Jeffrey Gentile

I've been imagining stories and creating characters since I was a seven-years old. Mom marveled when I sat beside my baby sister's playpen and made up fairy tales for her. I remember clearly my mother asking, "Where did you hear that story, Jeffrey?" and I told her than I made it up. I wrote my first (dreadful) novel when I was 17, and I've been writing ever since. People ask where the ideas come from, and I have no idea. A first line, a character, or a situation will pop into my head. Next thing I know, I'm writing a story.

For the past 20 years, I’ve made my living as a professional writer in various forms and formats writing everything from undercover guest reports for a luxury hotel chain to creating advertising copy for a global real estate firm and writing magazine articles for an insurance company. I am also the author of the novels Love and Bullets and Time Travel for Beginners. My last book, published by Eckhartz Press in Chicago, was Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir. It was named one of the best independent nonfiction books of the year by the Chicago Writer’s Association in 2021.