Jay Giess


Biography

Jay Giess lives with his wife and two sons in Rochester, New York. Over the past twenty years, he has had the pleasure to work in cubicles in Boston, Washington, San Francisco, and Rochester.

Where to buy in print


Books

Locked    by Jay Giess
Price: $2.99 USD. 38760 words. Published on May 22, 2013. Fiction.

A hidden tunnel. A mysterious wooden chest filled with gold bars. Eleven-year-old Benny Dogsbody and his friends must unlock the secrets that lie beneath the Dogsbody Hardware Store or else Benny’s father will spend the rest of his life in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
The Accidental Pirate    by Jay Giess
Price: $2.99 USD. 70050 words. Published on January 15, 2013. Fiction.

Sixteen-year-old Tom Waters doesn’t want to be a pirate. But after meeting an attractive girl on a pirate-themed cruise ship and agreeing to hold on to an ancient coin for her, he finds himself mysteriously transported to a sloop in the middle of the Caribbean…in 1692. While Tom tries to get back to the twenty-first century, he has to learn how to be a pirate or else he might not last a week.
Death by Cubicle    by Jay Giess
Price: $2.99 USD. 76240 words. Published on September 22, 2012. Fiction.

Jay Giess comically portrays the vagaries of cubicle life, with its hovering quorums, folders filled with birthday cards, and concerns over a few square inches of work space, while deftly showing how the men and women in an office can come together as a family—or not—in response to a violent death.

Jay Giess’s tag cloud

accidental    adventure    boys    caribbean    cube    cubicle    death    locked    murder    mystery    northchester    obeah    office    pirate    pirate adventure    port royal    prattsburgh    rochester    satire    sigma    tunnel    young adult