For 35 years I wrote songs, now and then a complete musical.  One day I woke up with an idea for a story that was not a song, so I started writing.  Before long I had a book.  When I moved back to NC, I entered a historical short story contest and won 2nd place. The following year I won 1st place, and again the year after that.  Now I get depressed if I don't write something every day.  It's a heady narcotic.  I also have published a friend's non-fiction, which is scarier than anything I could have dreamed up.  Midnight Whistler Publishers is now a viable reality.

Four time winner of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Short Story Competition and winner of the coveted Artists for a New Civilization Award, Jon has been listed in Who's Who in America and in the World.