Jay L MacDonaldJay L. MacDonald is a former award-winning United Press International wire service reporter who checked out of the news mainstream and into the heady world of "Key Weird" to pursue fiction. He lived in a dilapidated Cuban rooming house, worked days a a hired worker, and spent nights writing in Key West's most notorious watering holes. Since 2000, he has served as an online freelance feature writer and author interviewer for popular dot-coms Bankrate, BookPage, CreditCards and Montana Press, as well as the Sunday Books Editor for the Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press daily newspaper, which spawned his Austin Macauley nonfiction debut, "Crazy from the Heat: Fun in the Sun with 35 Florida Authors." Read More Read Less