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May 27, 2025
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Kill the Leprechaun and Blast from the Past eBook .99 cents each now through June 2nd (U.S. only)
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Join a man who knows he's not real, a mischievous novelist, and a motley crew of outcasts in an off-the-wall adventure across America.
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Blast from the Past by Jeb Wright
Two best friends, one alive and one dead, travel back in time to 1983 to face their wild and decadent, turned tragic, past.
Purchase Now for only .99 cents
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Kill The Leprechaun by James "Jeb" Wright
Join a man who knows he's not real, a mischievous novelist, and a motley crew of outcasts in an off-the-wall adventure across America.
Get your copy today for only .99 cents
USA:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6XC4FQ5
________
Blast from the Past by Jeb Wright
Two best friends, one alive and one dead, travel back in time to 1983 to face their wild and decadent, turned tragic, past.
Purchase Now for only .99 cents
USA:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6T4RDQN
July 1, 2024
Available Now! Kill the Leprechaun
I am thrilled to announce that Kill the Leprechaun is available now!
What could go wrong when a troubled novelist creates a world full of dysfunctional, malcontent misfits? Everything!
Kill the Leprechaun is an off-the-wall adventure that lover's of absurd, offbeat, darkly comedic tales will want to own - get your copy today and enjoy!
Thank you all for your support - I loved writing this book for you and I hope you love reading it!
Kill the Leprechaun
What could go wrong when a troubled novelist creates a world full of dysfunctional, malcontent misfits? Everything!
Kill the Leprechaun is an off-the-wall adventure that lover's of absurd, offbeat, darkly comedic tales will want to own - get your copy today and enjoy!
Thank you all for your support - I loved writing this book for you and I hope you love reading it!
Kill the Leprechaun
June 14, 2024
New Release Pre-order- Kill the Leprechaun
New release alert!
Kill the leprechaun: A darkly comedic, absurd adventure by Jeb Wright
eBook available for pre-order now. Release date 7/1/2024.
For fans of offbeat tales, dark humor, and absurdist fiction.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6XC4FQ5
Kill the leprechaun: A darkly comedic, absurd adventure by Jeb Wright
eBook available for pre-order now. Release date 7/1/2024.
For fans of offbeat tales, dark humor, and absurdist fiction.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6XC4FQ5
May 29, 2024
Coming Soon...Kill The Leprechaun by Jeb Wright
Coming Soon! Kill the Leprechaun by Jeb Wright
Walter Schmiblitz is a frustrated man who is aware he’s a figment of author Jeb Wright's imagination. Jeb purposely made him know this and has even inserted himself into his self-made universe right alongside poor ol' Walt.
Get ready for an absurd adventure filled with unexpected plot twists, dark humor, and colorful characters, all wrapped around a bit of sci-fi and fantasy. If you're a fan of off-beat tales, then Kill the Leprechaun may soon become one of your favorite books.
Stay tuned...
Walter Schmiblitz is a frustrated man who is aware he’s a figment of author Jeb Wright's imagination. Jeb purposely made him know this and has even inserted himself into his self-made universe right alongside poor ol' Walt.
Get ready for an absurd adventure filled with unexpected plot twists, dark humor, and colorful characters, all wrapped around a bit of sci-fi and fantasy. If you're a fan of off-beat tales, then Kill the Leprechaun may soon become one of your favorite books.
Stay tuned...
June 27, 2023
Interview with Author Jeb Wright
Ultimate Classic Rock caught up with author Jeb Wright to discuss his novel Blast from the Past...Enjoy!
How Yes’ ‘90125’ Became the Password in a New Time-Traveling Book
by Matt Wardlaw
Read Interview Here: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-9...
Purchase Book Here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6T4RDQN?...
How Yes’ ‘90125’ Became the Password in a New Time-Traveling Book
by Matt Wardlaw
Read Interview Here: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-9...
Purchase Book Here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6T4RDQN?...
