Maxwell the Spider

Jeremy C. Gredone is in love with telling stories, and, he would prefer to tell you one in person. While he fully admits that telling stories often includes the art of tasteful exaggeration, one of his favorite personal anecdotes (about a spider) seemed so fantastical to him that he had to do something he never planned on in his wildest dreams – write a children’s book. Since leaving the big city for the proverbial cabin-on-a-mountain some years ago, Jeremy has written five screenplays, over thirty short stories, hundreds of poems, and, the one children’s book he never planned on. Another adventure he never planned on until it fell in his lap, was joining the Peace Corps right out of college, and spending three years in the West African, island nation of Cabo Verde, teaching English. He readily attributes this with being one of the best decisions he ever made and remains eternally grateful for the incalculably rich and wonderful life lessons he was lucky enough to receive there.