About the Author
W. Bruce Cameron worked for General Motors and got up early every morning and wrote novels. He started to write a column on the Internet for friends, which grew, and at its peak had 40,000 readers. The Rocky Mountain News hired him to be a columnist and the column was nationally syndicated. The column "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" was so popular he expanded the topic into a book published by Workman in 2001. The book was a New York Times bestseller and then Bruce developed it into the TV show. He lives in L.A.