When Jeff is told he looks younger than his age, his reply is that it’s because he doesn’t have a lot of gray hair. But he does have a writing resume that is aged and weathered—one that shows his many years of effort, determination, and literary accomplishments.

Like most writers, Jeff began experimenting with words on paper, very early in life. At around twelve he moved toward drawing comic strips and dabbling with poems and short stories. In his teen years and throughout his twenties and thirties, he landed on verse and chorus when songwriting became his passion—so much that he once drove his pickup truck, essentially non-stop, from Northwest Ohio to Central Colorado, to attend a prestigious songwriting seminar in the Rockies. While he drove during the nighttime hours, his pregnant wife and barely two-year-old daughter slept in the truck bed (yes, it was padded and had a heavy-duty, extended cap on it).

At age forty, as a skilled tradesman, Jeff decided to add a college degree to his journeyman credentials. And it was at that age, while writing college papers, that he realized he could effectively write in multiple genres and with varying styles.

“Writing is writing,” he says.

In 2005, shortly before graduating as an honor’s student, Jeff’s Comp instructor, Jim Bosserman, referred to Jeff as “an excellent writer” and told him, “You should be writing.”

Jeff laughed it off. And then—finding himself out of work fifteen months later—he stopped laughing and started writing.

From then on, Jeff has devoted himself to writing and editing at a professional level.

As if making up for lost time and years gone by, getting published came quickly and often for Jeff. Also, four months into his alleged writing career, he was hired to write for a high-profile soldier in Texas. Since that time, there has been no slowdowns nor turning back.

Reach In Word is the accumulative result of Jeff’s efforts.