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January 2012

It's hard to believe... that we're into another new year.  It seems like yesterday I was just releasing WHINE FEST and making my local appearance as well as the one at the Tucson book Festival.  While there have been struggles this year in continuing my writing amid a busy schedule, there have been triumphs as well.  Most notably I was shocked at the international sales of my first book LOST WAGES in digital format.  I have to say that Apple's ibooks store is a blessing.  Sales have been logged in Canada as well as Great Britain and Germany.  I think it goes to show that the Las Vegas theme truly struck a worldwide pulse.  Feedback has been good!  The time constraints made it tough for me to get WHINE FEST on ibooks and Amazon's Kindle, but perhaps it is high time to make room for my international following.

   YESTERDAY'S NEWS:

WHINE FEST IS RELEASED!

November 2, 2010.  Go get it before or after voting!  Available through this site, or you can find it on almost every online bookseller.

BOOK RELEASE SIGNING at SAXBY'S COFFEE in Henderson, Thursday November 4 from 6 pm to 8 pm.  Please visit my EVENTS page for details! 

BOOK SIGNING in Temecula at the Mount Palomar Winery on Sunday, November 14 from 2 pm to 5 pm.  This winery was featured in a chapter of my book and I am grateful for the invite to showcase it during their wine club party.

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My guest spot on "Las Vegas is Talking" on Thursday, October 1, 2009 was great fun.  My thanks to the host John Donovan for inviting me.  If you happened to miss my appearance, I've got a link to the interview here.  Hopefully I will have more appearances or guest spots elsewhere as Christmas approaches.  I will update as information becomes available.

Lost WagesA Las Vegas Christmas Tale 

Jeff Griggs is a family man who wants nothing more than to win the Oleander Hills Homeowner's Association Holiday Decorating contest and provide an amazing Christmas for his wife Joan and his two boys Matt and Marcus. Getting suspended from his job at the Las Vegas airport causes a chain of events which threaten his financial ability to meet that obligation. Along the way, members of the Griggs family meet strangers who remind them to remain faithful with a mysterious prediction that 'Big things will happen.' It's a comforting tale that reminds all of us that Christmas miracles can happen - even in Las Vegas.

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ABOUT ME 

 I was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. Aside from four years earning a degree in rocket science and watching University of Arizona Wildcat basketball, I have lived my whole life in Southern Nevada. A lifetime of experience in the hospitality industry left me beaten down and lacking both pride and a will to go on, at least until finding the ability to actually write and produce works of literature that the world would hopefully someday read. While I would be content to have my important contributions to humanity’s seemingly endless library considered worthy of continual interest to eager readers or even apathetic students for generations, I would far prefer immediate success and the spoils that go with it. As always in the book world, a movie deal would be even better.

  I started writing music around the age of twelve after a few years of picking out songs by ear on the family piano rather than practicing my Hanon drills.   My first inspirations were the sophisticated pop works of the Beatles and Chicago as well as the humor of Woody Allen, Ogden Nash, Tom Lehrer and Lewis Grizzard.   Evidence of this is present in an eloquent approach that is seasoned with a dry humor throughout my musical compositions and other writings.

  I've been raising a family for the last decade with my adorable wife Debbie who always reminds me that I'm a creative person and tells me I should be writing for television or movies.  Maybe I will be lucky enough to have that work out someday once the youngest is grown.  But for now, I have my first novel, Lost Wages: A Las Vegas Christmas Tale to promote and test the waters in the literary world and my second novel WHINE FEST is on the way.   Thanks for checking out my page!