JEREMY L. C. JONES JOINS THE FIGHT CARD TEAM
JEREMY L. C. JONES JOINS THE FIGHT CARD TEAM
In 2014, Fight Card will be publishing a series of short story anthologies with boxing and MMA tales from a wide variety of authors. These collections will be produced under the newly established Fight Card Presents imprint, which will be co-edited by Jeremy L. C. Jones and Paul Bishop. All royalties from the Fight Card Presents anthologies will go directly to literary or author-in-need charities …
Freelance writer, editor, and teacher, Jeremy L. C. Jones lives in South Carolina. He gets up early, writes about music and books for newspapers, magazines, and webpages, then drives over to the college to teach a literature class to non-majors, and comes home and writes some more. It also means he talks to his dogs much more than he talks to people.
Jones grew up in South Florida in the ’70s and ’80s. This means is his childhood was a cross between Miami Vice, Conan the Barbarian, and Apocalypse Now, with a whole lot of going to see Star Wars, playing soccer, and hunting cocounts with spears made out of steak knives taped to broom handles. Yes, that’s exactly what it was like, only a lot preppier and a lot crazier.
He’s had a lot of jobs he wasn’t very good at. He’s worked retail, maintenance, and construction. He’s laid sod and tennis court clay. He’s been a dish washer, food runner, appetizer chef, and cook. He’s been a courier for a law firm and an editor for a newspaper. The last one, he did a pretty good job at for a 20 year old Floridian living in an Alaskan fishing village. Mostly, he’s a teacher, like his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather before him.
Jones got hooked on boxing by watching Ali with his dad as a kid (and stopped when Tyson bit that guy’s ear) and by reading Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Erskine Caldwell, and Harry Crews in college.
After years away, Jones has returned to his first love: making stuff up. This December will see the debut of Outlaw Unchained, a monthly series of short stories, novelletes, and novellas (High Noon Press) written by Jones and based on a character created by Frank Roderus. Also debuting in December is the Western Fictioneers Storytellers collections of essays about writing westerns co-edited with Troy D. Smith and the first of the Fight Card anthologies. Jones’ first Fight Card novella and the anthology Old Hounds & Young Pups (Piccadilly) co-edited with Jory Sherman are due out in early 2014.
