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Hi Folks!
I've entertained audiences with my songs in the US and Europe since the 60’s; even a trip to China where I sang on the Great Wall.
Among my credits are five Hollywood-produced musicals, a string of album and CD releases and specialty material on a variety of television shows.
My story-telling style migrated easily from songs to short stories and novels. "Love at the Lumina Pavilion" has joined "Gaston's Last Run" and “The Powder Monkey of Cape Fear" as award winning short stories.
Looking for a mystery-adventure novel? The Rands Conspiracy and Deadly Research are now available.
For more info, pix and what's happening visit Jon Batson.com and MySpace.com/JonBatson_author
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Print: $19.95 Download: FREE This character driven sci-fi novel explores issues concerning survival, interpersonal relationships and quality of life when many of Earth's population are “displaced” elsewhere. Always riveting and often humorous, Fade to Black captivates the reader in an ever-evolving tale set on an inhospitable world.
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Print: $12.95 Download: FREE A small boy sitting outside the principal's office, a businessman having coffee at Starbucks, a journalist nursing his drink in a saloon in the 1800s. Here are twelve stories as diverse as these characters from the author of The Rands Conspiracy and Deadly Research.
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Print: $12.95 Download: FREE Tales from the dark side, those that dwell in the shadows, from the author of The Rands Conspiracy and Deadly Research. From the summer heat of New York's Greenwich Village to the chill of Thompson Bog, if you can't sleep - this collection won't help.
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Print: $15.95 Download: $5.95 The Rands Conspiracy takes the reader on a Bourne-style chase as Josh and his development team run for their lives after creating an “experimental” spyware program for the powerful government funded Rands Group.
Josh Borland was taking unemployment rather well. His sudden termination from the Rands Group was unexpected, but he was vacationing in the sun and the sand with others in the same virtual boat.
In the morning Josh finds himself hung over but alive. In fact, he is the only one still alive.
Josh does his best to gather his friends from Rands in order to unravel the mystery, but more importantly, to keep them alive.
"The Rands Conspiracy is a short, fast-paced and absorbing novel foreshadowing what may well become the experience of citizens worldwide a mere five years down the road." ~ Beverly Eakman, columnist & award-winning author.
Vist the author at JonBatson
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Print: $12.95 Download: FREE Unpublished novelist Jack Richmond is given an assignment by a publisher, write a book that is relevant to our time. He begins researching the book, not knowing that his task is an exercise in data gathering. But there are factions who don't want the data gathered, and other factions who want it gathered but not evaluated. Jack and his girlfriend find themselves the target of numerous attempts on their lives.
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Print: $12.95 Download: FREE Unpublished novelist Jack Richmond is given an assignment by a publisher, write a book that is relevant to our time. He begins researching the book, not knowing that his task is an exercise in data gathering. But there are factions who don't want the data gathered, and other factions who want it gathered but not evaluated. Jack and his girlfriend find themselves the target of numerous attempts on their lives. Large Print Edition
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Print: $9.95 Download: FREE A guide to singing for seniors' facilities. Sentimental Journey is your handbook for putting together a show for those who love the songs of the 1930's and 1940's.
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Print: $14.95 A spiral bound journal with songwriting tips and inspirational quotes by famous and not-so-famous people with each page turn.
“I've been recommending your book to my production clients at the beginning of their projects." Chris Wimberley, Nightsound Studios
“Wonderful idea to combine a journal style book with great songwriting concepts. I bought 21 copies to give as gifts to the students in my songwriting class.” Harriet Schock, Platinum songwriter
“It’s all about finding your muse and harnessing it long enough to get something done. A worthwhile investment and a great gift! Larry Wines, FolkWorks
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Print: $5.92 Download: FREE This story won second place in the The Lower Cape Fear Historical Society's Annual Short Story Contest 2005 and was recently published in the Encore newspaper in Wilmington, NC. As the stories submited were required to be based on history, even if somewhat loosely, I had to do some research into the region. In studying up on Stede Bonnet aka “the Gentleman Pirate” and Edward Teach aka “Blackbeard”, I discovered a little known fact. This fact became the basis for the tale. I invite you to travel back to 1717 to the Carolina coast and download this bit of mystery. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it! Feel free to write your review and rating and tell your friends.
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Coming soon! A new collection of science-fiction short stories for August. And in September - Nina Knows the Night - a new adventure novel. A shy young woman takes on the crime in her neighborhood.
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