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Author and Musician Jack Batcher, currently lives and creates in Islip, New York. He is a Brentwood High School graduate, who also graduated with a liberal arts degree from Suffolk Community College. Jack has performed as a lead singer and guitarist either solo acoustic, or with a band in the New York area bars, clubs, & coffee houses from the Hamptons to Manhattan. Jack is also a guitar teacher who has encouraged his student’s creative pursuits for the past ten years and continues to give guitar lessons.
Channeling his creative passions from writing songs and poems, Jack followed the muse towards writing books and self-published his first novel Death of a Pop-Star in August 2008. Jack had also written a few Children’s stories and the ...more

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	Burnt Eggs and Scrambled Toast by Jack Batcher (Goodreads Author), Charles Berton (illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Are There Monsters in My Closet? by Jack Batcher (Goodreads Author), Charles Berton (Illustrations) 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Under a Thunder Moon 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silly Halloween!: Joke & Coloring Book by Jack Batcher (Goodreads Author), Kevin Stockton (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How I Killed My Mother-In-Law 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silly Cow!: Joke & Coloring Book by Jack Batcher (Goodreads Author), Kevin Stockton it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Love Affairs & Murder! New book!

I'm excited to tell you that on February 14th, 2018, the first book in my mystery series, Love Affairs & Murder Book One: A Bullet for My Valentine, was published. The series is set in Suffolk County, on Long Island. It takes place mostly in the Hamptons. The story also features a main detective, Homicide Detective Rachel Gunn.

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I picked this book up at a James Patterson book signing at the Book Revue in Huntington. It was a good read and I like the deadly woman assign.
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I liked the modern day Cowboy aspect of the story. It was an entertaining read. I did have an idea early in the book about who the killer was, and I was right. I thought the reveal of the killer was a really quick and psychotic. In my opinion, I woul ...more
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“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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