author
john wiley
I spend most of my time farming and writing fiction.
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I was an English major once, and have always been a storyteller who believes the truth should be polished up a little and embellished, for its own sake as well as to benefit the audience.
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My wife Marie and I live in central Ohio, on a one hundred acre farm that is somewhat isolated but happens to be at the center of the universe. We have, in addition to cattle, Ridgebacks and Tennessee Walkers and indoor/outdoor cats, snapping turtles in the pond, turkey buzzards circling overhead, groundhogs tunnellng, coyotes calling to each other in the night.
2022
DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS. A RARE BOOK IS STOLEN from wealthy Austin mayoral candidate Big Frank Miller, and Eddy Johnson--a local small-time book dealer--is hired to get it back. Eddy's glad to have the work. He's flat broke and desperately needs the money. But just as he thinks his luck is changing, he gets swept up in a perfect storm of corrupt politicians, dirty cops, and rival book wholesalers. Everyone thinks Eddy is expendable. He's doing what he can to prove them wrong.
2018
SOMEONE LETS FARMER'S COWS OUT. Fueled by idealism and curiosity, the herd follows a bike path into the big city, chasing a dream of a new way of life. The good-natured cattle make lots of friends, but life in town is complicated. They encounter religion, local politics, and manicured lawns. Meanwhile, Farmer is frantically searching for the wayward cows, racing to save them from the perils of celebrity and the urban machine before it's too late.
what folks are saying
eddy Johnson, book dealer
"A clever and entertaining hard-boiled detective spoof... refreshing and fun."
-Lone Star Literary Life
an inconvenient herd
"A fun, goofy book... I laughed out loud many times... What a charming book... This book made me ridiculously happy. I truly adore it... Just thinking about this book makes me smile... Delightful!... Hilarious... This book will lift you up... Worth reading more than once... Witty political satire..."
-A bouquet of positive comments from
Goodreads and Amazon.com reviews
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