by Jeffrey
on May 17, 2013
in Americana, Ice Cream Headache, Illinois Valley
In Ice Cream Headache, Billy stops in at the Supreme Dairy Bar for a milkshake. While the owner of the dairy bar, Ray, is making the milkshake, Ray thinks back to when he was a child and went to the soda fountain at Adkins’ Drug Store with his father and sister for malts and ice [...]
by Jeffrey
on May 16, 2013
in Americana, Illinois Valley, Movies
Summer is just around the corner and Hollywood over over the years has released some memorable movies. Perhaps you have seen some of these films before; perhaps you haven’t. Many there are some on this list that you don’t agree with you; others that you think should be on this list. (Although Star Wars opened [...]
by Jeffrey
on May 11, 2013
in Ice Cream Headache, Illinois Valley, Novels, Oglesby
Although there might be some truth to the claim that you can’t go home again, I most certainly did when I wrote Ice Cream Headache. And it’s only fitting, given the number of years that I have lived overseas, that I “return” home a lot in my stories, especially when I am waxing nostalgic about [...]
by Jeffrey
on May 7, 2013
in Ice Cream Headache, Illinois Valley
There are book reviews and then there are book reviews! This latest one left at Amazon for Ice Cream Headache, definitely rocks! Jeffrey Miller is an instinctive navigator of the human heart. His ability to draw universal thoughts and emotions from commonplace characters in simple settings is reminiscent of Stephen King in Hearts in Atlantis. [...]
by Jeffrey
on April 23, 2013
in Americana, Ice Cream Headache, Illinois Valley, Oglesby
You know, I had such a wonderful time writing Ice Cream Headache that I thought I would head on back to the Oglesby in the 1960s and see what else was back there to write about. My book in progress was originally a flash fiction piece I wrote back in 2010 while I was writing [...]
by Jeffrey
on April 21, 2013
in 1960s, Americana, Illinois Valley
It started with Invaders from Mars and Other Tales of Youthful Angst, followed by Ice Cream Headache, When a Hard Rain Falls (due out later this year) and now for my latest book in progress, Going Long, I am traveling once again back in time, back to the 1960s and back to Oglesby and the [...]
by Jeffrey
on March 29, 2013
in Ice Cream Headache, Illinois Valley
Why did you write Ice Cream Headache? That’s what someone asked me today who bought my book. Because I wanted to go back home, back home to the memories which I have nurtured and cherished all these years. Memories like an old friend you’ve not seen for a long time but remember exactly everything the [...]
by Jeffrey
on March 18, 2013
in Ice Cream Headache, Illinois Valley
In the split second that it took for him to decide to go after the man running down the alley, the wheels of fate turned against the both of them. He remembered yelling for the man to stop; the next thing he knew, he was kneeling down over the man trying to stop the bleeding. [...]
by Jeffrey
on March 16, 2013
in Ice Cream Headache, Illinois Valley, Oglesby
I only mentioned it briefly in Ice Cream Headache, but Lou’s Super Market has a special place in the novella. I understand that Oglesby has been without a supermarket for fifteen years and that it will soon have a new one, a County Market. That’s great for Oglesby but for all of us who grew [...]
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