Jaron Summers

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Why you want to know, I don't know.

Went to BYU for BA in Journalism. UCLA for an MFA in TV writing.

Written dozens of novels, TV & screenplays, radio, humor & bittersweet columns, articles and reviews.

I was raised in Coronation, Alberta, Canada. Lived in LA most of my adult life.

I spent two years as an LDS Mormon Missionary in New Zealand. I wrote a novel about it.

It's called Elder Wonder Comes of Age. Is it about me? Sure, everything I write is a little bit about me.

I married Kate Dahlberg twenty-six years ago.

Here is the greatest thing I have ever done. Thirty-five years ago I heard a little girl fall into a swimming pool and pulled her out and she lived and was okay.

Here is the second greatest thing I have ever done: stayed out of jail.

Here is the third greatest thing I ever did. I looked after my mother until she was 96 years old and died.

Here is some other stuff I did—with a friend wrote a novel in a couple of days as a PR college stunt in 1967. A lot of people later copied us. I think we were the first. Also I invented the fridge magnet. Also, I was the first person 1. to sell a novel on the internet. I probably was the first person to teach writing on the internet about twenty-five years ago.

Have I done anything great with my life? No. Have I done anything bad? Hmm, I guess.

But the bottom line is—if everyone were like me any child could walk down any street on the planet and be safe.

See, I'm a lot like you.

A funny column I wrote is The Whooping Moose.

By the way if you want to read the first chapter of a steamy (read: sexy) thriller I wrote, have a look at Damaged Goods. (Be warned! The first chapter might hook you and then you might decide to buy the book for five bucks. I hope so.)

Jaron Summers

Part of the time my wife and I live in Alberta :

And the rest of the time in California: