In 2014 he was the Grand Master of the Krewe of Little Rascals parade, the first parade of the New Orleans Mardi Gras. He helped create the Conway Stewart Detection Collection with a pen named for him. Jecks speaks at literary festivals and historical meetings, at which he talks with Ian Mortimer, the historian, as well as Medieval Murderers. He also judged the CWA/Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for three years. He was shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Best Novel of the Year prize in 2007. From 1998 he organised the CWA Debut Dagger competition for two years, helping unpublished authors to win their first contracts.

In 2005 he became a member of the Detection Club. Ī member of the Society of Authors and Royal Literary Society, Jecks was the Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association in 2004–05. More recently he helped create the Historical Writers' Association. The group has developed to collaborate on their books written as linked novellas, each book with a consistent theme, under the brand of The Medieval Murderers. He founded The Medieval Murderers, a speaking and entertainment group of historical writers including Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory, Phillip Gooden and CJ Sansom. Jecks has written a series of novels featuring Sir Baldwin Furnshill, a former Knight Templar, and his friend Simon Puttock, Bailiff of Lydford Castle. He, his wife, daughter and son live in northern Dartmoor.

The son of an actuary, and the fourth of four brothers, Jecks worked in the computer industry before becoming a novelist full-time in 1994 after he was fired from his last position. Michael Jecks (born 1960, Surrey) is an English writer of historical mystery novels.

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