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Jake Needham

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Texas, The United States

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Mystery & Thrillers

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JAKE NEEDHAM received the Barry Award at Bouchercon 2024, the world's largest convention of mystery readers, for BEST PAPERBACK MYSTERY OF 2024. He is a three-time Barry Award nominee, as well as a nominee for the International Thriller Writers' award for BEST PAPERBACK THRILLER OF THE YEAR.

Needham is an American screen and television writer who has lived in Thailand for over thirty years. He started writing crime novels when he realized he really didn't like movies and television all that much. Since then, he has published twenty popular mysteries and thrillers in three different series — The Charlie Trust Legal Thrillers, the Inspector Samuel Tay Novels, and the Jack Shepherd Novels — as well as the international bestseller, THE BIG MANGO ...more

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Jake Needham The commute to work is really short...

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jake Needham If you're a professional, you show up every damn day, you put your butt in a chair, and you do your work. If you whine about not being able to write i…moreIf you're a professional, you show up every damn day, you put your butt in a chair, and you do your work. If you whine about not being able to write instead of working, you're not a professional. Simple as that.(less)

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Bob4you Spoken like a true professional.
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Ben Arnold I'm so happy you said that. I've been researching the life of authors for many decades now and I've never come across anything but discussion after di I'm so happy you said that. I've been researching the life of authors for many decades now and I've never come across anything but discussion after discussion concerning the dreaded disease of writer's block. And one day it hit me, I've never met anyone, or read about anyone whose career ended in writer's block. It was a total scam! Imagine how many authors have banked on books about overcoming writer's block, instead of actually writing books that matter. It's a total sham. After feeding off their teets, one day I grew up, and just moving on, I came across your quote, and thought to myself, what a life wasted, for so many people, who live in something you and I don't know about, it's called the opposite of reality, something we're trying to understand, and are certain can be helped if they take certain psychotherapy drugs. Wow. Thank you for speaking truth, rather than following the line of the mainstream. Kudos for your decisions in Singapore too, wish more people had an American spirit in them, the American people sure could use one, and wish more who had one didn't end up in prison or dead for example the authors and journalists in China who dare speak their mind. People always ask me why I don't live in China, when most of my business is in China. I'm always startled by their question, don't they read the news? China has all the money, but that doesn't mean I'd live there, and thanks to modern tools we don't need to. And can still rake in all that money that they got from America, the trillions upon trillions, and all the gold, etc. Some times I have a dream that money still exists in America, and I wake up so happy, smiling, and then I realize it was just a dream, and I scream in horror as the past decades of Facebook/Twitter timeline news feeds re-stream through my mind snapping me back to the present day and I sob like a baby in the fetal position. So you can't print in Singapore. I'm happy that your work is still accepted in all other 240 countries. It's funny how these seemingly huge problems are actually just a creepy crawly tick you picked up on your wee wee while canoeing down the Mississippi river and I've had dozens and to this day still don't even care, just plucked them out, probably broke off the head like they tell ya you're not supposed to do, and I'm still as healthy as a horse. But I have a raging migraine at the moment. Had McDs yesterday. Heaven help us! ...more
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Malcolm Roscow From now published author to another, well said.
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Average rating: 4.23 · 14,167 ratings · 940 reviews · 51 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Ambassador's Wife (Inspector Samuel Tay #1) 4.05 avg rating — 2,785 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laundry Man (The Jack Shepherd Novels #1) 3.80 avg rating — 1,653 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead American (Inspector Samuel Tay #3) 4.20 avg rating — 1,121 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Umbrella Man (Inspector Samuel Tay #2) 4.28 avg rating — 898 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing Plato (The Jack Shepherd Novels #2) 4.05 avg rating — 887 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who the Hell is Harry Black? (Inspector Samuel Tay #7) 4.57 avg rating — 725 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Brother It's Starting to Rain (Inspector Samuel Tay #5) 4.48 avg rating — 634 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl in the Window (Inspector Samuel Tay #4) 4.45 avg rating — 629 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mongkok Station (Inspector Samuel Tay #6) 4.57 avg rating — 580 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A World of Trouble (The Jack Shepherd Novels #3) 4.23 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jake Needham

The Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels (12 books)
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Inspector Samuel Tay (7 books)
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Jack Shepherd (6 books)
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“For some reason, America produced an inexhaustible supply of sanctimonious killjoys endlessly crusading to improve everyone else’s life.”
― Jake Needham, And Brother It's Starting to Rain

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“Oh for God’s sake, Jack, lighten up. You know the old saying. Every man loves the smell of his own farts.” In”
― Jake Needham, Laundry Man

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“An escorted basis?” Tay asked. “Authorized embassy personnel must be with you at all times.” “What happens if I have to go to the bathroom?” The young marine didn’t smile. “I hear that one every day, sir.” God, what’s wrong with these people? Don’t any of them have a sense of humor?”
― Jake Needham, The Ambassador's Wife

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