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Non-Fiction

Farewell, Bend: A Bendite’s Eulogy for Bend, Oregon

Farewell, Bend: A Bendite’s Eulogy for Bend, Oregon is part travelogue, part hometown reckoning—a three-day journal through the streets and buried histories of a city caught between memory and metamorphosis.

Returning to Bend in May 2025, the author—born at St. Charles and raised in the shadow of the Cascades—sets out to rediscover the town he once called home. What he finds is a place both familiar and unrecognizable, shaped by decades of development, displacement, and reinvention. With a pint in one hand and a pen in the other, he guides us through overlooked landmarks and local lore, weaving personal anecdotes with archival gems from Bend’s other well-known chroniclers, including Raymond R. Hatton and Jonathan Bach.

By turns funny, furious, and deeply felt, Farewell, Bend is a love letter, a lament, and a last call for a city on the edge of forgetting itself.

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Rando: The Story of an Unfamous Semi-Cultured Redneck

W.L. “Hoss” Campbell spins a tale of growing up around other blue-collar folk in Bend, Oregon in the 1980s and 1990s during the last days of the timber boom; a childhood shaped by a hellish daycare center, relentless bullying, ADHD, and battlefields disguised as playgrounds.

A move to Redmond finally brings a sense of purpose and a glimpse of real happiness…for a moment. Then adulthood arrives fast and unforgiving. From the comfy high school bubble the road only gets rougher as Hoss gets citified in Ashland, Oregon; London, England; Portland, Oregon; and eventually the Central Valley of California. Hoss stumbles, scrapes, and occasionally sprints through life the only way he knows how: head down, hopes up, and bootlaces tied together.

Funny, tragic, and altogether normal, Rando: The Story of an Unfamous Semi‑Cultured Redneck follows one simple dude from central Oregon as he navigates the minefield of growing up, growing older, and trying—against the world and against himself—to live the most honest life he can.

Revised and expanded February 2026! Also available in hardcover!

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Security Officer Handbook: A Guide for the Entry-Level Security Officer

Security Officer Handbook: A Guide for the Entry-Level Security Officer is a slim volume jam-packed with need-to-know information for the person just beginning as a security officer. It’s perfect for those starting at smaller agencies which have limited training personnel and budgets, but also a good resource for those at large agencies with trainers restrained by policy. From how to wear a uniform to sweeping for bombs, the information presented within will allow the new security officer to exhibit competence and professionalism from day one at the job site.

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Fiction

Codagenesis

The world they knew is dead.

Security specialist Grayson Brooks is hired to work in a secure bunker after the release of a deadly virus. Practically owned by the corporation which employs him, he is unjustly imprisoned when a dangerous man eludes him in the bunker. His sentence was harsh but survivable.

The virus would not be tamed.

As it ravages the world beyond the bunker, Grayson and the man who nearly escaped the bunker—his onetime friend Keona Sage—languish in their prison, unaware of the occurrences beyond their cell. However, all who sleep must wake.

Now there’s a new mission.

Faced with dangers both new and as old as time, Grayson and Keona must engage their old skills to survive. Time doesn’t stop moving forward even when humanity is on the brink of full extinction. Neither will they.

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Read My Shorts

A woman who doesn’t know she’s special.

A man in hiding.

An overworked chef who just wants a damn omelet.

These are a few of the characters you’ll meet in Read My Shorts, the first published collection of short stories by Wayne Campbell. Oscillating between comedy, drama, and suspense, the stories will touch on places you’ve been and some you may have only wondered about.

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