by jeffrey | Feb 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
I am excited to have my very own booth at the very first event of this sort I have ever done. The 5th annual “Take 190 West” is an arts festival in Killeen Texas with sculptors, artists, and authors, including young authors. It will be held at the Killeen...
by jeffrey | Feb 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
I am very pleased to announce that my debut novel The Former Hero has won the 2015 Book Award for Suspense/Thriller from the Texas Association of Authors! TAA is a major sponsor of the first ever DEAR Texas Book Event, a state-wide program to promote the enjoyment and...
by jeffrey | Jan 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
I have a pretty good run going here with the positive book reviews! The latest one is from San Francisco Book Review who gave it 4.5 stars. Thanks to Maggie Marshall for the good words. Here are some highlights: “…many fantastic qualities…weaves in...
by jeffrey | Dec 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Goodreads recently asked me to write a response to this question: How do you deal with Writer’s Block? Here’s what I said. We need to ask, What is ‘writer’s block?’ And we should be clear, it is not a clinical condition the way it sounds....
by jeffrey | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Hey everyone! Congratulate me today for being a winner in The Author Show contest, “50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading.” The prize for winning is this cool red medallion graphic that you see here. Before you start fawning over me, clamoring for my...
by jeffrey | Nov 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
I read the NY Times runaway bestseller Gone Girl last month. There were plenty of other things I could have read. It’s not like I’ve read everything of note, every Murakami book that has been recommended, every Franzen, Eugenides, Eggers, Gaiman, Chabon....