Harold W. Bernard

H. W. “Buzz” Bernard is a bestselling, award-winning novelist. His debut novel, EYEWALL, published in 2011, became a number-one bestseller in Amazon’s Kindle Store. Three of his next four novels won Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition eBook awards in the suspense/thriller category. In 2020, with the publication of WHEN HEROES FLEW, Buzz switched from writing suspense/thriller novels to WWII historical fiction and began a new series. The first three novels in the series were awarded Gold Medals by the Military Writers Society of America. Buzz himself was honored with the MWSA’s highest accolade in 2023, the Founder’s Award. WHEN HEROES FLEW: THE ROOF OF THE WORLD, the third book in the series, in addition to garnering an MWSA Gold Medal, won the 2023 Nancy Pearl Book Award for genre fiction. The award is sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Buzz is currently working on his fifth WWII historical fiction book. Before becoming a novelist, Buzz worked at The Weather Channel as a senior meteorologist for thirteen years. Prior to that, he served as a weather officer in the U.S. Air Force for over three decades. He attained the rank of colonel and received, among other awards, the Legion of Merit. Buzz is a past president of the Southeastern Writers Association as well as a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, the Willamette Writers, the Military Writers Society of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Atlanta Writers Club. Although a native Oregonian, Buzz lived for 35 years in Atlanta, and now resides in Kennewick, Washington, with his wife Barbara.