About
JeffPhillips lives in Chicago, IL. In 2006 heco-founded Three Leaves Productions with Daniel Mac Rae and set to workshooting a short film, Growing Out of Us, which Phillips co-wrote andacted in. They went on to shoot The Antimonk, Terra Incognita,and The Principles. They have also produced several plays of whichPhillips acted in dual roles as Walter Nordman and Jerry Thompson in Magnetsand Paul in Division & Shame. Phillips and Mac Rae co-wrote TheDrowning Exercises. Jeff Phillips is active with Wood Sugars Comedy and hasworked closely with filmmaker James N. Kienitz Wilkins, having acted in NatureMature, Jeremy Goes to the Beach, and Public Hearing. Phillips beena regular contributor to the Seeding Meat publication series produced byXIII Pocket, a Chicago production group dedicatedto original works, of which Phillips is a member of their artistic ensemble. Hehas also written for the Three Leaves publication, Bellows. Hereleased his first book, Whiskey Pike in the summer of 2009.
Description
<p><span style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Richard II found himself under siege not once, but twice in his minority. Crowned king at age ten, he was only fourteen when the Peasants' Revolt terrorized London. But he proved himself every bit the Plantagenet successor, facing Wat Tyler and the rebels when all seemed lost. Alas, his triumph was short-lived, and for the next ten years he struggled to assert himself against his uncles and increasingly hostile nobles. Just like in the days of his great-grandfather Edward II, vengeful magnates strove to separate him from his friends and advisors, and even threatened to depose him if he refused to do their bidding. The Lords Appellant, as they came to be known, purged the royal household with the help of the Merciless Parliament. They murdered his closest allies, leaving the King alone and defenseless. He would never forget his humiliation at the hands of his subjects. Richard's inability to protect his adherents would haunt him for the rest of his life, and he vowed that next time, retribution would be his.</span><br /><span class="a-text-bold" style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;">B.R.A.G. Medallion honoree!</span></p>
Story Behind The Book
Turban Tan began as a flash fiction piece/short work of dialogue. It grew into a larger novella, exploring a longstanding idea I had about the future of economics and espionage.
