What started out as a self publishing business has evolved into a conventional publishing partnership with Strang Communications, a Christian publisher. I started out writing drama and found success with a collection of children’s dramas for Contemporary Drama/Meriwether Publishing in 1995. Shortly after that, I experienced a crisis in my life and suffered through two years of Christian counseling for severe depression. My pastor and best friend, Mark Sutton asked me to help him co-author a book on depression. In 2001, B&H Publishing (Broadman & Holman) published “Conquering Depression” which has enjoyed success since that time. God has used this book to change the lives of countless people for the better.

In 2000, I started working on the Jonathan Steel Chronicles, a book series of supernatural fiction based on spiritual warfare. I self published “The 13th Demon” in 2006 followed by “The 12th Demon” with BookPros in 2008.

Since that time, I have found the best agent in the world and I have signed a contract to continue the Jonathan Steel Chronicles under the Realms book imprint.

613media exists to help promote these published works and in the future will feature the publication of my full length dramas. These scripts have been requested over and over in the years since their initial performance in the mid-1990‘s. Speaking at drama conferences around the country, I have been fortunate to have requests for these scripts and I am working hard to make them available through this site.

Thank you for showing an interest in 613media. I invite you to explore the site and I encourage you to be patient as my new partner in publishing and I develop the first five books of the Jonathan Steel Chronicles.

About Bruce Hennigan

I am at heart a country boy. I grew up in Blanchard, Louisiana on 62 acres of woods and pasture. My childhood was spent in using my imagination to change the world around me into something playful and fun. I guess this led me to the love of storytelling. In high school, I asked God what He wanted me to do with my life and I got the last answer I wanted to hear. I became a doctor. It was a true calling as real as a calling into the ministry and God affirmed that call in the miracles that occurred to get me into college and medical school and to pay my way.

I met Sherry Kidd at Brookwood Baptist Church shortly after I started medical school. We were married in 1980 just as I started my residency in radiology. Throughout my high school, college, and medical school years I wrote without ceasing. I wrote short stories, poems, essays, articles for the school and church
newspapers. In spite of a multitude of rejection letters, I never gave up.

In 1989, I was asked to help write a play and then asked to direct it. I had done neither of these but found a form or writing and creativity that fit me like a glove. In 1992, my pastor, Mark Sutton, asked me to become the drama minister for Brookwood Baptist Church on the condition that everything we performed was original material written by no one else but Bruce Hennigan.

In 2007, I formed 613media as a company to advance my own fiction writing. This grew out of frustration with the conventional process of Christian fiction publishing and the long delays in getting books onto the shelves. My goal was to develop a “track record” by self publishing my books and finding a reliable agent. As of 2009, I am represented by Hidden Value Group of California and we recently signed a contract with Strang Communications, a mainstream Christian publisher to develop the book series, the Jonathan Steel Chronicles. 

Now, I am working with our Children’s Ministry at Brookwood to direct, produce, and adapt scripts for our Kidstuf program. I am now a Volunteer Apologist for Reasons to Believe, a Certified Apologetic Instructor for the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, a “graduate” of the Dynamic Communications Workshop, and a recipient of the Biola University Certificate of Apologetics.