Meet local author and Augusta rocker, John Stoney Cannon who will be signing his new book, VHS: A Video Horror Story!
From the author of Hooked Onna Feelin and pop cultire series, Sorry We Missed Your Call, comes a tale romance, nostalgia, and horror!
Set in the month of October 1986 in Hoboken, New Jersey, Stoney's first full-length tale of fright fiction, VHS: A Video Story follows club rocker turned video rental store manager Benny as he balances a later in life romance, customers, and a killer video. This dialog heavy read filled with loose language and everyday people is a time travel bit of fiction loaded with pop culture references and sarcastic nods to the future. Sabrina finally gets the attention of long-time crush Benny despite his brain being distracted by semi-street urchin Di, his mother Maria, boss Gerry, and a mysterious deadly VHS rental tape. All set to references to pre-1986 tunes by New Jersey-related artists!
About the Author:
Since barely being able to walk, John "Stoney" Cannon has been a pop culture junkie taking an early love of drawing and the radio and turning it into a lifetime of creativity. Blessed with early life as a military dependent, Stoney's youth was a journey filled with a massive love for music, sports and visual creativity leading to his first summer job in Junior High in a printing factory in Germany. An addiction for music magazines and rock and roll biographies morphing into songwriting and music journalism. With time taken up running media company Lokal Loudness, playing in bands, co-hosting radio, internet and television wrestling programs and running several businesses, visual creativity took a back seat for the better part of thirty years. Not until the pandemic did Stoney return to painting following his first attempt at writing his own book.
Since the release of music history book Hooked Onna Feelin in 2001, it has been music and wrestling that have taken a back seat, this time to painting. In the past three years Stoney's creations have found homes across the world as well as on many an area gallery wall including at the Arts & Heritage Center where his huge painting "Delilah" took the prize for Best in Show for his first Fall Into Art showing.
In the spring of 2024, the first edition in Stoney's book series, Sorry We Missed Your Call: Glam arrived followed by the second edition dedicated to Rock and Roll Horror Cinema in the fall. After a record number of album reviews for international site Sleaze Roxx, Stoney spent the summer finishing up his first fiction novel VHS: A Video Horror Story set to be released on September 19, 2025.
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