Jory Sherman, who has been a full-time writer for over fifty years, began his writing career as a poet in San Francisco. He has published widely in such journals as: Epos, Quicksilver, Renaissance, The New York Herald Tribune, Laugh, Literary, Signet, The Black Cat Review, The Ozarks Mountaineer, Flame, The Galley Sail Review, and many other publications and anthologies. He recently completed writing THE BARON HONOR, for Forge Books and BLOOD RIVER for Berkley. Sherman has had four books of poetry published, all of which went through multiple printings. A Professor of Literature (University of Florida) Warren French, noted: "Jory Sherman has a strange and powerful knowledge of language and an almost perfect ear." Jory began writing at age 8, when he was grief-stricken over the death of his puppy, Doopers. He read James Joyce's Ulysses at the age of 10 and fell in love with language and mythology.

Sherman has published more than 1000 articles and 500 short stories. Recently, his stories have appeared in Tales of the American West, the WWA Spur Winners Anthology, published by NAL, Richard S. Wheeler, Editor, (COMES THE HUNTER), the WWA Short Story Anthology, American West. Loren D. Estleman, Editor, published by Forge Books. (THE SNOWS OF AUGUST). Read the West, an electronic magazine, has published an original short story, THE FILLY, in its April, 1999 ezine, and Read West has published his original story, SHADOWS AT SUNSET, Steve Law, Editor, in the Read West ezine in the February, 2000 issue. He recently had a story accepted for the Ozarks Mystery Anthology (AVENGING ANGEL), to be published by Skyward, Edited by Ellen Gray Massey.


Jory's venture into ebooks is represented by THE HILLS OF HOME, a collection of pieces on the Ozarks published electronically by Hard Shell Word Factory in August, 2000, and CHILL #1: SATAN’S SEED, published in October, 2000 by HSWF, CHILL #2: THE SEPULCHRE, published in January, 2004, and, VISIONS OF A LOST GIRL, published in August, 2001. These are in both ebook and POD editions.

Sherman has published more than 300 books since 1965, with Doubleday, Zebra, Avon, Berkley, Walker & Co., Tor, Forge, Bantam, Major Books, Pinnacle, The First Ozark Press, White Oak Press, and others. He has created and packaged series for Avon, Harlequin Gold Eagle, Pinnacle, Paperjacks, Zebra, Bantam, and others.

Jory Sherman lives in Pittsburg, Texas on Lake Bob Sandlin.

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