Scott Archer Jones

UPDATE -- And Throw Away The Skins won a FAPA Silver Presidents Award in early August. Also on August 17th 2019, And Throw Way The Skins was a finalist and winner at the Denver Field House for the Evvy Award. Colorado Independent Publishers Association. Scott was shortlisted for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Grand prize for his book a rising tide of people swept away. Scott's book Jupiter was a finalist in two Eric Hoffer Award Categories, 2017. US Review of Books review posted this for the Legacy Fiction Category: http://www.theusreview.com/USRhoffer.html#lfic First Runner-Up Jupiter and Gilgamesh: A Novel of Sumeria and Texas, Scott Archer Jones, Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) Publishing - The root idea of this book, that a Texas businessman-cum-hermit and a 5,000 year old Sumerian king could be in mutually beneficial conversation with each other, might be absurd to some, but as in any fanciful tale, it all comes down to the author's skill in enabling the reader to suspend disbelief and enter into the strange journey being projected. Archer is skilled to an exceptional degree. His writing is terse; he respects the reader's ability to read between the lines and form the picturesque: "As he sat there, the sky turned black and rolled past the tower, carrying winter back into the plains." There is an implied spirituality to the story that turns the bleakness of a deterministic world into one of unexpected possibility. Matt Devon's life seemed locked down upon a tragedy until he 'met' Gilgamesh, and it spun upon its axis to one of unforseen possibility. Beyond the simple pleasure of a tale told well, the playfulness and joy beneath the surface of this unlikely yarn is the author's gift to the reader. Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on his sixth novel and first novella in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He's worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. He was on the masthead of the Prague Revue, and his novel Jupiter and Gilgamesh, a Novel of Sumeria and Texas (2014) and his novel The Big Wheel (2015) have been released by Southern Yellow Pines Publishing. Fomite Press released a rising tide of people swept away in 2016 and it was a finalist for the Montaigne Medal in 2019 He's been a finalist in the New Mexico Arizona Book Awards, the Faulkner-Wisdom Book Awards, and has won Gold and Silver FAPA President Awards for 3 books. He's published here and there (39 magazines and counting) but received enough rejection to achieve humility. Scott cuts all his own firewood, lives a mile from his nearest neighbor and writes grant applications for the community. He was the Treasurer of Shuter Library of Angel Fire, a private 501.C3. The Library desperately needs your money to keep the doors open. https://www.facebook.com/ScottArcherJones www.scottarcherjones.com www.shuterlibrary.net twitter @ScottAJones1