Jericho Road (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781507779606)

Sam Morton haswritten professionally for 20 years, publishing articles in a variety of consumer publications, most notably USAir and WebMD magazines. He has won a number of awards, including the Silver Moon magazine horror fiction contest and honorable mention in the Writer's Digest 76th Annual Writing Competition features category. He has published pieces in peer-reviewed online journals such as The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Like the Dew, and Writers Who Kill. Sam has published three previous novels through Echelon Press, a regional publisher. Echelon issued my novel Disavowed, a police thriller in 2006, Betrayed in 2010 and Ten Weeks Til... in 2012. He is co-author of six anthologies, including, State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love (University of South Carolina Press, 2013), a best-selling compendium for USC Press. He has been an invited speaker at the South Carolina Book Festival, RoundCon 2011 and a Literary Panel with Pat Conroy, sponsored by the University of South Carolina Hollings Library. His past occupations include a 12 year-stint as a robbery/ homicide detective, a ten-year career as a professional wrestler, and one long week as the blade changer on the potato cutting machine at the Frito Lay plant in Charlotte, NC.