Bruce Cleveland Meek
Bruce Meek
A Michigan mortgage founder who spent twenty-seven years building a family business — and then finally wrote the Cold War novel he had been carrying since boyhood.
A Michigan life, told in three chapters
Bruce Cleveland Meek grew up in a household where values were not a slogan. His father — Paul Burton Meek, teacher, minister, builder — taught a code of morality, ethics and discipline, and lived it. That inheritance runs through everything Bruce has built since.
With his wife Kimberly, he founded a mortgage company and spent twenty-seven years helping families in Michigan buy homes. Along the way he raised three sons, read every Alistair MacLean and Louis L'Amour he could find, and quietly carried the idea of a novel.
Decades later, he sat down and wrote it.
Home water — Michigan
Values first,
then everything else
Bruce writes about ordinary Americans placed in extraordinary circumstances, because he was raised by one. Service runs in the family: from the Revolution through Korea, and most recently his youngest son Kameron, a United States Marine.
“They never had much, but the love, lessons, and experiences they gave us — were priceless.”
Est. 1999
Genisys Mortgage
A family business built on relationships.
Bruce and Kimberly Meek founded Genisys twenty-seven years ago on a simple premise: a mortgage is not a transaction, it is a family's plan for the next decade of their life. Treat it that way and the referrals take care of themselves.
The business is still theirs, still run the same way, and it remains an essential part of Bruce's story — not a footnote to it.
- Founded
- 1999
- Years
- 27
- Founders
- Bruce & Kimberly
A new chapter
He had wanted to write a book since he was a young man. Twenty-seven years of business came first. Then the research began — spy planes, the FBI, the KGB, a stretch of Nevada desert that officially did not exist — and did not stop until there was a novel.
Archangel
Once Upon a Time in Dreamland
Lake Tahoe, 1960.
As the world gathers at Squaw Valley for the Winter Olympics, FBI Special Agent Ted Britton is assigned to keep watch over a celebration of sport, diplomacy, and uneasy Cold War peace. But when an East German coach is seen meeting with a suspicious American military insider, Britton uncovers a trail leading far beyond the Olympic village.
Now the KGB wants its secrets.
History,
told honestly
Bruce's fiction is built on research: declassified programs, period tradecraft, the real geography of the Nevada Test and Training Range, and the political weather of 1960. The people are invented. The world they move through is not.
Read the journal →
More stories are being written.
Notes from the desk
- June 18, 2026 The letter that changed the book A line in my father's Army correspondence — 'We are being sent to Nevada next week' — sent me down a road I never expected to walk. Research →
- May 2, 2026 Why 1960 is the perfect year for a spy novel An Olympic village in the Sierra, a U-2 shot down over Sverdlovsk, and an aircraft so secret it did not officially exist. Cold War →
- March 14, 2026 Twenty-seven years, and then a first novel How a family mortgage business taught me more about narrative structure than any writing course could have. The Writing Life →