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Ben Jackson

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Ben Jackson was born in Tasmania, Australia, and is a successful indie author that has been writing for over four years. Ben is married to Sam Lawrence, and together they specialize in self-publishing children's books. Ben is also a freelance writer that specializes in writing website content for businesses and a wide variety of different articles, along with running his own company, Author Services Australia.

They have published a series of children's books called My Little Fart Series and Hockey Wars, as well as If I Was A Caterpillar and several other non-fiction books. Their latest book, Softball Strikeout: The New Girl, is available now on Amazon.

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	The Day My Fart Followed Me To The Dentist (Timmy and the Little Fart, #5) by Ben Jackson (Goodreads Author), Sam Lawrence, Danko Herrera (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 133 ratings — 5 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
	How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse by Ben Jackson (Goodreads Author), Christina Hobbs (Preparation) 4.10 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Softball Strikeout: The New Girl by Ben Jackson (Goodreads Author), Sam Lawrence, Tanya Zeinalova (Illustrator) 4.69 avg rating — 49 ratings — 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
	The Day My Fart Followed Me Home (Timmy and the Little Fart, #1) by Ben Jackson (Goodreads Author), Sam Lawrence 4.10 avg rating — 42 ratings — 10 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
	The Day My Fart Followed Santa Up The Chimney (Timmy and the Little Fart, #3) 4.63 avg rating — 24 ratings — 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
	Don't Fart In The Pool! 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — 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
	The Day My Fart Followed Me to Soccer (Timmy and the Little Fart, #4) by Ben Jackson (Goodreads Author), Sam Lawrence, Danko Herrera (Goodreads Author) (illustrator.) 4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — 5 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
	The Day My Fart Followed Me To The Zoo (Timmy and the Little Fart, #6) by Ben Jackson (Goodreads Author), Sam Lawrence, Danko Herrera (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 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
	If I Was A Caterpillar 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — 6 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
	Ghosts Can't Play Hockey by Ben Jackson (Goodreads Author), Sam Lawrence 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 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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Our latest book, Softball Strikeout: The New Girl , is book one in our planned softball series and has just been released.

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Dune Messiah (Dune #2)

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Making Connections: 4565. - THE DAY MY FART FOLLOWED ME TO HOCKEY by Ben Jackson & Sam Lawrence	3	10	Sep 19, 2016 07:29AM
Making Connections: 4564. - THE DAY MY FART FOLLOWED ME HOME by Ben Jackson & Sam Lawrence	4	11	Oct 07, 2016 07:00AM