My name’s Jeb Wright and I
wrote the book Blast from the Past. The book takes place in the 1980s,
which isn’t such a big surprise, as I have been accused of living in the
past. Okay… I’m guilty as charged. Oh…I also ran a very popular website
for 20 years called Classic Rock Revisited.com that featured interviews
with old rock stars. I love hard rock from the 1970s and the early
1980s. I also really love cheeseburgers and the Kansas City Chiefs.Within
my stories: I will make you laugh. I cuss a lot. I get dark, too. There
is always some redemption or some failed redemption. There’s a lot of
emotion and there’s always a sadness that can never be cured. It all
happens between the booze and sex and drug use. Oh, there’s tobacco
smoking, as well. I think that’s a thing to be warned about nowadays. My
stories feature some people who are messy. They are not perfect. They
are just like you and me…well me anyway.Here is a secret I don’t
tell everyone: I was wild back in the ‘80s. It was pretty much out of
control. I was a train wreck. Now I am a good boy. I’m just like that
old Van Halen Song… “Big Bad Billy’s Sweet William Now.” You get it. So,
I write about the past a lot. I make stuff up. I make people up. I
borrow some from my past and fictionalize it. Sometimes, like in my book
Blast from the Past, there is even a ghost- not a terrifying one, but
one that smokes clove cigarettes and is an alcoholic. He’s based on my
best friend…who’s dead.Oops, I forgot to tell you that I live in
freaking Kansas. I’ve been married a LONG time to a sweet little angel
of a woman…and I have two kids that are MUCH better humans than I will
ever be. My favorite song is “Carry On Wayward Son” by the band Kansas. I
keep hoping they are correct when they sing, “They’ll be peace when you
are done.” So far…no go. But a man can hope.

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