Denny “Doc” Macomber
Screenwriter, Novelist, Sailor
Biography:
Doc Macomber belongs to many leading writing organizations, including the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, Friends of Mystery, and Willamette Writers. He has contributed articles to the prestigious Mystery Readers Journal and Bloodletter on the history of ethnic detectives, and the origin of his hybrid Vietnamese investigator, Jack Vu, as well as a chapter in “Finding the Key Strengths and Weaknesses of your Detective Character” in “Now Write! Mysteries: Suspense, Crime and Thriller Fiction Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers” published in 2012 by the Penguin Group (USA). His Jack Vu Mystery Series includes: The Killer Coin, Wolf’s Remedy, Snip, and Riff Raff, a finalist in the Killer Nashville Claymore Award. His latest novel published in 2018 is, River Rat, the second in the Jason Colefield Mystery Series. The first in the series, River City, was a Silver Medal Winner in the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publisher’s Association (IBPA) in the Suspense and Mystery category. Mr. Macomber formerly served with an Air Force Special Tactics Unit and now lives aboard a trawler on the Columbia River. As a decorated Marine Captain once noted, “Doc sees much … says little … and writes it all down.”