February 2012

2012 has been starting off with a bang!  I finally jumped into the digital realm with WHINE FEST after putting it off (for really no good reason).  As sales reports came in covering my 2011 sales, it is obvious that the digital era of books is here.  LOST WAGES sales were much higher in the digital realm, reaching a worldwide audience.  Within a short time, I believe that my extended reach with WHINE FEST will include Amazon's Kindle store as well as Apple's iBooks store.  Perhaps my next novel will be released in digital format first.

 click here for the SMASHWORDS PAGE for WHINE FEST



 Also - after a year plus on the waiting list, I've finally gotten some promotion through our local newspaper's efforts to give plugs to Vegas authors.

Read the blurb here!

   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!