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John Bascom

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John Bascom is the author of "Beneath a Hunter's Sky", his collection of outdoors short stories released in June 2015, and "Caine's Pestilence", a novel of political satire and biotech intrigue.

Bascom is retired from the corporate world and lives in rural northern Michigan with wife, Nickie, where he writes, teaches and consults. He holds degrees in Economics and Finance, spent thirty-five years in banking and eleven in health care governance.

In his free time, Bascom is an outdoors enthusiast, (poor) golfer, private airplane owner/pilot and rides a Harley. Other than that he is more-or-less normal.

If you're interested in learning more, look up Bascom on LinkedIn or visit www.cainespestilence.com
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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?
John Bascom One of my favorite books (and the movie as well) is 2001: A Space Odyssey If I could, I'd have traveled with HAL, the malevolent computer, to the edge…moreOne of my favorite books (and the movie as well) is 2001: A Space Odyssey If I could, I'd have traveled with HAL, the malevolent computer, to the edge of the solar system to see what was really there(less)
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John Bascom I'm afraid my life has not been terribly dramatic. Those things that are, I've written about in my two books, Caine's Pestilence and Beneath a Hunter'…moreI'm afraid my life has not been terribly dramatic. Those things that are, I've written about in my two books, Caine's Pestilence and Beneath a Hunter's Sky. My career with two mergers, a successful late-life job change, going near the top, then the bottom, and the top again could be fictionalized I supposed. My divorce in 1975 involved plenty of deception and scandal, but that's been so overdone in literature. I guess I'm pretty boring.(less)
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The Motleytown Bonefish Extravaganza



THE MOTLEYTOWN BONEFISH E XTRAVAGANZA


A couple on a hastily arranged


bone fishing trip find themselves


in an odd place with eccentric people

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