{"id":32559,"date":"2020-09-10T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookfest.com\/?p=32559"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:03:55","slug":"jeff-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookfest.com\/jeff-sweat\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Sweat"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"32559\" class=\"elementor elementor-32559\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5cd2af9a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5cd2af9a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3564c3d9\" data-id=\"3564c3d9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b5381e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6b5381e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Jeff\u2019s life has been centered around the story\u2014first as a journalist, then as a social media pioneer, and then as a public relations expert working with some of the top advertising agencies in the country. He uses his reporter\u2019s training in every page of Mayfly and Scorpion, always coming back to the question: \u201cWhat if\u2026?\u201d He grew up in Idaho as the middle of eight children\u2014seven boys and one girl\u2014and attended Columbia University in New York.\u00a0<\/p><p>Jeff lives in a big blue house beneath the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles with his wife Sunny and their three kids, two cats, two racing greyhounds, and a blue-tongued skink. He likes karaoke, motorcycles, and carpentry. He was once shot in the head with a nail gun, which was not a big of a deal as it sounds. But it still hurt like crazy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div data-dce-background-color=\"#F26135\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-399ea39 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"399ea39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffsweatbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Visit Jeff's Website<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff\u2019s life has been centered around the story\u2014first as a journalist, then as a social media pioneer, and then as a public relations expert working with some of the top advertising agencies in the country. 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