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Husband, father, poet, writer, musician. Author of the Ben Kincaid and Daniel Pike legal thriller and the Red Sneaker books on writing.
Here's my November Superman Minute: Superman inventor Jerry Siegel created "K-Metal," a chunk of the home planet that was deadly to the hero...
All this and more in my forthcoming nonfiction book, The Superman Wars: A Battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. www.amazon.com/Superman-War...
Well, it's November, so Ralph is once again photographing squirrels, the subject that won him the Washington Post award. Here's his first official squirrel portrait of 2025.
06.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One more Halloween post! Ralph has always loved animals, but sometimes I'm surprised by how much they love him! Here he is innocently setting out Alice's exquisite carved pumpkins for Halloween...when a bird lands on his head. I think my reaction would've been much more dramatic!
04.11.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An annual Halloween tradition—showing off Alice's carved pumpkins. She did all the work freehand. I particularly like the very literary Headless Horseman art. I'm also posting a pic of Ralph handling treat of treat duties so you could see how great the pumpkins looked outside.
03.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Since she's appropriately pumpkin orange, we're letting Winifred wish you a spooooooky Halloween! (Photo by Ralph Bernhardt)
31.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don't know how I missed this, but apparently yesterday was National Cat Day. Bustopher was very disturbed that he wasn't featured in my social media posts. See the look he gave me, with those big sad eyes? So I'm compensating today. (Photo by Ralph Bernhardt.)
30.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know Superman helped build the Hubble Space Telescope? Pete Simmons was having trouble getting Congress to approve it. DC agreed to include the telescope in a story. Pete distributed copies of the comic to every senator. And in 1977, they approved the telescope. Superman saved the day!
29.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 New Podcast! "SciFi Doubles with Kuwal & Miller" on @Spreaker #amazon #double #fiction #kuwal #miller #novel #novelist #prime #saga #science #tiktok #writer #writing
29.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I'm mourning my friend and fellow writer Jon Meyers, who died unexpectedly yesterday. He co-wrote the nonfiction book Writer Better Together and was very proud of having finished his first novels. We will miss his enthusiasm and knowledge, but mostly we will remember him as a warm, generous friend.
28.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday we celebrated my mother's 97th birthday. I'm pleased to say she's still walking and just as smart as ever. She requested no gifts so we all brought homemade cards. The group photo has, from left to right, Alice and several of my nieces and nephews, Michael, Elizabeth, Corey and Lane.
27.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alice and I have been in Orlando the past few days. We had great time. I enjoyed seeing DisneyWorld decorated for Halloween. And meeting characters (you can tell Alice is my daughter because she's wearing a Superman t-shirt). But the highlight was hanging with my Main Duck.
25.10.2025 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lara is in Connecticut visiting Madeline and Beth. Sounds like they're having a great time, going to pilates and Mystic pizza and shopping and apple picking and getting attacked by insects. Yes, you read that right. Lara was minding her own business when the mantis attacked her. Can you spot it?
17.10.2025 22:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 New Podcast! "Christmas in October with Shanna Hatfield" on @Spreaker #anthropic #author #christmas #conference #cruise #nonfiction #novelist #novels #scams #superman #thriller #writer #writing
16.10.2025 17:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Superman Wars PR has officially begun thanks to Kara Kavensky and her Record Scratch podcast. We talked about Jerry Siegel, the inventor of Superman, his struggles, and why I can relate profoundly to his life.You can get this anywhere, but you can also listen here: www.karakavensky.com/podcasts/
16.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My always industrious son Ralph was sorting through some storage boxes and found a treasure trove of old photos. This one is from 1991, when I was trekking through the Annapurna range of the Himalayas (something Harry also would do about 27 years later). I was never more tired in my life.
15.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to my dear friend Barry Friedman on the publication of the third book in his "four-book trilogy" with the usual unpublishable title. This collection of affectionate and hilarious anecdotes about his late father is, in my opinion, the best volume yet. www.amazon.com/Jack-Sh-Im-F...
14.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday, Lara and I attended the Grand Opening of a new indie bookstore in Moore, OK—The Last Page. Charming little book nook. If you're going to the Warren Theater, stop there first. Support indie bookstores!
12.10.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Consider this my Superman Minute, leading to the release of my book The Superman Wars on April 28.Jerry Siegel had no idea what he started when he named Lois Lane and Lex Luthor. After that, almost every significant character in Superman's life had the same initials.
www.amazon.com/Superman-War...
Lara and I saw Japanese Breakfast last night at the Tower Theater and had a great time. This was my first time at the Tower since it became a concert venue and my second time to enjoy a concert from a musician who has also penned a NYT-bestseller. Care to guess who the other NYT musician was?
09.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bustopher had to get his annual shots on Monday, so yesterday we was feeling pretty punk and spent most of the day in my lap. Fortunately, my laptop is quiet and i still managed to write two chapters. Don't you wish we all had someone we could flop across when we're not feeling well?
08.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 New Podcast! "LIVE from WriterCon 2025: The Joy of Writing" on @Spreaker #author #conference #fiction #memoir #nonfiction #novelist #novels #writer #writercon #writers
08.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What would I post if I didn't have Ralph sending me great stuff? He spent a long weekend with us and we had a great time, yakking and eating Qdoba bowls and watching obscure art films (like The Toxic Avenger). Here he's mixed together two of his favorites—Lovecraft and ALF.
07.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I got a surprise as I unloaded the groceries. I think this look means, "There's no cat food in this bag..."
02.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I always post Alice's Easter egg designs and jack o'lantern carvings, because they are fabulous. She just attended a fall cookie decorating class and, what can I say? Fabulous. My talented girl.
01.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to my friend Jenny LaBranche on the release of her new "romantasy" novel, Innisfallen Accursed. Jenny has been working hard on this book for years, workshopping it at WriterCon retreats, and I'm glad to see it's finally in print in a big way. Way to go! www.amazon.com/Innisfallen-...
30.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We had a filled but fun weekend. Saturday we went to OAFCon, the pop culture convention co-founded more than fifty years ago by my pal John Wooley. Sunday we hit the Greek Festival at St. George's in OKC. Notice how Lara skillfully subdivides the goodies so all can taste everything!
29.09.2025 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jimmy Olsen got his own comic became he was the breakout fave from the '50s George Reeves series. Jerry Siegel (Superman's originator and writer) hated the series. Can you guess why? Or better yet, find out by ordering my forthcoming book, The Superman Wars. www.amazon.com/Superman-War...
26.09.2025 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In fairness, since I featured a cat yesterday, today we turn to dogs. This is a Ralph portrait of his dear doggie Barlie (the one who brought him a bunny rabbit in the middle of the night a couple of weeks ago).
24.09.2025 15:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I can't decide on a caption...
"Can't you even leave me alone when I'm eating?" or
"No, I don't forgive you for locking me out while you taught that boring online seminar."
What's your caption?
Did you know—Jerry Siegel, the originator of Superman, may have also played a role in the creation of Batman? In More Fun Comics #28: The figure looks like and is called Bat-Man. Just one of many fascinating things you will learn in my forthcoming release, The Superman Wars...
21.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
