I’d like to welcome author, Jeff Marioette, to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday.

Things you love about writing: I love the act of creating worlds that never existed and populating them with people who never existed, but that make readers think they could have.

Things you hate about writing: I hate the stress of deadlines and the necessity of sitting in the chair and typing to meet them.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Knowing what words to use and what order to put them in is hard.

Easiest thing about being a writer: Signing autographs (within reason—10,000 in three days is too many).

Words that describe you: Introvert, kind, creative

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Introvert, conflict-avoiding, “old white guy”

Favorite foods: Pizza, chocolate, waffles, pasta, poultry, apples, mandarins

Things that make you want to gag: Cauliflower, Brussels sprouts

Favorite music or song: Country rock, folk rock, rock rock

Music that drives you crazy: Disco

Favorite beverage: Iced tea (sweet)

Something that gives you a sour face: Kombucha

Things you always put in your books: I always try to include action, suspense, and at least one bear.

Things you never put in your books: Footnotes, endnotes, and tea parties.

Things to say to an author: I bought your book! I really loved your book! I preordered your book! Your book was really creepy/terrifying/riveting!

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I would write a book if I had time; Here’s what you should’ve done; I don’t read books; You write the book based on my idea and we’ll split the profits 50/50.

Favorite books (or genre): Thrillers, mysteries, westerns, horror, true crime, history.

Books you wouldn’t buy: Technical manuals, regency romances, corporate-executive autobiographies.

People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Tom Hanks, Dolly Parton, Robert Redford, Katherine Ramsland, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney

People you’d cancel dinner on: Ted Cruz, Kim Kardashian, Mel Gibson, Ezra Miller

Best thing you’ve ever done: Marrying Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell, brilliant and beautiful wife and sometime co-author.

Biggest mistake: Not doing it sooner.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: I took off in and piloted a small plane.

Something you chickened out from doing: Landing it.

About Jeff

Jeffrey J. Mariotte has written more than sixty books, including the police-procedural mystery series Major Crimes Squad: Phoenix (launching in September 2022), historical Western epic Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta (with Peter Murrieta), the Cody Cavanaugh traditional Western series, supernatural thrillers River Runs Red, Missing White Girl, and Cold Black Hearts, horror epic The Slab, and the teen horror quartet Year of the Wicked. Other works include the acclaimed thrillers Empty Rooms and The Devil’s Bait, and—with his wife and writing partner Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell—the science fiction thriller 7 SYKOS and Mafia III: Plain of Jars, the authorized prequel to the hit video game, as well as shorter works. He has also written novels set in the worlds of Tarzan, Deadlands, Star Trek, CSI, NCIS, Narcos, 30 Days of Night, Spider-Man, Conan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and more. He is also the author of many comic books and graphic novels, including the original Western series Desperadoes, the horror series Fade to Black, action-adventure series Garrison, and the original graphic novel Zombie Cop.

Three of his novels have won Scribe Awards for Best Original Novel, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. He’s also won the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic-Con, is a co-winner of the Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and has been a finalist for the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, the Peacemaker Award from the Western Fictioneers, the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, the International Horror Guild Award, and for his comics writing, the Harvey Award and the Glyph Award.

He has worked in virtually every aspect of the book business, as a bookstore manager and owner, VP of Marketing for Image Comics/WildStorm, Senior Editor for DC Comics/WildStorm, and Editor-in-Chief for IDW Publishing and a publishing consultant for various companies. When he’s not writing, reading, or editing something, he’s probably out enjoying the desert landscape around the Arizona home he shares with his family and dog and cats.

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