News & Events Featuring Author DJ Geribo
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I'm excited to announce my lastest book, "Useful Pieces" coming soon! We are currently in the editing stages and after a complete read-through and edits, we'll be sending it off for a proof copy which we will go through again one final time. This is a long process but I'm expecting the book to be completed sometime this spring.
"Useful Pieces" will also soon be available for pre-order. Stay tuned for that announcement!
To give my readers a sample of what's to come, here is the opening to my newest book:
Sean stepped out onto the front porch. Fall was coming; you could always feel it in the air first. He inhaled deep, filling his lungs with the leaf-crisp air. He loved that smell. Decaying leaves he supposed it was; an earthy smell that he couldn’t get enough of. He hoped it wasn’t laced with mold; he could always smell mold in food products. Jill laughed at that because he would open a package of rotten chicken and think it smelled fine. But throw a little mold in there and he wouldn’t touch it. So salmonella ok, mold not ok. Of course he knew neither was good but he guessed his paranoia about mold had something to do with having read too much about it and how it can make you sick and if they are grown in the right conditions, can produce mycotoxins that are poisonous, the worst of which is aflatoxins that cause cancer. So yea, call him paranoid but he had done his research and wanted to steer clear of anything that had the slightest chance of having mold on it.
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It has been a long time coming...well, at least 7 months since I gave my 8th book to my publisher to edit. And now with the editing complete, the cover nearly ready, the book is almost on its way to the printer for a galley copy to, once again, review and edit a final time before we print up copies available for sale. Phew! And then, close on its heels comes book #9, which has been even a longer time coming. That one was written in 2019 during NaNoWriMo - National November Writing Month - and then put on the back burner. But I kept thinking about it and just last year pulled it out and did more editing to finalize it for my publisher. That one will be coming out later this month.
The goal is to get these two books ready so I can start promoting them both. My plan is to have private home book discussion groups where I talk about my books, my writing process, and everything else to do with writing. I understand that most people have a book that they want to write 'someday'. I'm going to convince them that 'someday' is now! We don't know what the future holds so why wait to write your novel, or memoir, or childrens, or non-fiction book.
If anyone reading this is interested in having a book discussion group or even becoming a member of my "street team" (more about this later - I'm just learning about it), please contact me at
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Althought it might seem like I wrote my next book, "Deep Lake House" in weeks since it has been only a few weeks since my last book "The Mart" came out, I was working on "Deep Lake House" while "The Mart" was going through final edits and reviews. So it took the better part of 2023 and the first two months of 2024 to complete it. I guess you could say I'm on a roll! Or, as my writing friend, Nancy, likes to say, I'm on fire! Which is appropriate for me since I am an Aries which is a fire sign!
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Finally, my long awaited 7th Novel, "The Mart" is now available for purchase!
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We just received two copies of "The Mart" that Jim and I will completely look through and make whatever last minute changes need to be made. Although tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I know Jim and I will be spending most of the weekend reading through "The Mart" ONE FINAL TIME!!! It is always suprising to me the little mistakes or edits that can be missed, no matter how many times we read through the book. And I don't even remember how many times I've read through the book, making edits along the way each and every time.