Jim Traylor lives in Chandler, Arizona with his jewelry designer wife Louise and his Pomeranian therapy pup T-La. In addition to writing, jim enjoys music, RV Travel, Guitar and visiting children's hospitals and elder-care homes with T-La. The Monkey Soldiers was his first novel, followed by Regena Guitar and Other Short Stories, and A Poets Passion. and Siam Song is a mystery romance novel. His latest novel is The Spud Gristwall, a Southern story He is a Vietnam era Army Veteran with nine years’ service. A more detailed Biography and information on works in progress may be seen at www.jimtraylorsbooks.com If you wish to contact Jim, please send your email to jim@trayloronline.com
Smashwords Interview
What do you read for pleasure?
Novels. No particular genre... just whatever catches my eye or I have heard good things about
What is your e-reading device of choice?
I do my e-reading on my laptop. That way I have the book available for reference while I am writing my own works.
When one man’s salvation Is another man’s damnation and his war heroes Are another man’s criminals, is it love or hate that is right or wrong? And who are the good guys and who are the bad? Southern storytelling at its very best, In the Shadow of the Big Yellow Mama - The Spud Gristwall Story
Soldiers call them Dear John Letters. When Sergeant Matt Mathews received his, he learned his unfaithful wife had taken their daughter and gone into hiding. He reacted by getting pity-me drunk. Bad Idea.
Mugged in a bar parking lot and beaten senseless, he awakens in the hospital with a bandaged head and a scrambled brain that no longer understands his beloved music. But broken bones and int
A Poets Passion: An in-depth versification of one man’s life. It is a compilation of forty years of life events in rhyme and recollection. The emotion of this poet’s passion smoothly assimilates into the mind and heart of the reader. A Poet’s Passion: a wonderful and fulfilling read for the true poetry lover.
Regina Guitar and other Short Stories is a compilation of incarnate capsules: Flavored doses, seasoned with the human condition, and served up on the theatrical masks of tragedy and comedy. Here you will find it all,from heartrending drama to goofy buffoonery. The perfect selection for those who love to read but have little time to do it.
The Monkey Soldiers: This story brings together a menagerie of humans and primates who find themselves in a world of heroic action, comic absurdity, tearful sorrow and boorish behavior. Wartime love stories and erotic, tropical rhondavous counterbalance the hedonism and decadence served up by the biggest and hottest R&R bar in Bangkok Thailand: The FTA Club.