Jeff began his professional writing journey in 1994 when he received a 3-book contract for his fiction--based on only the first six chapters of his novel. He went on to be hired as an editor by that publishing house, and that began his dual career as pro writer and editor.

Over the years, Jeff has written more than 20 books, fiction and nonfiction, mostly under his own name but also as co-writer and sometimes as ghostwriter.

In 2008, Jeff launched Marcher Lord Press, a small publishing house dedicated to publishing science fiction and fantasy novels with a spiritual edge. After a successful 5-year run, Jeff sold the company to a colleague, and the company lives on as Enclave Publishing.

Jeff is a five-time author for Writer's Digest Books, the leader in instructional books for writers. His WD books "Plot Versus Character" and "The First 50 Pages" have been translated into Mandarin, which led to Jeff traveling to Beijing in 2015 to teach 100 Chinese college professors how to write better fiction.

When he's on this side of the Pacific, Jeff is an in-demand teacher at writers' conferences all over America. He teaches primarily on how to write engaging fiction, most recently drawing largely from his self-published craft book "Hack Your Reader's Brain."

His film school degree helps him write screenplays as well, and two of his scripts have been produced into films.

Jeff is an expert writer in fiction and nonfiction, in long form and short form, and for consumption as text or moving images on the screen.