Jay Matthew a Houston, TX area native has years of experience in screenplay writing, stage play writing, directing and educating. Jay has previously written and directed stage plays such as almosthappy and You Don't Even Love Me, and Church Picnic which was produced by The Svelte Production Company. In 2009 Jay published his first play entitled Diamonds, and has since been working on other projects. Now after working on novel writing for several years Jay is proud to announce his first finished novel entitled The Magnificent Life of Mercer F. Roux Volume 1- True Identity.