April 17, 2023
Blast from the Past eBook on Sale: 4 days only
eBook on Sale: 4 days only
Kindle Countdown Deal 4/17 through 4/20
April 17th & 18th .99cents; April 19th & 20th $1.99
Nostalgic, Edgy, Emotional, Bittersweet
Blast from the Past is a dual-period time travel adventure that transports you back and forth between 2020 and the wild days of the Decade of Decadence, as two best friends, one alive and one dead, attempt to heal old wounds.
Buy Here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6T4RDQN?...
Kindle Countdown Deal 4/17 through 4/20
April 17th & 18th .99cents; April 19th & 20th $1.99
Nostalgic, Edgy, Emotional, Bittersweet
Blast from the Past is a dual-period time travel adventure that transports you back and forth between 2020 and the wild days of the Decade of Decadence, as two best friends, one alive and one dead, attempt to heal old wounds.
Buy Here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6T4RDQN?...
December 6, 2022
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August 14, 2022
In-between the pages
In-between the Pages (Volume I)
By Jeb Wright
Welcome to my blog! This is the spot where I open up and tell you what it was like to write my novel, Blast from the Past. Before we get into all of the nuts and bolts of what it takes for a 56 year old, white dude from a small town in Kansas to decide to publish his first novel, I thought I’d tell you what inspired me to undertake this experiment of words, in the first place.
You may think it was my love of the English language, or my desire to write over the need to eat or sleep that drove my desire to create a novel. After all, I’m a writer. The only reason to write a novel would be derived from my lifelong long of reading. Right? Trust me, I wish any of those things were true. The real reason I ended up writing Blast from the Past has nothing to do with any of that. It all happened because I had a really wild time road tripping to a rock concert back in 1983.
I wish I could tell you that the band I went to see with my three friends and our thirty-something year old pot dealer was wild as hell like Motley Crue. They weren’t. It was the band Yes. While they are some of the most skilled musicians to take the stage, wild they are not. Still, what happened that night…was wild. We got high. We got drunk. We ate mushrooms. Dave and I got lost and ended up backstage and sat in the bands’ limousine. There was a broken Steppenwolf 8-track and we got lost on the way home and ended up in a redneck truck stop where attempted to dine and dash. And we would have gotten away with it if it were not for the Oklahoma Highway patrol.
I’m just scratching the surface of the wild night we had as juniors in high school going to see an old band reinvent themselves with their platinum selling album titled 90125. Yes ended up having two FM radio hits off the album. The first was the now classic “Owner of a Lonely Heart.” The other was a cool tune with an even cooler MTV video called “Leave It.”
I have a little secret. I have written three other novels. They still need work. I need to do what all writers will relate to…I need to rewrite them a few more times and get them to a completed state. Oh, they are finished…they are just not done. Anyway…with each book I wrote, I learned. My mentor, the award winning crime novelist Chad Sanborn, pushed me to get better. So, when that old itch reared it’s ugly head, I knew it was time to write again. I thought of the Yes concert. I decided this time , I was going to do it. The story ended up not being about that Yes concert at all. Well, that’s not true. A better way to explain it would be to say that the story became about much more than a Yes concert.
When I started, I didn’t have a drunken ghost. I didn’t have a protagonist so stuck in the past he was ruining his present life. I didn’t have a lady named Desiree that ruined my best friend’s life. I didn’t have anything, other than a wild night at a concert over thirty years ago.
I took that inspiration and made an outline. I weaved the Yes album 90125 into the story, almost as a character. I created a story with a message. By the time I was done, I was ready to start writing, or so I thought I was. My mentor, Chad, read it and told me I was being a wussy and taking many easy ways out. He challenged me. I was pissed off at him…more than once. But, he was correct. So, I went back and outlined the story again. I made major changes. I pushed myself until I was ready to write the tale. I made sure each chapter pushed the story forward. I made sure the characters were alive…and real. I made sure they had a reason to be in this tale.
