Many people ask me where my name Dutch (Jones) came from. Most realize I wasn’t born with the name Dutch, although that would have been cool. It happened a long time ago, in a far away place… actually New Jersey. I was stationed at Fort Dix for my basic training for the Army, I was …
Writing Long Trip Home was a fascinating process for me. The story idea came to me when I was in my early 20’s, so like ten years ago, uh hum. I had this awesome idea, I quickly wrote down some of the main points and a rough outline of the two main characters; one I knew was …
If you follow me at all you know I was invited to an Oscar After Party, “Salute to the Stars”, at the W Hotel in Hollywood. Thank you to Kathy Brown for the introductions and to Bob Hellman the host! It was a night of stars! The rain stopped, the clouds parted and the stars …
Boring, boring, boring, but here it goes: It cost my parents the monumental sum of $8.86 for me to come into the world. It was 1959, my Dad was in the Army. The fact is the $8.86 wasn’t for the hospital or the doctors it was for the food my Mom ate while she was …
I just recently finished my newest novel, E.A.P. The Untold Story. I started thinking about the story the other day, what it means to me, and why I wrote it. E.A.P. are Elvis (Aaron) Presley’s initials; I have been an Elvis fan since I can remember. I had all of his albums and watched all of his …
Wow, Where’d That Come From? I can’t say for sure what happened. I just finished E.A.P. The Untold Story, a novel that explains what actually happened to Elvis Presley, you know, if he really died on August 16th 1977 or not. Not a week went by and a story that I’ve had an idea for popped …
