I am an Author. Books
Cj started writing when he was thirteen and supposed to be learning geometry. Instead, he wrote a nuclear-disaster apocalypse novel about how he, alone among Springfield, VA’s teeming thousands, built a nuclear-hardened bunker to keep him–and the lovely Dena Christiansen–alive when the Soviets attacked. Dena’s poor boyfriend of the time was, sadly, a horrific casualty of the war. Cj was a casualty of not studying, and failed the final, landing in summer school. The novel sucked, too. He burned it.
But he tried again, writing this time about a professional tennis player (Cj played tennis–five or six times–when he was a teen) who romances a British princess (he knows nothing whatever about British royalty and has never even visited England). The novel was begun when Cj was sixteen and finally completed seven years later. It still exists; there are six extant copies, and no, you cannot have one. The manuscript cannot be edited into publishable form. It’s that bad.
And then for twenty years, Cj wrote nothing more than essays and the occasional short story. They won contests periodically, and Cj even had columns in two trade magazines and a newspaper, but nothing more was forthcoming on the fiction front, until he had a dream.
Cheesy, right? But he did, and in the dream he saw the ending of a novel, and was compelled to begin writing it. It took six months, and was a massively bloated effort of 160,000 words, but The Repairers is the first novel Cj wrote that deserves publication. He has since followed that one with ten more, including a prequel to Repairers called It Would Take A Miracle. Unable to settle on a genre, he has written everything from religious romance to choose-your-own-adventure (ghost-written) to cyberpunk to post-apocalyptic thriller.
The published tally sits at: three nonfiction books, including From Poop to Gold, the story of the marketing magic of the Harmon Brothers ad agency (think Squatty Potty); three short story compilations, including Twelve Upon a Time, is a collection of fifteen fairy tales for adults and children, and Xeno, short stories of obscure sorrows; and six short-story anthologies, best exemplified by his “Deep Within the Corners of My Mind”, published by Incandescent Phoenix in the anthology Wings of Renewal.
And then two novels in the Trinity Flynn series (think Nancy Drew crossed with Agent Carter and a quart bottle of Amelia Earhart): Trinity Flynn and the Five Points Gang and Trinity Flynn and the Kidnappers of the Black Hand. There’s a book of shorts, too, featuring the same characters–The Bones Stand Up. All are available at Drabatic Press.
I ghostwrite (four books and one on the way). I’m expensive. I’m also very good. Inquires can be made to chris@iamchrisjones.com.
Drabatic Press is a labor of love built around the idea that authors can do better work when they control not only the work (writing) and the publishing (as in self-pub) but the customer contacts as well (try that with Amazon). It’s a system that has produced tremendous results with both fiction and nonfiction titles, and it could work for you, too. Check it out at the link above.
What’s that? You want to hear more about my books? Okay, well, you asked.
Books
Murdered By Pirates is Good (MCHH Book I)
Try Not to be Killed By A Volcano (MCHH book II)
Sorry I Burnt Your Cute Little City (MCHH book III)
Cheating Death (Cheating Death book 1)
The Short Death of Dakota Pemberton (Cheating Death book 2)
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