Before my eyes, it began to take shape. I knew at that point, I was writing the best novel I was capable of. Then, I ended up writing it about a dozen more times. I’m very thrilled with what I ended up with and I am happy with the early success I am having, including being a Hot New Release in a couple of categories on Amazon. I’m confident that more great things are to come, but it all started way back in 1983 when a much younger version of me bought a ticket to see a progressive rock band play a sold out show in the state of Oklahoma. Isn’t it funny how life works out?
Well, that’s all I’ve got for now. Keep checking back and I will show you the frustration I went through trying to write this wild story. The story between the pages will hopefully give you a rare look behind the curtain and tell you the secrets that made this one a winner. I bet this is gonna be fun!
By Jeb Wright
Welcome to my blog! This is the spot where I open up and tell you what it was like to write my novel, Blast from the Past. Before we get into all of the nuts and bolts of what it takes for a 56 year old, white dude from a small town in Kansas to decide to publish his first novel, I thought I’d tell you what inspired me to undertake this experiment of words, in the first place.
You may think it was my love of the English language, or my desire to write over the need to eat or sleep that drove my desire to create a novel. After all, I’m a writer. The only reason to write a novel would be derived from my lifelong long of reading. Right? Trust me, I wish any of those things were true. The real reason I ended up writing Blast from the Past has nothing to do with any of that. It all happened because I had a really wild time road tripping to a rock concert back in 1983.
I wish I could tell you that the band I went to see with my three friends and our thirty-something year old pot dealer was wild as hell like Motley Crue. They weren’t. It was the band Yes. While they are some of the most skilled musicians to take the stage, wild they are not. Still, what happened that night…was wild. We got high. We got drunk. We ate mushrooms. Dave and I got lost and ended up backstage and sat in the bands’ limousine. There was a broken Steppenwolf 8-track and we got lost on the way home and ended up in a redneck truck stop where attempted to dine and dash. And we would have gotten away with it if it were not for the Oklahoma Highway patrol.
I’m just scratching the surface of the wild night we had as juniors in high school going to see an old band reinvent themselves with their platinum selling album titled 90125. Yes ended up having two FM radio hits off the album. The first was the now classic “Owner of a Lonely Heart.” The other was a cool tune with an even cooler MTV video called “Leave It.”
I have a little secret. I have written three other novels. They still need work. I need to do what all writers will relate to…I need to rewrite them a few more times and get them to a completed state. Oh, they are finished…they are just not done. Anyway…with each book I wrote, I learned. My mentor, the award winning crime novelist Chad Sanborn, pushed me to get better. So, when that old itch reared it’s ugly head, I knew it was time to write again. I thought of the Yes concert. I decided this time , I was going to do it. The story ended up not being about that Yes concert at all. Well, that’s not true. A better way to explain it would be to say that the story became about much more than a Yes concert.
When I started, I didn’t have a drunken ghost. I didn’t have a protagonist so stuck in the past he was ruining his present life. I didn’t have a lady named Desiree that ruined my best friend’s life. I didn’t have anything, other than a wild night at a concert over thirty years ago.
I took that inspiration and made an outline. I weaved the Yes album 90125 into the story, almost as a character. I created a story with a message. By the time I was done, I was ready to start writing, or so I thought I was. My mentor, Chad, read it and told me I was being a wussy and taking many easy ways out. He challenged me. I was pissed off at him…more than once. But, he was correct. So, I went back and outlined the story again. I made major changes. I pushed myself until I was ready to write the tale. I made sure each chapter pushed the story forward. I made sure the characters were alive…and real. I made sure they had a reason to be in this tale.
Before my eyes, it began to take shape. I knew at that point, I was writing the best novel I was capable of. Then, I ended up writing it about a dozen more times. I’m very thrilled with what I ended up with and I am happy with the early success I am having, including being a Hot New Release in a couple of categories on Amazon. I’m confident that more great things are to come, but it all started way back in 1983 when a much younger version of me bought a ticket to see a progressive rock band play a sold out show in the state of Oklahoma. Isn’t it funny how life works out?
