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Let’s just say Jonathan reads.  He would say, “Everyone should pick up some Lovecraft every once and a while.”  As a kid, The Hobbit was the first fantasy book he ever consumed.  From then on, it was Terry Brooks, Ray Bradbury, Glen Cook, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, to mention a few.  One thing always stuck out: make the world so captivating, you wish you could be there every day.

As fantasy grew into a love for characterization, Jonathan continued his consumption of good, real people.  Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and Herman Melville. What made real characters real?

It was his love for people and a representation of all the struggles we go through that birthed his writing.  For Jonathan, it wasn’t just about the fantastic world, but about the people and how they feel, touch, and experience that world that fascinated him, and does, and will continuously.