So Long Superman, So Long Batman, Here Comes The Fat Man. In a world of corruption and wickedness, a world where your next meal may be your last, there’s only one man who can taste the difference between what you can eat and what will kill you. He’s the super-sized, super-talented FBI agent whose specialty is food security. He’s a bona fide card-carrying superhero unlike any other. He’s the fat man with the super taste buds and super immunity. He’s Timothy Blanchard, the titular hero of The Taster. The Taster starts with a meal and a murder. A whirlwind of meals and murders follow. It’s enough to make you ravenously hungry and furiously turning pages.

Jonathan Hickman is an attorney who lives in Georgia. Struggling with dyslexia and learning disabilities, Jonathan grew up watching movies and learning to read. Movies taught him the classics, but he was introduced to literature by his father who read to him often primarily concentrating on the works of Steinbeck and Hemingway. Still, both Jonathan and his father considered Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes to be their favorite novel, just call it a guilty pleasure. By high school, Jonathan had learned to read well enough to complete comic books and to skim larger works of fiction. He found text books and non-fiction to be easier to manage given their layout and devoured them staying up all night before an exam to digest every word of text. Eventually, he graduated as valedictorian and went onto college at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, where he achieved degrees in English and Political Science. After attending law school at the University of Memphis, Jonathan returned home to Georgia, where he practiced law privately for eight years. He now serves as the Public Defender for the State Court of Coweta County.