Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...

Minority leaders Schumer & Jeffries are caving in on letting ICE agents wear masks. The KKK wore masks. Just see my well researched historical novel trilogy #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶
Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW‼️act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out-for-good

To Kill A Mockingbird and my #MedicineForTheBlues share parallels, e.g. the mob scene with Atticus at the jail and Carl Holman’s run-ins with the KKK. Harper Lee’s tale is so poignant that I fought back tears through much of the it.

A reader commented:
“...as I wept reading Medicine for the Blues."

Jeff Stookey Growing up in a small town in rural Washington State, Jeff Stookey enjoyed writing stories. He studied literature, history, and cinema at Occidental College, and then got a BFA in Theater from Fort Wr...

5 days left for discounts on #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 trilogy, a gay love story set in the Jazz Age.
Smashwords eBook Sale ends 12/31/2025.
Acquaintance, Bk 1 - FREE!
Chicago Blues, Bk 2 - $1.99
Dangerous Medicine, Bk 3 - $2.49,
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There’s so much going on in the world right now that we have a lot to juggle here in the “war-ravaged” streets of Portland.
Hope you are keeping all those balls in the air this holiday season.
—Jeff & Ken

#HolidayGreetings 🎄 #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶

Consider carrying #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 which includes book 2, Chicago Blues, set in a mythical Chicago of the 1920s. A gay love story set in the Prohibition era Jazz Age, when a young doctor falls for an ambitious young jazz piano player.

Three Medicine For The Blues novels against a raibow background: Acquaintance, Bk 1, Chicago Blues, Bk 2, and Dangerous Medicine, Bk 3.

Cover of Acquaintance, Bk 1, against a blue background; Medicine for the Blues trilogy by Jeff Stookey.

Cover of Chicago Blues, Bk 2, against a blue background; Medicine for the Blues trilogy by Jeff Stookey.

Cover of Dangerous Medicine, Bk 3, against a blue background; Medicine for the Blues trilogy by Jeff Stookey.

#MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 novel trilogy
Smashwords.com End of Year eBook Sale: December 8 - 31, 2025.
During this time:
Acquaintance, Bk 1, is FREE!
Chicago Blues, Bk 2, sells for $1.99
and
Dangerous Medicine, Bk 3, sells for $2.49,
BOTH are 50% OFF the regular prices.
Don’t miss out. Order today.

@bookspotlight.bsky.social If you like historical fiction, please check out my novel trilogy #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 - a gay love story set in 1923. So many parallels with today’s politics!

If you like historical fiction, please check out my novel trilogy #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 - a gay love story set in 1923. So many parallels with today’s politics!

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#MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 novel trilogy
Smashwords.com End of Year eBook Sale runs December 8 - 31, 2025.
During this time:
Acquaintance, Bk 1, is FREE!
Chicago Blues, Bk 2, sells for $1.99
and
Dangerous Medicine, Bk 3, sells for $2.49,
BOTH are 50% OFF the regular prices.
Don’t miss out. Order today.

My #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 trilogy, set in 1923, has two protagonists, the loving couple of young Dr. Carl Holman and jazz piano player Jimmy Harper.

#MedicineForTheBlues 🎶

Reviews help authors sell books. #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶

Nat'l Coming Out Day, Oct 11th! Come out of the closet. And read LGBTQ+ fiction.
#MedicineForTheBlues - a 1920s gay love story. Jimmy Harper, an ambitious young jazz piano player, learns to accept his homosexuality when young Dr. Carl Holman falls in love with him. “impeccably researched” #booksky

cover photo: Acquaintance, a novel, Medicine for the Blues trilogy, Jeff Stookey.

cover photo: Chicago Blues, a novel, Book 2, Medicine for the Blues trilogy, Jeff Stookey.

cover photo: Dangerous Medicine, a novel, Book 3, Medicine for the Blues trilogy, Jeff Stookey.

All three covers against a rainbow background.

Oct. is LGBTQ+ History Month in USA. (UK celebrates this in Feb.)
NO better time to read about queer history.
#MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 is the gay love story of young Dr. Carl Holman, a WWI vet, who falls for an ambitious young jazz piano player named Jimmy Harper. Can society keep them apart? #Booksky

Three books stacked up diagonally with Acquaintance, a novel, on the bottom, Chicago Blues, a novel, book 2, in the middle, and Dangerous Medicine, a novel, book 3, Medicine for the Blues trilogy by Jeff Stookey on the top featuring a photo of a group of Klan members in white hoods and white robes.

Please ban my books! Help increase readership! #MedicineForTheBlues = KKK and eugenics laws for human sterilization in a gay love story set in 1923.

