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History – Fantasy – Supernatural Suspense

​​​​​This web site is dedicated to the legends and lore, characters and history of Jay Veloso Batista’s adventure novels. This is the only place to learn of upcoming releases, understand the tales behind the novels and keep in touch with the author. Exciting adventures await…

Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction!

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The Lost Landers Origins’ Graphic Novel!

Imagine hominins never went extinct— Neanderthals, Denisovans, Floresiensis, Habilis, and more exist among us, hidden for millennia. Keepers of arcane magics and unique technological advances, these human predecessors bide their time, awaiting the return of their malevolent master to lead them in a quest for global domination!

Meanwhile a solitary sensei waits in the astral plane, watching over our universe. As he has in epochs past, Epicurus stands against this regenerated evil … he must seek and recruit world-renown heroes to fight this ancient threat. Only Epic and the Five can save the Universe!

The Lost Landers is a new series from BAMCO TOYS: graphic novels, comic books, middle-grade books, role-playing games, collectible statues, miniatures and toys for ages 6 to 99! Jay Veloso Batista is proud to be a staff writer for the BAMCO projects. Want to know more?

Learn about Norse Legends, Viking history and the craft of writing Fantasy novels

Fantasy Maps Guest Blog

Fantasy Maps Guest Blog

Recently FANTASY MAP SYMBOLS let me submit a guest blog...I chose to write about the differences between making maps for TSR Inc in the 1980s to...

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What’s in a Name?

What’s in a Name?

In my effort to be historically authentic, I adopted medieval names for my Danish and Saxon characters, however, there appears to be lingering...

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Meet the Author

Jay Veloso Batista

I have always been fascinated with history and literature. An imaginative child, I devoured books of all sorts, especially adventure novels by Robert Louis Stephenson (‘Treasure Island,’ ‘Kidnapped’), Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, Barsoom, and Pellucidar’s “Hollow Earth”), Alistair MacLean (‘Substation Zero,’ ‘The Guns of Navarone,’ ‘Where Eagles Dare,’ etc.) the Doc Savage pulp novels and comic books. Told to “find something to read” to stay occupied in class at age 12, I found “1984” on the shelf and began reading Fantasy and Science Fiction works by Tolkien (‘The Hobbit’ and ‘LOTR’), Lieber (‘Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser’), CS Lewis (‘Lion, Witch & Wardrobe’), Azimov, Heinlein, Simak, Lem, the collected works of Phillip K. Dick and many more. At university I studied English Literature and Composition, where I chewed through the classics, earning an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts in English and later a Masters. While still in school I won an award for poetry which came with a cash prize, so important when you are a starving college student, and after graduating I began free-lancing in my spare time during the 1980’s, providing games and defining adventure worlds for TSR, the publisher of ‘AD&D: Advanced Dungeon & Dragons.’

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