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JK Battaglia grew up playing outdoors from sun up to sun down. But he was introduced to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins at the age of 12 by a cousin during one summer. And life hasn't been the same since as he began to devour fantasy and science fiction novels. In his adult life, he's branched out into other books as well, but his mind is at home in fantasy and science fiction. He wrote Photogeist, A Hope Of Life, and A Slice Of Life while working as a Software Engineer. He is also the author of 'Twas The Tragedy Before Christmas and other works. He cherishes all sorts of other things too - quite numerous to mention here but a few are movies, music, art, comics, treehouses, fishing, boating, robots, drones, animals, hiking, roller coasters, and lea ...more

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	Photogeist (The Phantom Crisis, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 44 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
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Hi. If you recently won my book Photogeist in a Goodreads Giveaway contest, thank you for entering the contest and congratulations on winning the book.
If you haven't already checked out the book, I hope you will. It's meant to be a light, fun, and yet scary paranormal ride from start to finish.

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