Eric Jerome Dickey

Dickey’s book An Accidental Affair follows James Thicke  a man whose mysterious past runs as deep as his violent streak. He’s become very successful as a screenwriter and his marriage to movie actress Regina Baptiste is better than ever. In the midst of filming his latest script, starring Regina and leading man Johnny Bergs, James receives a video of his wife caught in a compromising situation.

Dickey’s book Resurrecting Midnight follows Gideon who trusts no one. But when his former lover resurfaces in need of his skills, Gideon accepts. The assignment leads to Argentina and a team of international mercenaries who will kill and torture to achieve victory. One of them has a connection to Gideon that neither assassin is aware of, a secret link that reaches into Gideon’s past and plunges him into a double-cross so explosive no one will make it out alive.

Last night I got the news that Resurrecting Midnight debut on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers list. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Dickey follows Gideon in Waking With Enemies. A heated encounter inside a London hotel room leaves Gideon waking up to a world where there’s no one to trust. Someone has taken out a hit on the hit man—but who? The clock is ticking as Gideon tries to pin down the man who was sent to kill him while also finding out who from his past might have ordered the hit.  As the hunter becomes the hunted, Gideon will need to find his friends and his enemies to get out of the game alive.

It picks up exactly where Sleeping With Strangers leaves off. So if you read Sleeping With Strangers first you get a lot more information on the characters.

Dickey’s book Chasing Destiny follows a woman name Billie who is in love with her soul mate, but her soul mate just happens to be legally married to someone else. Whenever Billie needs to get away from everyone, she just hops on her bike and chases the wind. Once her lovers family finds out about their affair they will not stop until Billie is ruined.

Well, you know, it opens with the main character, one of the main characters, Billie, she’s pregnant and she’s going to tell her boyfriend, Keith, and at the same moment Keith is coming to tell Billie that he’s going back to his wife.

Dickey’s book Thieves’ Paradise is an interesting novel about  con artists looking for love and making ends meet—on the wrong side of the law. 

The thing about jail, you go in and you’re housed with criminals and you come out a criminal. You don’t get a B.A., you come out knowing more about crime. You see in movies and in real life, when you’re leaving jail, they say “we’ll see you again, son.” Once a criminal always a criminal.

Dickey’s book Liar’s Game tells the tale of Dana who leaves New York to escape a roller-coaster relationship. Vincent lives in Los Angeles and is trying to forget his own shattered marriage. They want to plan a future together, but first they have to stop running from their pasts. On how reading Judy Blume helped write this book:

Some of her (Judy Blume) scenes are pretty explicit and I decided that was the way I wanted to write this book. I wanted to be able to write objectively about Vince and Dana getting into a fight. It’s not about me or any relationship I’ve been in. It’s not a broad statement about relationships. It’s just about where Vince and Dana are at this moment in their lives. They really love each other, but the straws of discontent on both sides of the room are just so heavy that things just snowball.

Dickey’s book Cheaters describes how even good people can have bad luck when dating. Character Stephan loves them and leaves them, just like his father. Character Chanté thinks she’s found her dream man, until his wife and kids come banging on her door. Character Jake on the other hand is a player and he just can’t shake the bad dreams he’s been having. Darnell is faithful to his wife, but the temptation to step outside his marriage is getting tougher every day. Tammy is caught between the man she loves, and the woman he’s promised to. And Karen is constantly lecturing her friends about fooling around, but she is not living up to her own high standards.

In Cheaters, I had a character, Darnell, who wanted to be a writer, and now I wanted to write about somebody who had been in the business for a while. So I thought about making the narrator Darnell, but that would mean that the woman who’d left him would have to be Tammy, and getting those two characters to this place just wasn’t going to work.