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J.R. Jackson is a former U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer. During his career, he has been deployed all over the world working with branches of the U.S. military and military units from foreign countries.


He is currently a Military Technical Advisor for several authors and an outdoor survival and disaster mitigation educator.

The Up From the Depths series is his first venture into fictional writing.

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The Months of Madness 2021 Ebook Promotion

That’s right boys and girls, the incredible, awesome, spine-tingling, totally scintillating Month of Madness returns for 2021.

A little history – the promotion is the brainchild of the total, batshit crazy author J.R. Jackson. (He’s insane, so the promotion must be as well, right?)

In the past, the promotion focused on authors who wrote in the apocalyptic genre.

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