About
Joe Broadmeadow
Joe Broadmeadow retired as a captain from the East Providence Police Department after twenty years of service, having commanded the Investigative Services Division and served on the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force with the FBI and DEA. Since founding JEBWizard Creative Media in 2019, he has written across crime fiction, the Josh Williams and Hawk Bennett series, along with co-authored true crime, YA fantasy, and literary fiction, bringing an investigator’s evidentiary eye to both his novels and his opinion writing. A 2014 Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, a grandfather, and a Cumberland High School graduate with deep roots in the town, he lives in Rhode Island, or wherever his travels take him.
At a glance
- Captain (ret.), East Providence Police Department, twenty years of service
- Commanded the Investigative Services Division
- Assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force with the FBI and DEA
- Founded JEBWizard Creative Media in 2019, a hybrid publisher for new and emerging authors
- Frequent op-ed contributor to the Providence Journal and other publications
- Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, 2014
The writing
The Josh Williams novels and the Hawk Bennett books grew out of what Joe saw on the job: the politics, the code, the courage, and the compromises. The true crime books were written alongside the people who were there. The Last Dragon books and the picture books are for the next generation of readers, including a couple of grandsons who have strong opinions about dragons.