Jeff StookeyDec 27
Only 5 days left for special discounts on eBooks of #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 novel trilogy - a gay love story set in the Prohibition era Jazz Age, when a young Dr. Carl Holman falls for an ambitious young jazz piano player named Jimmy Harper.
Smashwords eBook Sale runs through 12/31/2025.
Acquaintance, Bk 1, is FREE!
Chicago Blues, Bk 2, sells for $1.99
and
Dangerous Medicine, Bk 3, sells for $2.49,
BOTH are 50% OFF the regular prices.
Don’t miss out. Order here:
https://shorturl.at/W3ho7
Jeff StookeyDec 24

There’s so much going on in the world right now that we have a lot to juggle here in the “war-ravaged” streets of Portland. Hope you are keeping all those balls in the air this holiday season. —Jeff & Ken

#HolidayGreetings 🎄 #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶

Jeff StookeyDec 24
#MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 novel trilogy
Smashwords.com End of Year eBook Sale runs December 8 - 31, 2025.
During this time:
Acquaintance, Bk 1, is FREE!
Chicago Blues, Bk 2, sells for $1.99
and
Dangerous Medicine, Bk 3, sells for $2.49,
BOTH are 50% OFF the regular prices.
Don’t miss out. Order today.
Jeff StookeyOct 12
Nat'l Coming Out Day, Oct. 11th! Come out of the closet. Be yourself! And read LGBTQ+ fiction.
#MedicineForTheBlues 🏳️‍🌈 is a 1920s gay love story. Jimmy Harper, an ambitious young jazz piano player, had to learn to accept his homosexuality. When young Dr. Carl Holman fell in love with him, it forced Jimmy’s awareness and embrace of his attraction to other men. Yet this story is set in 1923 when both men had to remain in the closet to the rest of society.
“impeccably researched” —reader comment
Jeff StookeySep 3, 2025

Here is July’s Featured Image from my website.
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Verso:
“Me & Ragle.
Motor Pool
ebelsberg
1947”

(two years after the end of WWII)
Ebelsberg, Linz, Upper Austria, Austria,
site of a battle during the Napoleonic Wars
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A new Featured Image is now up on the website for September.
Scroll down to the bottom of the landing page:
https://jeffstookey.com/

#MedicineForTheBlues #vintagePhoto #affectionateMen

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Jeff StookeyJul 24, 2025

Sale ends on July 31. eBooks of #MedicineForTheBlues now at promo prices. Don’t miss out! https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jstookey

“…this entire trilogy was incredible…only after finishing this last one can I truly appreciate the scope of what Stookey accomplished here…brilliant in his execution.”
—Goodreads review

re Acquaintance: “Beautifully written. Impeccably researched.”
—DP Clarence on Instagram

“I read this trilogy back in 2019, and it was among the best books I read that year.”
—Robert Young on FB

Jeff StookeyJun 8, 2025
On Wednesday, June 11th, I will be reading from my #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 trilogy at BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, Oregon.
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Join us at BOLD as we celebrate Portland Book Week with a night of readings featuring writers Henry Latourette Miller, Nicole Rosevear, and Jeff Stookey.
Arrive at 5:00 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 5:30 p.m.
Jeff StookeyJun 5, 2025
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH (in the USA) ‼️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
Read with PRIDE!
As LGBTQ+ Pride month celebrations begin, may I recommend reading my #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 trilogy. A gay love story set in 1923.
Acquaintance, Bk 1
Chicago Blues, Bk 2
Dangerous Medicine, Bk 3
Available wherever paperbacks, eBooks, and audioBooks are sold.
Jeff StookeyMay 9, 2025
#MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 is set in the 1923, as the KKK was growing in influence politically and socially. The 1920s KKK was rabidly anti-Catholic, demonizing immigrants of Italian descent and other immigrants who might be Catholic, fearing that the Pope and the Church wanted to take over the United States. (Wild conspiracy theories are nothing new!)
Now, however, the majority on the US Supreme Court is Catholic, and just today, for the first time, an American was named Pope.
O, the irony! #books
Jeff StookeyApr 22, 2025
Well, I guess a few people read my books. #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 #books #gaybooks #lgbtqnovels