July’s Featured Image from my website:

Verso:
“Me & Ragle.
Motor Pool
ebelsberg
1947”
(2 yrs after the end of WWII)

A new Featured Image is now up on the website for September.
Scroll down to the bottom of the landing page:

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#MedicineForTheBlues #vintagePhoto #affectionateMen

#MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 is available from local bookstores. Local book shops can order books that you might order from Amazon. Keep it lical!

#MedicineForTheBlues 🌈 novel trilogy. On SALE now from Smashwords.

book cover of Acquaintance, book 1, of Medicine for the Blues novel trilogy by Jeff Stookey. @smashwords.bsky.social Sale ends on July 31. eBooks of #MedicineForTheBlues now at promo prices. “…this entire trilogy was incredible…only after finishing this last one can I truly appreciate the scope of what Stookey accomplished here…brilliant in his execution.” —Goodreads review #booksky

book cover of Chicago Blues, book 2, of Medicine for the Blues novel trilogy by Jeff Stookey. @smashwords.bsky.social Sale ends on July 31. eBooks of #MedicineForTheBlues now at promo prices. “…this entire trilogy was incredible…only after finishing this last one can I truly appreciate the scope of what Stookey accomplished here…brilliant in his execution.” —Goodreads review #booksky

book cover of Dangerous Medicine, book 3, of Medicine for the Blues novel trilogy by Jeff Stookey. @smashwords.bsky.social Sale ends on July 31. eBooks of #MedicineForTheBlues now at promo prices. “…this entire trilogy was incredible…only after finishing this last one can I truly appreciate the scope of what Stookey accomplished here…brilliant in his execution.” —Goodreads review #booksky

@smashwords.bsky.social Sale ends on July 31. eBooks of #MedicineForTheBlues now at promo prices.

“…this entire trilogy was incredible…only after finishing this last one can I truly appreciate the scope of what Stookey accomplished here…brilliant in his execution.”
—Goodreads review
#booksky

The last week of the @smashwords.bsky.social Summer/Winter Sale. eBooks of my #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 trilogy are available for promotional prices. Don’t miss out!

7/1/25 - 7/31/25 is your chance to buy my novel trilogy #MedicineForTheBlues for promo prices at @Smashwords—part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale!
This is a gay love story— a young doctor falls for an ambitious young jazz piano player. #Booksky
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Wed. 6/11/2025 I will be reading from my #MedicineForTheBlues trilogy at BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St, Portland, OR, 5:30 - 7 pm.
Join us at BOLD as we celebrate Portland Book Week with a night of readings with writers Henry Latourette Miller, Nicole Rosevear, and Jeff Stookey.
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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH ‼️🏳️‍🌈 (USA)
Read with PRIDE!
As LGBTQ+ Pride month celebrations begin, may I recommend reading my #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 trilogy
A gay love story set in 1923
Acquaintance Bk 1
Chicago Blues Bk 2
Dangerous Medicine Bk 3
Available wherever paperbacks, eBooks, and audioBooks are sold

#MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 set in 1923 — the KKK was wildly anti-Catholic, attacking Italian immigrants & those who might be Catholic, scared the Pope might take over the US. (O, conspiracy theories!)
Now the majority on SCOTUS is Catholic, and just today an American was named Pope.
The IRONY! #booksky

Well, I guess a few people read my books. #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 #booksky #gaybooks #lgbtqnovels

CD record covers: * Bessie Smith [1892-1937], [the “Empress of the Blues,” eclipsing Mamie Smith] * Mamie Smith [1891-1946], "The Queen of the Blues" the first woman of color to record jazz/blues music, but with an all white band “in all probability”, according to the liner notes. * Ma Rainey [1886-1939)], "Mother of the Blues,” reported to have mentored Bessie Smith. Book Covers: * Nella Larsen, two short novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) * Lillian Faderman, Surpassing the Love of Men, Romantic Friendships and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (1981) and Od Girls and Twilight Lovers, A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America (1991)

Book covers: * Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) * Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (1933) * Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (1990) * Marie Equi [1872-1952], Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions, by Michel Helquist (2015) * Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan, Racism and Gender in the 1920s(1991)

#WomensHistoryMonth
These informed #MedicineForTheBlues
Side 1
* Bessie Smith [1892-1937]
* Mamie Smith [1891-1946],
* Ma Rainey [1886-1939)]
* Nella Larsen
* Lillian Faderman
Slide 2
* Zora Neale Hurston
* Gertrude Stein
* Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
* Marie Equi [1872-1952]
*Kathleen Blee

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#MedicineForTheBlues 🎶 by @JeffStookey1923 audiobooks

Smashwords – Medicine for the Blues

#eBook SALE! March 2-8 only.
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“a brilliantly written story” “…well crafted and a beautiful read…”
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If you want a sense of what the KKK was up to in the 1920s, my #MedicineForTheBlues 🎶🌈 novel trilogy gives an on the ground view of the KKK influence to social and political life in the Jazz Age.