John J. Jessop

I'm donating all my after-tax profits from PLEASURIA to two children's charities, Holly's House https://www.hollyshouse.org and Darkness to Light https://www.d2l.org in honor of my late sister.

Get PLEASURIA at http://bit.ly/pleasuria. I promise you some laughs, and you'll also be doing a good thing by helping me support these two worthy charities. Author site https://johnjjessop.com.

I'm on Draft 3 of the sequel to PLEASURIA. It's called, for now, Dr. Jason Longfellow and the Traveling Killer, although the publisher may have other ideas:) In this one, Dr./Detective Longfellow takes his family on a trip across country, and it looks like someone's out to get the amateur sleuth...someone besides his wife for a change:)

PLEASURIA: Take as Directed is the first in a book series that I am calling a subgenre of murder mystery, the BIOTECH MURDER MYSTERY. In this series, Dr./Detective Jason Longfellow, FDA drug reviewer and amateur sleuth, takes cases in which medical biotech development has gone wrong, in a seriously funny way. I spent 30+ years working in medical biotech development, serious and often stressful work, and now I'm going to have some fun. Come along for the ride!

I love writing. I am working on the second draft of the sequel to my new book, PLEASURIA, and having a blast. I also love to read, and just started reading one of Carl Hiaasen's books, Razor Girl. He writes humorous books about various social issues in Florida.

I am giving all of my after-tax profits from my new book PLEASURIA: Take as Directed (Koehler Books, November, 2018) to two children's charities, Holly's House and Darkness to Light, in honor of my younger sister who passed away when she was only 45. My sister loved to laugh, and she would have liked the book.

I am almost finished with the first draft of the sequel to PLEASURIA. I love writing comedy, and combining it with a murder mystery is a blast. It's kind of like writing two books. First I need a compelling murder mystery, and then I need to go through many drafts to add lots of additional comedy. Writing brings me lots of pure joy. I can't get enough of it.

I'm 17 chapters into the sequel to PLEASURIA. It's called 'Detective Jason Longfellow and the Traveling Killer', and the backdrop is based on a wonderful 30-day, 7600 mile trip that I took with my youngest daughter three years ago. We traveled from Virginia across the US on the southern route, up the California coast to Oregon and back home by the northern route. I learned a lot about our beautiful country, took thousands of pictures, made wonderful memories with my daughter and got the idea for this sequel to PLEASURIA. What a blessing!

I started my writing career with two dark murder mysteries, GUARDIAN ANGEL: UNFORGIVEN and GUARDIAN ANGEL: INDOCTRINATION, including the evilest of villains, a serial killer and a cult leader. After spending two years with these evil characters, I was kind of depressed, so I decided to try my hand at comedy, which is how PLEASURIA: TAKE AS DIRECTED came about. With this medical comedy murder mystery I wanted to create something fun to read with laugh-out-loud comedy, requiring absolutely no serious thought on the part of the reader. There is some stuff about a midlife crisis, but even that's not meant to be taken seriously. Just read, laugh and enjoy.

The book launch party for PLEASURIA: Take As Directed (Koehler Books) was a success. Thank you all for coming. Now available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, other bookstores. Please read and leave review http://bit.ly/pleasuria . My after-tax profits go to two charities for abused children. PLEASURIA: Take as Directed