Bernard J. Schaffer (born 1974) is a police detective, an author, and a former child actor who appeared on the Nickelodeon program Don't Just Sit There. He joined the police department in 1996 and passed the detective's test in 2005.
Schaffer cites Stephen King's On Writing as his favorite book, describing King as "my Musashi," and the Harry Potter novels as his favorite series. He self-published the short story collection Women and Other Monsters in May of 2011, the new Sherlock Holmes novel Whitechapel: the Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes on 16 June 2011, and the sci-fi western Guns of Seneca 6 on 24 October 2011.
His upcoming projects include the short fiction anthology Kindle All-Stars Presents: Resistance Front and another short-story collection titled "Codex Leicester."