Interviews with indie authors, publishers and book service providers in the self-publishing realm
An Interview with Jeff Lee: Author of Karl Myers
Jeff Lee, a retired educator and once avid sailor, currently divides his time between Chester County, Pennsylvania and Lewes on the Delaware Bay, where he now directs his creative energies to his life-long love of writing.
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Set in 1955 in Lewes on the Delaware Bay, the novel Karl Myers meets James Ellroy’s characterization of Noir as “the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance … it canonizes the inherent human urge toward self-destruction.”
Former Marine and small-town police chief Karl Myers is one of four principal characters, each of whom hurtles headlong toward […]


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