J. D. Jahn turned to writing fiction after careers in teaching and communications and marketing. The Crone’s Tales is his first published work of fiction and harkens back to his days as a student and teacher of Shakespeare. He has nearly completed a second collection of stories, again repurposing for modern readers the techniques and conventions of classical fairy- and folk-tales. With his wife, he is also writing a murder mystery set in Brooklyn and a parodic, noir detective story that takes place at a fictional Florida university town.