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Last Update: Jan. 9, 2026
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Jeff Dennis is a novelist and short story writer living in Loganville, Georgia with his wife, Cheryl. He is retired from the corporate IT world after 31 years working as a technical writer. He is the former Publisher/ Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning small press speculative fiction magazine, Random Realities.
Jeff is the author of six novels and a short story collection. His seventh novel, Endangered Species, Book 3 of the Cretaceous Chronicles trilogy, will be published in May.​
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In a previous life, he performed as a guitarist/vocalist in many rock bands, playing bars and stages around Atlanta, Nashville, and Southwest Florida (click Music to listen to a sampling of his recordings). Many of his stories contain references to pop and rock music.
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Click Books for descriptions and purchasing information for each of his books.
Coming in May . . . Endangered Species
Book 3 of the Cretaceous Chronicles Trilogy
Dinosaurs have returned to Montana and Idaho along the Continental Divide following a long, harsh winter, once again bringing havoc and destruction. Farmers, ranchers, and much of the human population want the creatures eradicated while paleontologists and wildlife biologists are pushing to protect them so they can further their studies. Meanwhile, exotic animal traffickers are cashing in on big payoffs from wealthy clients who will pay any amount to own these prehistoric animals.
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Endangered Species ​is a science fiction thriller populated with dangerous Cretaceous period dinosaurs. But it is much more than that. The novel also focuses on an organized animal rights domestic terrorist group and their crimes, a family saga centered around two Montana families dealing with the dinosaur invasion, and a love story between a pair of paleontologists.
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The story opens with a severed T-Rex head delivered in a cooler of dry ice to Bryan and Loretta Gilliam, longtime Montana ranchers. Spiked on the teeth of the Tyrannosaur head are several recent photos of Gilliam family members (Bryan, Loretta, and their three children). It's an obvious threat. But from who? And why?
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The gruesome threat kicks off the search for answers as private investigator Mike Mathews attempts to track down the culprits. The tale also follows helicopter pilot Peter Lacroix and his young family, and internationally renowned paleontologists/bestselling authors/dinosaur trackers Hayden Fowler and Nora Lemoyne, who are involved in a two-year relationship. There is also husband and wife exotic animal trappers, Mick and Claire Prescott, whose work leads them into big trouble, a shady taxidermist with a most bizarre collection of preserved animals, and an odd falconer-turned-Quetzalcoatlus-trainer who goes by the name Quetzal Whisperer and commands his pterosaurs to fetch small mammals and even human body parts.​​
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Of course there are many clashes between beasts and humans as well as beast vs. beast confrontations. There is also romance, music, love, forgiveness, and the broad pallet of human emotions that plays out as these characters deal with what the natural world (and criminal world) has delivered. Endangered Species promises to be a satisfying wrap-up of a classic science fiction trilogy.
Click 1st chapter to read the opening chapter of Endangered Species
Book 2 of the Cretaceous Chronicles Trilogy
Dragons of the Great Divide
It’s one year after meteorites packed with dinosaur eggs struck the Continental Divide in Montana and Idaho, hatching out hundreds of prehistoric creatures. It’s a new summer and Dromaeosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Triceratops are on the loose once again. A helicopter flight into Idaho’s River of No Return Wilderness in search of Tyrannosaurs turns deadly. The team of six learns a harsh lesson—the dragons of the Continental Divide are ruthlessly unforgiving.
Click Dragons for more details
Click 1st chapter to read the opening chapter
Check out Book 1 in the series that started it all . . .
Cretaceous Stones
Atmosphere Press Interview
I had an absolute blast being interviewed by Atmosphere Press in December 2025. They asked me some really cool questions about Cretaceous Stones and the Cretaceous Chronicles trilogy. There was even one question that asked what songs would I select as the soundtrack music to my dinosaur novels. I also ramble a bit about practicing my craft and where my ideas come from. Lots of fun! Check it out at https://atmospherepress.com/interview-with-jeff-dennis/
Hobo News: The Hobo Duology is now available in eBook
For the first time, Nightbird Publishing has released eBook editions of King of the Hobos and Hobo Jingo. These tales of train hopping hobo vigilante Derek Parnell will appeal to fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series.
