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My Author’s Marketing Journey

I’ve decided to start blogging about my marketing and promotion plan as an independent author in the hopes that other writers, debarking on the path to publishing a book, might benefit from my process, mistakes, and ideas. First of all, a little about myself. I am a college English professor who has published books before.Continue reading “My Author’s Marketing Journey”

Hard proof copy next

All edits are done, electronic proofs are in, and the cover is complete. Now, I’m just waiting for an actual hard copy in the mail from Atmosphere Press. It will be grand to just hold the thing in my hand! What do you think of this awesome cover by Ronaldo Alves?

An Inspiration

As I was working on Ivory Tower, so many relevant stories were happening in the news that made writing my novel feel like writing non-fiction: the multiple rape cases at Baylor, the prostitution ring in the basketball program at Louisville, the protection of a prized athlete and alleged sexual predator at my own institution. ButContinue reading “An Inspiration”

getting close

Proofs are proofread, edits are edited, layouts are laid out, and the cover is covered. It’s getting close to release time for my new novel, Ivory Tower, from Atmosphere Press. The culmination of 4 years of work, Ivory Tower, is finally coming to fruition. If you are a fan, you may have followed the progressContinue reading “getting close”

Ivory Tower, a novel

Ivory Tower is the new novel by Grant Matthew Jenkins in which intrepid film professor, Margolis Santos, rallies a ragtag band of women to take on a corrupt university football program that is paying sorority girls to sleep with start recruits.

A novel for the #MeToo era, Ivory Tower tackles the sexual assault scandals that have rocked big-time college football since Southern Methodist University received the dreaded ‘death-penalty’ in 1987 for violations of NCAA. Since then cases of sexual exploitation, assault, and corruption have plagued university athletics programs all over the country.

Read how Prof. Santos and her intrepid band of fed-up women take on billionaire boosters, a university president, and the culture of rape at Athens University in a desperate attempt to break up this illegal scheme to make football king again on campus.