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Jake Devlin

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"Jake Devlin" is the pseudonym of a passively gregarious (and very wise) twenty-plus-year resident of the city of Bonita Springs, Florida, nestled between Naples and Ft. Myers on the beautiful blue-green Gulf of Mexico.

His 45-year background as an actor, playwright, director, television writer and producer, investor, trader, court reporter and in defense intelligence and security (he can't discuss that any further) gives him a unique perspective on the world (no more nor less unique than anybody else's, of course, but most assuredly different), and he brings that (along with his ongoing sense of amusement at it all) to his wrting and to his life.

He enjoys challenging readers' brains and tickling their funnybones, and he gleefully rides roug "Jake Devlin" is the pseudonym of a passively gregarious (and very wise) twenty-plus-year resident of the city of Bonita Springs, Florida, nestled between Naples and Ft. Myers on the beautiful blue-green Gulf of Mexico.

His 45-year background as an actor, playwright, director, television writer and producer, investor, trader, court reporter and in defense intelligence and security (he can't discuss that any further) gives him a unique perspective on the world (no more nor less unique than anybody else's, of course, but most assuredly different), and he brings that (along with his ongoing sense of amusement at it all) to his wrting and to his life.

He enjoys challenging readers' brains and tickling their funnybones, and he gleefully rides roughshod over literary cliches and conventions while gently seducing his readers into emotional roller-coaster rides, with mind-bending twists and turns, in all of his work (well, in most of it, to be accurate).

Happily retired and gloatingly distant from his earlier domiciles in northern climes, he sets his novels in and around the placid beaches of Bonita Springs, with hopes (on a MUCH smaller scale, of course; he doesn't take himself too seriously) to do for Bonita what Randy Wayne White has done for Sanibel with his Doc Ford books: put it on the literary map.

As for influences, he points to White, Dorsey, Fitzhugh, Buffett, Clancy, Laffer, Pirandello, Rollins, Grisham, Eisler, Hicks, Cussler, Machiavelli, McElhatton, Brown, Baldacci, Borge and hundreds of other economists, authors, philosophers, traders and comedians, most of whose names he's QH'd (Quarterheimered; forgotten). Oh, Ludlum, too. And whatsisname ... ah, right. Shakespeare. And Pinter and the other ... oh, Beckett. Seinfeld, too. And Friedman, Monty Python and the Smothers Brothers.

He ages mostly comfortably (other than that Quarterheimer's thing) in Bonita Springs (at least when he's on his meds; when he's not, he writes).

(By the way, that parenthetical about his meds is just a joke; he only takes a multivitamin and an aspirin each day. But he does use self-defecating humor often; he just can't resist it. And please don't inquire further into his work in the intelligence/security fields. He knows seventeen ways to kill using just his earlobes.)

(Oops; that was a typo; it's actually only seven ways.) ...more

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What sources do you use to come up with the colorful, multidimensional characters that occupy your novels?

Jake Devlin Good question, Ms. Hanson. And the answer is - ready? - 68 years of observing and listening to people, and then pulling from all that the styles and p…moreGood question, Ms. Hanson. And the answer is - ready? - 68 years of observing and listening to people, and then pulling from all that the styles and personality quirks that fit my plots.

My novels are more plot-driven than character-driven, and in lieu of character development, it's more character revelation, peeling back layers as the plot unfolds..

I've used the names (first only) of people I know in, on and around Bonita Beach, and a few of their idiosyncracies, again when they fit. I've also pushed additional characteristics onto them when needed.

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For example, two actual sisters I know, named Carie and Jill, became the Mimosa Twins, surveillance experts and bodyguards with appropriate skills, and a Mrs. Ohio or Indiana or Illinois of 1985, 6 or 7 (I forget exactly) who was on the beach in 2010 became the inspiration for the gorgeous, bright and skilled Pamela93. Pictures of those three are on my Twitter profile page. I won't say anything about the character named Ron, especially since I don't know his last name in real life, other than I think his character accurately reflects his real-life personality.

And as for Gordon Donne, he is NOT based on any real-life person or people, although I could see a Wallace Shawn or Bob Balaban (google them) or a non-neurotic Woody Allen type playing him in the movie. (NOT a LIam Neeson, Charlton Heston or Jeremy Irons type.)

I hope that answers your question. Feel free to ask for more detail or another question. And I hope you enjoy(ed) the first and second books and will enjoy the third one when it comes out.(less)

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	The Devlin Deception: Anti-Political Absurdist Thriller - Book One of The Devlin Quatrology by Jake Devlin (Goodreads Author), Bonnie Springs 3.94 avg rating — 16 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
	The Dracula Deception: Madness, Mayhem & One Crazy Vampire really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	BOULD* Awards 2020 Short Story Anthology:: 3.67 avg rating — 6 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
	Devlin Sub Rosa it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	257 Ways to Fix the USA it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Devlin's Defiance: Book Two of the Devlin Quatrology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	BOULD* Awards 2018 Short Story Anthology: by Jake Devlin (Goodreads Author), Ron Delaney Jr. (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 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
	BOULD* Awards 2021 Short Story Anthology - Volume 1 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	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
	Devlin's Demise? Book Four of The Devlin Quatrology: A Gritty Espionage, Assassination and Technological Thriller it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Perflutzed - Bizarre, Outrageous Short Stories from the Probably Haywired Brain of Jake Devlin: Plus a couple of bonus tales from the erotic mind of Dallas Dalyce by Jake Devlin (Goodreads Author), Dallas Dalyce it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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