Dogface — DogStar, Book 1 Really (Almost) True Story — Based on a True Story, Book 1
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Joey Jones (aka Jodi Jones and Kai Jones) has been a print and radio journalist, advertising copywriter, editor, print and radio commentator, and has ghostwritten everything from speeches to love letters. She is a past Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting semifinalist, Fade In: Screenwriting Awards quarterfinalist, and Screencraft Cinematic Books competition semifinalist. She’s been a Field Producer for radio networks (ask her about the BBC and the bell), and her on-air performance as “The Dying Fish” can be heard in the Water Education Foundation commercial series. Her artwork is available in the IdeaJones shop on Redbubble, or in fine art exhibits.
Mark Jones produces radio shows (like Connections on CapRadio’s Music Station). He’s heard on CapRadio’s four news stations, and sometimes – during fund drives – on the Music Station. He also writes radio ads and stories, and has sung, acted and directed audio books, local theater, and TV.
We’re excited about finally (finally!) pursuing our dream to share our stories with you in our novels. Whether it’s the heartfelt, humorous world of the Based On A True Story series or the weirdly warm but scary realm of the Werre World books, we hope you enjoy meeting our smart, funny, challenged, challenging characters.
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East-West Crazy is about growing up in the ’60s in a dysfunctional family. Been there, done that? Not with this family, you haven’t.
East-West Crazy(excerpt from) A novel by Joey and Mark Jones
Mom didn’t object to the Monkees, who were more clean-cut than the Beatles. The Beatles had seemed like such nice “lads,” but now were putting out the kind of records that made grownups nervous. My big sister Daisy listened to songs like “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” sitting on her sofa in her bare feet. Nobody could make her stop, because she had her own apartment, which she called a “pad.” I referred to it as the “Daisypad,” wishing my sister’s name were Lilly, which would make the joke better. Hey, it would have been a great joke coming from an eight-year-old.
Everybody knew “Lucy in the Sky” was about drugs. I had only a vague notion what that meant, gleaned from listening to what adults said when they thought kids weren’t listening, and TV news.
Hippies were druggies who did drugs and were dirty and didn’t work. They shouted a lot while waving poorly-lettered signs, like the girl on the news last night with the sign that read “Fascist Imperialists out of ‘Nam Now!” She’d run out of room, so “imperia” looked all right, but “lists” ran down the side of her sign, turning her message into “Fascist Imperia Out Ofli ‘Nam Now!ts.” She was screeching red-faced at a policeman who shifted his weight back and forth as though his feet hurt. An equally red-faced man in a suit, his tie flapping, was shouting at the “nam nowts” girl. I wasn’t sure if he was on drugs, too, but it seemed like a good bet.
