Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h
After teaching English abroad for a decade, Jeffrey and his wife have settled in Northern California. He still teaches and devotes as much time as possible to writing. This is his first in a number of planned novels. He is now working on his next, which is tentatively entitled "Soul Hostage".
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I have always been most engaged by the horror genre. As an English major in college, I won over a few skeptical professors with essays on the literary merits of works by authors such as Stephen King and Peter Straub.
The drive to write has always been within me. However, I have been very successful at finding excuses not to carry through on the impulse. With the completion of Bloom's Desk, I have energized that drive and feel compelled to continue with another novel, which I have begun. It is, of course, a horror novel.