{"id":75,"date":"2022-12-09T18:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:03:14","slug":"meet-mj","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/?page_id=75","title":{"rendered":"Meet MJ (Media Kit)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I grew up near Cardiff, New York, a place best known for its <a title=\"Cardiff Giant\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/cardiff-giant-was-just-big-hoax-180965274\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">giant,<\/a> a hoax so successful, P.T. Barnum duplicated it. The tale of the \u201cpetrified man\u201d taught me that inventing stories could be a career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although my 30 years of working in local television included such highlights as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>being bitten by a lion<\/li>\n<li>preempting a US President for a college basketball game<\/li>\n<li>giving a three-time world champion boxer a few black eyes<\/li>\n<li>meeting my husband<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>the urge to write\u00a0my own stories has never gone away.<\/p>\n<p>I still live in upstate New York with my husband. Music and cooking are two of my passions, and I enjoy baseball, college basketball, and sitting on my patio on summer nights to count lightning bugs, but I&#8217;m primarily focused on writing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOADABLE MEDIA KIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MJ-Compton-Bio02-1.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MJ Compton Bio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MJ-COMPTON-Mission-and-Goals.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MJ Compton Mission &amp; Goals<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Head-shot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MJ Compton Author Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MJ-Compton-Social-Media-Links.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MJ Compton Social Media Links<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Right-Place_v3f.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Right Place: An Origin Novella<\/em> Cover<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/THE-RIGHT-PLACE-FACTS-facts-blurbs.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Right Place: An Origin Novella<\/em> Facts &amp; 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Blurbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MJ-Compton-ebook.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Beware of the Moon (Service for Sanctuary Book 2)<\/em> Cover<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/BEWARE-OF-THE-MOON-REV-Facts.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Beware of the Moon (Service for Sanctuary Book 2)<\/em> Facts &amp; Blurbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Catcher-Interference_a-BN.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catcher Interference (Tag &amp; Skye Part 1) <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Catcher-Interference_a-BN.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cover<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CATCHER-INTERFERENCE-facts.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Catcher Interference (Tag &amp; 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Barnum duplicated it. The tale of the \u201cpetrified man\u201d taught me that inventing stories could be a career. 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