“I’ve done almost every kind of menial job imaginable that was legal. In my fifties, I decided to go to college. I attended Sam Houston State University in East Texas and got my diploma from Angelo State University in West Texas. With a degree in journalism and history, I sallied forth into the publishing world only to find that talent without persistence is worthless. Most of my inspiration comes from my hometown, considered one of the wildest of the Wild West Texas towns in the late 1800s. News of shootouts between outlaws and vigilante groups reached newspapers as far away as St. Louis. listening to those stories had a profound influence on me. It is my goal to use them to entertain readers as much as they enthralled me.” Easy Jackson aka V.J. Rose