospection led to a fictionalized recounting of the journey from childhood to adulthood through the eyes of an inveterate fisherman in Fishing and Other Misadventures. And the eye-popping experiences of fatherhood has spawned a series of ideas for children’s books, with the first of the series, Beau’s Dragon, originally released in February 2014 by Sage Words Publishing and  re-released by Blythe Bridge Publishing in 2016.

Stoner received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado in Environmental Biology in 1971 and plenty of advanced education in the school of life. He has eleven books to his credit, four fiction, two children's, one poetry and four non-fiction books (under his given name, Steve McCarter), three on space travel with co-author James Essig).

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When not busy at the computer writing, researching, or on social media, Steve loves to spend his time with family, reading, traveling, working in his shop, and fishing... never forget fishing! He lives in San Antonio, Texas with his soulmate and wife of 24 years.