Episode 94 with Jeffrey Westhoff

Jeffrey Westhoff has served as a film critic, feature writer, reporter, and copy editor in his career as a journalist. He wrote his first novel, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, while working as a freelance writer. He has finished his second novel, a spy thriller aimed at a younger audience, which he hopes to sell this year. He is working on his third novel, a sequel to his second book. Jeffrey grew up in Erie, Pa. As a teenager, he spent his Saturday mornings at the library and his Saturday nights at the movies. That love of reading and film prepared his future as a movie critic. Seeing Star Wars on its opening day in 1977 made him a movie lover, but it was a viewing of The Spy Who Loved Me that sealed Jeffrey’s fate as a James Bond fan. His first published movie review appeared in the Erie Times-News while he was senior in high school. Jeffrey attended college at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He has worked in newspapers in Indiana and the Chicago suburbs. He took up ballroom dancing two years ago and last summer took first place in a national competition. He now lives with a grouchy cat in Chicago’s northwest suburbs and works for a nonprofit. We talk about his work, writing, love of reading, James Bond and of course Spider-Man and Spider-Girl. You can connect with Jeff at:  Website: jeffreywesthoff.com Twitter: @JeffreyWesthoff, @Knew_Too_Much Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffwesthoff/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorJeffreyWesthoff/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreywesthoff/