I can’t get books like Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Confederacy of Dunces, and most stuff by Ray Bradbury out of my mind, but it was reading Stephen King as a child that got me thinking about becoming an author. Grandpa and Louis L’Amour turned me into a lifelong bookworm. He claimed to have all the Louis L’Amour books (nobody has all the Louis L’Amour books), but really meant he had all the ones sold on the rack at the local pharmacy. My grandfather loaned me his Louis L’Amour books when I was in grade school. Quick lightning round! Tell us the first book you ever remember reading, the one that made you want to become an author, and one that you can’t stop thinking about! Paul with my wife, Cindy, an irate Pomeranian named Lucy, and a happy galoot of a beagle named Milo. I was a ski bum in my youth but still managed to receive a degree in Journalism from the University of Minnesota (and remain a diehard Gopher football fan). Though born in Long Beach, California, I’m really a Minnesotan as my parents moved back to the glacier when I was two. Hi, Jeffrey! Tell our readers a bit about yourself! Burton about his latest novel, The Keepers, which is the next installment of the Mace Reid K9 series, featuring golden retriever cadaver dog Vira and her handler, Mason Reid.
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