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Jonathan Geffner

Goodreads Author

Born

New York City

Website

https://www.facebook.com/ventriloquist

Genre

Mystery, Crime, Humor and Comedy

Member Since

October 2013

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/jongeffner

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I'm a professional ventriloquist, as well as a pianist, screenwriter, Yiddish teacher and a few other things. Having written a few feature film screenplays featuring the ventriloquist/dummy detective duo of Trillo & Suede, I've tried for the past fourteen years to find funding to produce them as independent films. Several times the funding seemed to be nearly in my grasp, only to see it disappear each time into the Indie Film Makers' Twilight Zone. While the Village Sleeps is a novelization of one of those screenplays. I think it works very well as a novel. I hope you agree. I plan to rework several other Trillo & Suede screenplays into novels and epublish them as well. Enjoy! ...more

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	While the Village Sleeps it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013	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
	Geffner & Friends: Hanukkah! by Jonathan Geffner (Goodreads Author), Zachary Strobel 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	Geffner & Friends: Choose Your Own Rosh Hashanah Adventure! by Zachary Strobel, Jonathan Geffner (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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