Gerald Everett Jones

Gerald Everett Jones won six book awards in 2020, seven in 2021, and six in 2022: 2022 - Independent Press Award (IPA) Distinguished Favorite in General Fiction and Reader's Choice 5 Star in Fiction for "Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner." National Association of Book Entrepreneurs (NABE) Pinnacle Best in Mystery and TheBookFest Spring Third Place in Mystery Murder & Crime for "Preacher Raises the Dead." TheBookFest Spring Honorable Mention in Literary Fiction for "Clifford's Spiral." International Review of Books Gold in Fiction for "My Inflatable Friend." 2021 - NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite in General Fiction, NABE Pinnacle Best in Literary Fiction, Florida Authors and Publishers Association (FAPA) President's Award Bronze, Royal Dragonfly Honorable Mention in Literary Fiction, Shelf Unbound Best Indies Top Shelf 100 in Fiction, Book Publicists of Southern California IRWIN Best in Literary Fiction for "Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner." NABE Pinnacle Best in Mystery for "Preacher Finds a Corpse." 2020 - First (Gold) and Second (Silver) place in the Mystery category of NYC Big Book Awards for "Preacher Finds a Corpse" and its sequel "Preacher Fakes a Miracle." IPA Distinguished Favorite in Mystery, Eric Hoffer Finalist in Mystery for "Preacher Finds a Corpse," IPA Distinguished Favorite in Literary Fiction for "Clifford's Spiral," Eric Hoffer Finalist in Business for "How to Lie with Charts." Gerald says, "I write mystery-thrillers and literary fiction for adult readers who seek insight, fascination, and delight in the adventures of their own lives. When I was in high school, my chemistry teacher approached me and asked with a sly grin, 'You interested in mining?' I told him absolutely not. I was going to be a writer. Little did I suspect that he wanted to send me to a student conference on metallurgy where I could seek the fellowship of like-minded teens on a minimally supervised road trip to the Big City. Undeterred by my abrupt negative response, he grumbled, 'Well, you're interested in mining your own business, aren't you?' And he sent me anyway. Now I realize I should've listened more carefully to everything he said." He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University. He is the author of 12 novels, most recently "Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner," the Preacher Evan Wycliff mystery-thriller series, and the psychological literary novel "Clifford's Spiral." He wrote a series of three satiric Rollo Hemphill misadventures, the adult melodrama "Christmas Karma," the crime story "Choke Hold," the father-son comedy "Mr. Ballpoint," and the historical thriller "Bonfire of the Vanderbilts." He co-authored the nonfiction memoir "The Light in His Soul: Lessons from My Brother's Schizophrenia." He has also written more than 25 nonfiction books on business and technical subjects and is an award-winning screenwriter. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Women's National Book Association, as well as serving on the board of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC). His business title "How to Lie with Charts" has become something of a classic on the subject of presentation design and has been adopted as courseware at some universities. He is the host of the GetPublished! Radio show. Learn more at geraldeverettjones.com.