Josh “Bearheart” Hawk is an Ohio based author with multiple works under his belt, including his debut novel The Journal, a short horror anthology titled Legend and Tales: Creepy and Fun Stories to Tell Around the Campfire, and his latest work GPS Signal Lost: Attempting to Re-Establish Connection.

 

Growing up in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Josh loved small town life but wanted to see the world. Joining the army in 2008 allowed him to do just that. After a deployment to Iraq in 2011, he moved back to Ohio with his wife and kids and started a career in information technology. A 2022 layoff, however, left him with a choice to make.

 

He’d always dreamed of doing something more, creating things that would bring a smile to people’s faces and leave an impact. In August 2022, he began work on what would become his debut novel, The Journal. That work would be released in March of 2023, and the rest of that year would be spent working on short horror stories that would wind up filling his second book, Legends and Tales.

 

Starting to find his groove as a writer, Josh would spin one of those short horror stories off into his third book, GPS Signal Lost.

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In addition to writing books, Josh now spends a majority of his time working on his Philosophy and Ethics in Games series on YouTube. This series can be found on his YouTube channel Lost in Games and involves diving into video games to dissect the stories and characters in those games using philosophy to tie the games into the real world as thought experiments. This has been his most successful endeavor to date with the channel growing to over 6,000 subscribers and having nearly 750,000 views in 2025!

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Finally, Josh is joined by his wife, Alisha “Bunny” Hawk, in a joint venture called A Candle & A Story where the pair team up to bring amazing scented candles, body butter, and books to buyers locally in their community.

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This website is the main hub for everything Josh "Bearheart" Hawk, with links to the store page for Josh, his blog (where he goes beyond gaming and discusses things from the real world in a way only he can), legends Josh has uncovered around his home state of Ohio and elsewhere, and much more! If you're a fan of Josh "Bearheart" Hawk, you've come to the right place!