Jeff began writing as a young teenager, and, predictably, all of it was bad. He started to write seriously while in college, but spent the next decade creating characters and universes and planning stories without seeing much of it to fruition. This wasted time is his biggest regret in life.
In the early 1990s, Jeff began a correspondence with noted pulp historian and novelist Will Murray, while he was writing both the DOC SAVAGE and THE DESTROYER series (THE DESTROYER #102 is actually dedicated to Jeff). Jeff currently consults on Will Murray’s DOC SAVAGE books (as evidenced by the acknowledgements pages in the novels of “The Wild Adventures of …” series), a privilege that he enjoys. Will Murray’s sage advice helped turn Jeff into a true author.
Producing few books over the next few years, Jeff’s writing finally attained professional grade, and, after being laid off from the auto industry in 2007, he was able to devote more time to writing. From 2008, he produced an average of three books a year, most of it fiction, and most of that pulp. Reading so much of the writing of Lester Dent, the first, most prolific and best of those using the DOC SAVAGE house name “Kenneth Robeson”, Jeff’s own natural style is similar to Dent’s. He “turns this up” when writing pulp, and “turns this down” when writing non-pulp fiction.
Jeff primarily writes fiction, and, combining his twin loves of superheroes and pulp, began THE GOLDEN AGE series in 2012. This resurrected, revamped and revitalized the largely forgotten characters of Ned Pines’ Standard, Better and Nedor publishing companies. These characters, drawn from superhero, pulp and mystic milieus, fill the “Auric Universe”, as Jeff calls it. In 2015, he started documenting his own Argentverse, filled with characters of his own creation. It is a nostalgic look back on the comic books he read as a young teenager.
Jeff’s webpage is jeffdeischer.blogspot.com, where he posts the first chapters of his novels, so that potential readers can peruse his work without having to spend several dollars on a trade paperback to find out if they like it or not.
The Westerntainment Library
Non-Fiction
Over the Rainbow: a User’s Guide to My Dangyang by Jeff Deischer
The Marvel Timeline Project, Part 1 by Jeff Deischer and Murray Ward
The Way They Were: the Histories of Some of Adventure Fiction’s Most Famous Heroes and Villains by Jeff Deischer
The Adventures of the Man of Bronze: a Definitive Chronology (3rd ed.) by Jeff Deischer
Superhero Fiction
The Overman Paradigm by Kim Williamson
The Golden Age, Volume II: Mystico by Jeff Deischer
The Golden Age, Volume III: Dark of the Moon by Jeff Deischer
The Golden Age, Volume IV by Jeff Deischer
The Golden Age, Volume X: Future Tense by Jeff Deischer
The Golden Age, Volume XI: Bad Moon Rising by Jeff Deischer
The Steel Ring by R. A. Jones
TheTwilight War by R. A. Jones
Argent by Jeff Deischer
Night of the Owl (Argent) by Jeff Deischer
The Superlatives (Argent) by Jeff Deischer
Strange Days (Argent) by Jeff Deischer
Modern Times (Argent) by Jeff Deischer
Mystery Men (Argent) by Jeff Deischer
Science Fiction
Brave New World: Divided We Planetfall by Lawrence V. Bridgeport
The Brotherhood of Sabours Book One: The Shadow of the Sund by Wes T. Salem
The Brotherhood of Sabours Book Two: The Reavers of Kargh by Wes T. Salem
The Brotherhood of Sabours Book Three: The Red Brotherhood by Wes T. Salem
The Heart of the Universe by Wes T. Salem
Beyond Worlds Collide by Jeff Deischer
War of Worlds Collide by Jeff Deischer
Pulp Fiction
Spook Trail by Jeff Deischer
The Winter Wizard by Jeff Deischer
The Little Book of Short Stories: 9 Weird Tales by Jeff Deischer
Red, as in Ruin (Nemesis Company #1) by Jeff Deischer
Other Fiction
Skull & Bones (Agent Keats #1) by John Francis
Chinese Puzzle (Agent Keats #2) by John Francis
High Hopes (Agent Keats #3) by John Francis