Well, that’s all I’ve got for now. Keep checking back and I will show you the frustration I went through trying to write this wild story. The story between the pages will hopefully give you a rare look behind the curtain and tell you the secrets that made this one a winner. I bet this is gonna be fun!
August 11, 2022
Welcome to my blog!
My name’s Jeb Wright and I wrote the book Blast from the Past. The book takes place in the 1980s, which isn’t such a big surprise, as I have been accused of living in the past. Okay… I’m guilty as charged. Oh…I also ran a very popular website for 20 years called Classic Rock Revisited.com that featured interviews with old rock stars. I love hard rock from the 1970s and the early 1980s. I also really love cheeseburgers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Within my stories: I will make you laugh. I cuss a lot. I get dark, too. There is always some redemption or some failed redemption. There’s a lot of emotion and there’s always a sadness that can never be cured. It all happens between the booze and sex and drug use. Oh, there’s tobacco smoking, as well. I think that’s a thing to be warned about nowadays. My stories feature some people who are messy. They are not perfect. They are just like you and me…well me anyway.
Here is a secret I don’t tell everyone: I was wild back in the ‘80s. It was pretty much out of control. I was a train wreck. Now I am a good boy. I’m just like that old Van Halen Song… “Big Bad Billy’s Sweet William Now.” You get it. So, I write about the past a lot. I make stuff up. I make people up. I borrow some from my past and fictionalize it. Sometimes, like in my book Blast from the Past, there is even a ghost- not a terrifying one, but one that smokes clove cigarettes and is an alcoholic. He’s based on my best friend…who’s dead.
Oops, I forgot to tell you that I live in freaking Kansas. I’ve been married a LONG time to a sweet little angel of a woman…and I have two kids that are MUCH better humans than I will ever be. My favorite song is “Carry On Wayward Son” by the band Kansas. I keep hoping they are correct when they sing, “They’ll be peace when you are done.” So far…no go. But a man can hope.
Within my stories: I will make you laugh. I cuss a lot. I get dark, too. There is always some redemption or some failed redemption. There’s a lot of emotion and there’s always a sadness that can never be cured. It all happens between the booze and sex and drug use. Oh, there’s tobacco smoking, as well. I think that’s a thing to be warned about nowadays. My stories feature some people who are messy. They are not perfect. They are just like you and me…well me anyway.
Here is a secret I don’t tell everyone: I was wild back in the ‘80s. It was pretty much out of control. I was a train wreck. Now I am a good boy. I’m just like that old Van Halen Song… “Big Bad Billy’s Sweet William Now.” You get it. So, I write about the past a lot. I make stuff up. I make people up. I borrow some from my past and fictionalize it. Sometimes, like in my book Blast from the Past, there is even a ghost- not a terrifying one, but one that smokes clove cigarettes and is an alcoholic. He’s based on my best friend…who’s dead.
Oops, I forgot to tell you that I live in freaking Kansas. I’ve been married a LONG time to a sweet little angel of a woman…and I have two kids that are MUCH better humans than I will ever be. My favorite song is “Carry On Wayward Son” by the band Kansas. I keep hoping they are correct when they sing, “They’ll be peace when you are done.” So far…no go. But a man can hope.
August 5, 2022
Blast from the Past - Amazon Hot New Release!
Woo Hoo! Blast from the Past ebook has hit Amazon's hot new release list in coming of age fiction!
If you haven't purchased your copy yet...here's a link...
Blast from the Past: In order to fix what went wrong; sometimes you have to do it again!
If you haven't purchased your copy yet...here's a link...
Blast from the Past: In order to fix what went wrong; sometimes you have to do it again!
Blast from the Past Blog - Inbetween the Pages
My first fiction novel Blast from the Past has officially been released!
Get your copy here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6T3Y395
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