{"id":17,"date":"2016-01-03T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2016-01-03T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T18:16:14","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been writing since I was 15, starting with fan fiction from the <em>Dukes of Hazzard<\/em>, eventually graduating to <em>Star Trek, <\/em>and<em> Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> before creating my own character, Casey Donovan. \u00a0Casey is an immortal who found himself in many of the American\u00a0wars, from the Revolution to Vietnam. While\u00a0researching for him,\u00a0I gained a love for war and other conflicts, mostly how they\u00a0effected the general population and the grunt soldiers at the front.<\/p>\n<p>I later fell into reading and writing fantasy, writing urban fantasy before it was called that. I now consider myself an urban fantasy author with a military bent. Under my own name, I will try my hand at paranormal romance and other genres as well.<\/p>\n<p>My pseudonym is <strong>Jake Logan<\/strong>. Jake writes gay male romance and erotica, as well as gay urban fantasy (with a military bent also), and gay mysteries. Yes, he&#8217;s gay. I have the highest regard for gay men and women, and try to write gay stories that are concentrating on the <em>story<\/em>, not the sexual orientation. The main characters in these stories happen to be gay, but it&#8217;s not the entirety\u00a0of their existence.<\/p>\n<p>I live in Rhode Island with an autistic son and three cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been writing since I was 15, starting with fan fiction from the Dukes of Hazzard, eventually graduating to Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation before creating my own character, Casey Donovan. \u00a0Casey is an immortal who found himself in many of the American\u00a0wars, from the Revolution&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?page_id=17\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}