Bio

In Greenville, South Carolina, John Jeter is perhaps best known as a co-founder of The Handlebar, a concert venue he owned and operated with my wife, Kathy Laughlin, for 20 years.

Today, Jeter teaches at Converse College, where he won an Above & Beyond Award. He teaches music business and Creating Your Personal Brand.

Jeter is a nationally published author. His books include Rockin’ A Hard Place, a Hub City Press memoir based on his experience as the Greenville club’s talent buyer; The Plunder Room, his debut novel from St. Martin’s Press; and The Lucifer Genome, a co-authored thriller from Brigid’s Fire Press.

He is a contract stringer for The New York Times, and his work has appeared in USA Today. When he's not working as a freelance journalist, he is working on another novel, a musical and a stage play.

He spent a month in Italy for a writing residency and has traveled to Europe, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Central America, Mexico and Canada, the Caribbean, southern Africa, the Middle East and throughout the United States.

He once appeared on "Oprah!".