Summaries of novels

The Xander Series
One Two Three, Disaster: (in progress)
Jeremy Xander comes from a broken home - his mother committed suicide when he was young and his father is abusive - and he wants so very badly to come out on top. He'll do anything to prove that he doesn't need his father to make it in the world. He succeeds, but at what price?
Words: To be determined
Market/genre: Contemporary fiction
General warnings for erotica, drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse and illegal acts such as larceny.
One Two Three, Shatter: (completed) – signed to Silver
All it takes is one, two, three. This is the story of one man's battle through abuse, addiction and heartbreak to find a happiness he's never known. It'll take a miracle, and he's banking on someone to be just that for him before he gives it all up.
Words: 159,589
Market/genre: Literary Fiction, Gay Fiction.
General warnings for explicit violence, child abuse, sexual abuse, rape, forced incest, under-aged sex, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, self-injury, heterosexual and homosexual erotica.
One Two Three, Salvation: (completed) The son of the saved becomes the savior. (Book two in The Xander Series)
After growing up alongside his surrogate father, Kaleb Xander, Kay Doyle-Xander feels plain and unworthy of the girl he's been crushing on. So he begins hanging out with Johnny Collins, an enigmatic new kid who's just transferred from Van Nuys. What he doesn't expect is for Johnny to pull him into his dark little world. Will he be able to pull himself out, and more importantly, can he take Johnny back with him?
Words: 50,086
Market/genre: Gay Fiction.
General warnings for homosexual erotica, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and mentions of past child abuse.
Drawing By Heart: One choice can change everything. (Book three in The Xander Series)
Kay X thought college would be the best years of his life, and they have been, coming with new amazing people in his life, their colorful personalities enriching his experience tenfold. The biggest problem with that is that he feels like his boyfriend, Johnny Collins, is pushing him away the more he gets out into the world. Through the friends he's been making, he meets Drew Robinson, a sweet, charismatic guy with an eye for elegant detail, and he pulls Kay in, leaving him at a loss for how to move forward. When the unexpected happens and he has to make a life-or-death choice between the past and the present, Kay will have to choose how to best protect the ones he loves.
Words: TBD
Market/genre: Gay Fiction.
General warnings for homosexual erotica, drug abuse, and alcohol abuse.

Kabuki Scarlet: (completed)
Born as James Aldaine, Kabuki Scarlet roams the streets, searching for the ones rife with sin and skillfully destroying them. He is strict, cold, and methodical, showing his face only to the ones about to die. Along the way, he meets Joseph, an anguished ex-cop who has sworn never to love again after losing the woman he loved, but Kabuki is inexplicably drawn to his intelligence. Will Joseph be the one to change this intelligent madman’s ways?
Words: 40,766
Market: Crime, Murder-Mystery, Gay Fiction.
General warnings for explicit violence, gore, murder, skewed belief systems, dogma, sexual situations, and homosexual erotica.

Phoenix: (completed) – signed to eXtasy books
College is a lot more complicated than anyone thought.
For Blake, it’s a test of wills and patience—who will accept him, and who will cast him out? Every connection he makes brings him further and further away from his own ever-growing dark thoughts. Maybe someone can even convince him he’s not just a freak.
Devon’s starting to realize how much it’s a growing up experience. He’s away from his best friend in a whole new world, and he’s got a lot to learn.
Riley, the unlikely friend and frat boy, finds himself pulling away from his typical clique—including Dominic, the bully and star quarterback, and gravitating elsewhere. Work, fascination, friendships—needless to say, they’ll never be the same.
Words: 50,911
Genre: LGBT Fiction, coming-of-age romance
General warnings for transgender issues, bullying, mentions of domestic abuse, violence and erotica.

Kill To Believe: (completed) - out to The Wild Rose Publishing
Nathan Achen’s had a tough life, but he’s made the best of it.
Coming from a rough household and a violent past, he’s come out on top as a star assassin for a mercenary company. Still, he feels like something’s wrong, and after tragedy strikes he ends up giving it up in favor of a regular life. The thing with that, though, is that it still feels like something’s missing. Over the course of the years, he meets many people: friends, foes, targets, father figures, and everything in between. His life truly changes when he meets a bright, intensely optimistic man named Mike Johannson. Mike seems to be everything he's not, his polar opposite, and of course he’s attracted right off the bat. Can they navigate through Nathan’s less than savory past to find that fulfillment that’s been eluding Nathan his entire life?
Words: 59,161
Market: Crime, Thriller, Gay Fiction.
General warnings for explicit violence, murder, sexual situations, and homosexual erotica.

Author Profile

Hello there! My name's Joey James Hook. I'm a twenty-five-year old man who lives in Canoga Park, California. Among my favorite things to do are reading, writing, watching TV, eating ice cream, and listening to loud music. I attended three and a half years of schooling at Western Nevada College.

My passions aside from writing are eating, music - particularly going to shows and rocking out - and going to the beach. My biggest inspirations are the bands Dear Silence, Burn Halo, Eighteen Visions, Atreyu, Bleeding Through, Papa Roach, Asking Alexandria, A Skylit Drive and, more than any other, Avenged Sevenfold. My first novel has dedicated to the loving memory of Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan (RIP, February 10th, 1981 to December 28, 2009).

I am a freelance writer. I have two novels contracted to ebook publishers, Phoenix to Extasy Books, and One Two Three, Shatter to Silver Publishing. I also do write advertisements for two companies called The Content Authority and Interact Media. They both give their employees a broad subject such as men’s watches with specifications to what they want in the article, and ask the writers employed to write engaging, well-researched 300+ word summaries for the product being sold. I have been writing since I was about nine years old, starting with poetry and moving onto fiction.

To get in contact, drop me an email at joey.jade.fox@gmail.com

Words of praise for Joey James Hook:

"I'll always remember you fondly as one of my favourite writers. I hope you're still writing and more than that, I hope you're published by now because you deserve to be.” - Scarlet Blackwell

“I respect you so much. You really write fantastic, entertaining stories that suck me in and don't let go until the very end of the last chapter.” -a fellow writer