Okay! So I lied.

Written By Jerrimiah Stonecastle

On Friday, I made a vow (on my Facebook page) that I, Jerrimiah Stonecastle, was going to buckle down and do two 4,000 word count days on Saturday and Sunday...

NOT!

Do I feel guilty about not getting any further on Saturday than opening up my manuscript, staring at it for about two minutes, and then closing it to go wash my car? Not really. Because I know from experience that if the feeling for "me" to write is not there, I can't force it to show up. So I didn't. I went about my merry way of visiting Walmart to buy corona virus panic supplies that were all out. After that I decided to go and check out some new eyeglass frames. (I guess I wanted to look cool with new specs while staring at a blank screen.)

The good news is that on Sunday, after I had breakfast and 3 cups of coffee, the desire to write returned. It was no where near 4,000 words, however they were 683 words of high value to the ending of the chapter 7 and the introduction of chapter 8.

So once again, it's not the quantity that matters; it's the quality.

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Born and raised in the slums of New York, he was raised by a single mom who earned her Master's in Early Childhood Development while working as a teacher's aide. She sent young Jerrimiah to the prestigious Power Memorial Academy for Boys, the Alma mater of NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He worked part-time after school to help his mom pay for his tuition.

He declined a full scholarship from Concordia University and joined the US Army and became a combat medic. He returned to New York upon his discharge where he was hired by the NYC Chief Medical Examiner’s Office as a medical stenographer.

In 1982 he joined the New York City Police Department. In 1983 he was recruited by the Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) as an undercover officer in their narcotics division. He finished out his career as a detective assigned to the Bronx Homicide Task Force.

When he retired in 2002, he relocated to Florida to pursue his passion for writing. After hundreds of rejection letters and reading Amanda Hocking's story, he decided to self-publish his own works. In 2016 he formed Stonecastle Publications LLC and has published 30 books so far. He has an additional 400 fiction and nonfiction novels in draft form in his company's literary vault.

On October 31, 2018, He launched his first horror novel "FRANKENSTINA" and released the sequel "FRANKENSTINA REBORN" on Halloween 2019. There are two more books in the horology.

On March 7, 2023, he received the Literary Titan Book Award for the apocalyptic thriller "A Flash of Light".

Stonecastle Publications LLC

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https://jerrimiahstonecastle.org/
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