Bruce Hesselbach Publishes First Novel

November 14, 2013 in Notes, Publications

In August 2013, my first novel, Perpetual Motion, was published by

Cogwheel Press. It is a steampunk novel set in Switzerland and Germany

from 1876 to 1889, a love story between a time traveler’s daughter and a

doomed inventor threatening to help Germany win the Great War.

This has been an active literary year for me. I was a storyteller at a local

storytelling night, read at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, and was a presenter

at the Waltham MA steampunk festival, as well as two other venues.

I’ve been living in Newfane Vermont since 1989; wrote a book about

hiking in 2005; and have now climbed 496 different mountains.

My wife Carol (Vassar 1972) and I have two adult children and two

grandkids to help keep us jolly.