Gerald Everett Jones is a freelance writer who lives in Santa Monica, California. His novels include Bonfire of the Vanderbilts, Choke Hold, Mr. Ballpoint, Christmas Karma, and The Misadventures of Rollo Hemphill (series). He is the host of the GetPublished! Radio show getpublishedradio.com.
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Narrated by Aundrea Mitchell. Old stuff comes knocking during the holidays. An homage to Anne Tyler.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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The oh-so-droll Michael Gilboe narrates. In 1945, Milton Reynolds introduced the ballpoint to the United States and triggered the biggest single-day shopping riot in history at Gimbels in Manhattan. The Reynolds International Pen Company made $5 million in eight weeks during the first non-wartime Christmas season. Thereafter, increasing competition…
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Rebecca Roberts narrates Gerald Everett Jones's novel about an art scandal in 1892 Paris.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Stuart Appleton narrates Gerald Everett Jones's humorous novel My Inflatable Friend about a young man who lusts too much and fails by falling upward.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald reads the Prologue and part of Chapter 1 from his historical novel Bonfire of the Vanderbilts at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena at an event sponsored by the Independent Writers of Southern California.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald reads from Chapter 21 of Bonfire of the Vanderbilts.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's review of The Art Thief by Noah Charney. (KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles reviews are on summer hiatus.)Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Reprise of Gerald's radio book review of The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's radio book review of The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley. Airs on The Mark Isler Show, Saturday, July 18, 2015 on KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of The Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind by Anne Roiphe. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, Saturday, June 27, 2015.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies by Jeanine Basinger. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, June 20, 2015.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of Adultery by Paulo Coelho, aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM, Saturday, June 13, 2015.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth. Aired Saturday, June 6, 2015 on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM, Los Angeles.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of The Classic BMW 5-Series M Car by Robert P. Hall. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, May 23, 2015.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, May 16, 2015.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, May 10, 2015.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Here's my book review of Prime Rib & Boxcars: Whatever Happened to Victoria Station? by Tom Blake. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, May 2, 2015, 9:40 pm PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Stories are more powerful after they are forgotten. Gerald revisits his book review of his most popular podcast so far - My Voice Will Go with You by Sidney Rosen, about the healing storytelling of psychiatrist Milton Erickson, pioneer of neurolinguistic programming. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, April 11, 2015 at…
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Gerald reviews three stories that have musicianship as their theme: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth, A Late Quartet (movie), and The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 9:40 pm PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Radio book review of literary fiction novel Invisible by Paul Auster. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 9:40 PM PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 9:40 pm.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's radio book review of The Belief in Angels by J. Dylan Yates. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM, Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 9:40 pm PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson, aired Saturday, February 28, 2015 on The Mark Isler Show, 870 AM Los Angeles, at 9:40pm PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's radio book review of Funny Girl by British novelist Nick Hornby, aired Saturday, February 21, 2015, on The Mark Isler Show, 870 AM Los Angeles, 9:40pm PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler, aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, February 14, 2015, 9:40 pm PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of A Delicate Truth by John Le Carre, aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, February 7, 2015, 9:50pm PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald reviews Abandoned in Hell: The Fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate by William Albracht and Marvin J. Wolf. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, January 31, 2015, 9:50 PM PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of "The Map and the Territory" by contemporary French novelist Michel Houellebecq. Aired on The Mark Isler Show KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles Saturday January 24, 2015 9:35 PM PT.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of "An Object of Beauty" by Steve Martin, aired on Saturday, January 17, 2015 on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, 9:30 PM Pacific.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of The Long Lavender Look (a Travis McGee thriller) by John D. MacDonald. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, January 10, 2015, 9:30 pm.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald reviews "A Good Year" by Peter Mayle, aired on The Mark Isler Show, 870 AM Los Angeles.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald announces his picks for highly recommended books in different categories. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, December 20, 2014.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald reviews humorous novel The Mackerel Plaza by Peter De Vries about a preacher who can't remarry. Aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, December 13, 2014.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's radio book review of the literary novel "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese, first aired on KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, December 6, 2014.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's review of "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt aired Saturday, November 29, 2014, on KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of "The Beginner's Goodbye" by Anne Tyler, aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, November 22, 2014, 9:30 PM PT. Gerald's new novel "Christmas Karma" was written for her fans.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's snapshot book review of "President Me: The America That's in My Head" aired on The Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, November 11, 2014, 9:54 PM PT. Good multipurpose bathroom reader.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of "Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America." Matt Taibbi is a ferocious investigative reporter who dug to the bottom of the stinking economic mess. You'll be surprised what he found.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald Everett Jones reads from his new book "Christmas Karma," on oddball parable narrated by an angel who has a weird sense of humor. (Chapter 1 excerpt) The book is available on Amazon and B&N.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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On his weekly snapshot book review, Gerald Everett Jones comments on "The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm America at War" by A. J. Baime.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's review of "Elizabeth the First Wife" by Lian Dolan, first aired on the Mark Isler Show, KRLA 870 AM Los Angeles, Saturday, October 25, 2014.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's one-minute book review on KRLA 870 AM of "The Woody" by Peter Lefcourt, a boychik-lit political satire about a senator who gets caught with his pants down.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's one-minute book review on KRLA 870 AM of "My Voice Will Go with You" by Sidney Rosen, about psychiatrist Milton Erickson and his powerful technique of using storytelling to achieve emotional healing and mental health.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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In episode six of his Boychik Lit book reviews on KRLA, Gerald covers "Shakespeare" by Bill Bryson and comments on how the Bard made up new words as he went along.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald's book review of "Right Ho, Jeeves" by P. G. Wodehouse, aired Saturday, September 27, 2014 on KRLA 870 AM radio Los Angeles.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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In episode four of his Boychik Lit book reviews on KRLA, Gerald covers "Sweet Tooth" by British author Ian McEwan. Like all good spy stories, it's about relationships and betrayals.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Gerald reviews "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes on his weekly Boychik Lit segment on KRLA 870 AM Los AngelesVon Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Second segment of Boychik Lit book reviews. "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Aired on KRLA 870 AM on August 23, 2014.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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First in a series of one-minute Boychik Lit book reviews aired on KRLA 870 AM radio in Los Angeles. Gerald defines "boychik lit" and recommends the scandalous and funny "Forever Panting" by Peter De Vries.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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Author Gerald Everett Jones reads the first chapter of Mr. Ballpoint, humorous fiction about the Pen Wars of 1945.Von Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
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