by jeffrey | Apr 9, 2025 | Real Life
You may have heard that my Alma Mater, the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University, will come to an end this August. I and my fellow students cannot express our heartbreak at learning that forces within the conservative board and administration had decided to fire...
by jeffrey | Mar 8, 2025 | Real Life
My latest novel is called BLUE GOSPEL. It could be available as early as this summer. But this week I got cover art finalized, so I am happy to show off the new book. BLUE GOSPEL is a 20th century update of the biblical gospel story from the perspective of the minor...
by jeffrey | Feb 28, 2025 | Non-fiction, Real Life
Hello friends! My posts to this blog are so infrequent, you could be forgiven for forgetting that you signed up! But now is NOT the time to give up and unsubscribe. I am very excited to announce a book project that has been in the works for over a year. The idea for...
by jeffrey | Dec 6, 2024 | Fiction, Uncategorized
On the day Jesus returned to earth, I was at my desk laboring to finish a novel that I hoped would get me hooked up with a new agent, who could help me find me a publisher, and jumpstart my writing career which was all but dead after the lackluster showing of my debut...
by jeffrey | Oct 31, 2024 | Fiction
Dantelle in Spring, 2015 By Jeffrey Allen Mays Dantelle walks, almost hovers, beside a whitecapped river that chuckles and flashes in the morning light. She blesses the cantos of the doves and whippoorwills, the regular bursts of knocking from a distant woodpecker,...
by jeffrey | Oct 20, 2024 | Fiction
The Mystic spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “A Sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell upon soil depleted due to overharvesting, and the seed never germinated because it could get no nutrients. Some seed fell where the soil was sown with...
by jeffrey | Oct 1, 2024 | Non-fiction, Real Life
My mother passed away a week ago. I normally avoid the phrase ‘passed away’ because I don’t see anything wrong with saying ‘she died,’ but I know that some people are more sensitive than I am. Since that morning last Monday, I have had...
by jeffrey | Sep 18, 2024 | Non-fiction
I am pleased to announce that, after some unfortunate delays, my review of Scott Cairns’ 2023 book Lacunae has been published by Radix Magazine. I love this book and I’ve read it over and over. Scott has been writing and poetry since the early 80’s....
by jeffrey | Aug 21, 2024 | Non-fiction, Uncategorized
This document is now a PDF in my Writings menu. You may access at this link: The 4th Commandment is widely misunderstood
by jeffrey | Jun 19, 2024 | Non-fiction
Hello friends, I have had many people tell me that they are not readers, but if I created an audiobook or audio short story, they would love to listen to it in the car on the way to work. Well your wish has been fulfilled. My first audio recording of the story...
