The Biography of Jeff "JD" Adler 1970-
Jeff Adler was born December 18, 1970 8:00 am, in Easton, PA, USA. He was born with a black eye, due to the use of forceps to extract his giant baby head from his mother's birth canal.
As a boy, growing up in suburbia, he led a fairly normal life of comic books, Dungeons and Dragons, and hours of scifi/fantasy reading. At the age of fourteen, he would be diagnosed with Juvenile Onset Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME). At this stage, it presented as absence seizures, which is essentially random moments of brief unconsciousness.
In 1989 Jeff Adler graduated from Easton Area High School somewhere towards the middle of his class. At that time he was an experienced dishwasher and inventory counter. He had no real desire to go to college, but having no better plan ended up at American University in Washington, D.C. Jeff expected his abysmal grades to be overshadowed by the arrest of the Mayor of D.C. for whoring and crack smoking, but he was wrong. His parents were surprisingly unconcerned about the Mayor. His decision to drop out of college offered little to reassure them.
After leaving college he moved to Pittsburgh, to stay with his brother, and worked at a unique establishment called Eat-n-Park. AFter saving up enough money, he bought a 1970 camper van, and AYHA membership, and set out across country. The van survived as far as Texas, when its crank shaft blew. He managed to finish out the trip via Greyhound bus, which is always a glorious experience.
Upon returning home, Jeff got work as a bar cook, moved into an apartment in downtown Easton, and co-started a small arts group, Artisan Lehigh Valley, with several friends. As editor of the group arts & literature magazine, "Collections", and curator of the poetry oen mics, Jeff began his publishing career.
It would be 1994 before Jeff would actually graduate from a small liberal arts college known as Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA with a bachelors degree in English Literature.
After graduation, Jeff took up traveling again. He began with a cross country trek that ended rather abruptly 2 days in, when his red Ford Escort was t-boned in an intersection, stood on its nose, then slammed onto the roof and spun like a top. EMS were astounded by his lack of injuries. After regrouping he accepted an invitation to live in Tahoe, CA for a winter. This is when he discovered the most beautiful place on Earth.
The following summer a friend and he hitch-hiked to Ketchikan, Alaska. Housing consisted of a tent village in a giant redwood forest.
After returning home briefly, Jeff moved to Arizona to attend graphic design school while working for AT&T, dropping out after he discovered the faculty were learning the material as they taught it.
In the year 2000 Jeff returned to Tahoe where he would work a variety of jobs, volunteer as a firefighter, and play in the snow. All was going quite well until his epilepsy medicine stopped functioning so well.
In the year 2003 Jeff returned to the east coast to attend graduate school and pursue his writing career more seriously. It was 2005 before he had settled on a program; the Master of Science in Publication Management at Drexel University, graduating in 2007. Soon after he created Digital Creation; an e-publishing company offering serial fiction and consulting on digital publishing projects for non-profits under the subsidiary, EPCO (easy publish company) press. A name chosen to honor his late father's and grandfather's legacies in that the acronym originates in the company they built.
As of October 2013, under the pen name JD Adler, Jeff has authored novels, political treatise, short fiction, serial fiction, plays, screenplays, short film scripts, poetry, white papers, and freelance journalism.