Gerald Everett Jones is a freelance writer who lives in Santa Monica, California. Preacher Raises the Dead is his twelfth novel. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild, Women’s National Book Association, and Film Independent (FIND), as well as a board member of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC). He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird, Being There).

He is the host of the GetPublished! Radio Show, and his book reviews are published on the Web by Splash Magazines Worldwide.