Jonathan V. Cann – Jonathan V. Cann

The Epiphany of Mark Daley

Mark Daley’s hometown is full of secrets, and he’s one of them! Starting his sophomore year at Woodvale High eager for a change, Mark meets the SK Crew, a group of five ridiculous juniors who show him a life he never thought he could have. But a day of deranged violence in the halls is only the first in a year full of signs that Mark’s past is coming back to haunt him, forcing him to split himself between everyday adventures with his new friends and beating back the darkness on Woodvale’s fringe. Hiding in school events and hangouts around town, the forces of chaos keep getting stronger. The question is: how can Mark fight it if the chaos is already inside him, too?

The Bite of Chaos (Children of Woodvale #5)

The eve of invasion is here, and the SK Crew is caught in the middle. The Incisors are back to redeem their child folk hero, Billy Cray, and their leader, the Chaos Master, is willing to kill everyone Mark Daley loves to get what Cray …

InGooglable – “sketch comedy show black hole in a jar school show and tell” “more of a charcoal gray” “mr. penderghast”

What I Remembered – This sketch from a kids’ comedy variety show would pop into my head once every few years. In a classroom not unlike the ones at my own school, a boy brings a black hole in a jar for show and tell, …

InGooglable – Introduction

Pretty much everything I do, from my writing to my day job, is built on a foundation of my hi-fi memory. I have memories from before I could walk or speak. I could tell you every detail of a stormy day my parents insisted on …

The Fascination Diary of Alan Saend (Published 2022)

Alan has a secret: he loves shiny things. It’s a secret because he doesn’t know how to explain it to anyone else. Who could understand? He’d just end up embarrassed, right? So, Alan keeps his stash of gloves, bags, pool toys, and glossy magazines as …

The Trio of Triumph

Comic collaboration with Christopher J. Unger I wrestled with whether or not to even mention this here, let alone elevate it to being part of the official record, but it’s been known and (technically) online for decades, so…The Trio of Triumph is a comic strip …

Day of Freedom

Before the Benedict Mafia, before the Warlord turned life in Woodvale upside-down, aspiring writer Ron Bently was eager to find out what surprises awaited him in his eighth grade year at Woodvale High. Unfortunately, the first of these turns out to be his best friend, …

Doll Universe

The Dyn’taren Guard These books for young readers (roughly ages 7 and up) are all about Fluffy Dog and his team of talking animals, who hide in the world by pretending to be stuffed toys. They use magical artifacts from the planet Dyn’taren to solve …

Woodvale Universe

Children of Woodvale Taking place in the fictional town of Woodvale, New Jersey, this series chronicles the lives and adventures of teenagers growing up surrounded by periods of intermittent warfare between gangs and vigilantes, driven by powerful technology of dubious origin. Different books visit the …

Night Driver, Daydreamer

These are memoirs from my student days at Bard College. Especially in 2006 and 2007, when I was working a phone-answering job that didn’t even allow me to read news on the Internet when things got slow, I put my better-than-average memory to use scribbling …