Author Bio
J Franklin’s story is similar to the story of the protagonist, Kyle Stone. It was derived from his life experiences. Those life experiences started when he lost his father to suicide at a tender age. He lived with several families before the Army called to him as a place to find a home for a few years and serve his country. After a year of intense training in combat engineering, he was given an opportunity to become an Officer. After months of training, J Franklin earned his commission as an Infantry Officer. He was just eighteen years old. He served during the Vietnam war and received injuries that would later become crippling.
Returning home, building a business, and starting a family, his future looked great. What followed was many years of the strangest events leading up to betrayal, greed, corporate corruption, witchcraft, paranormal and more. Those years were the craziest in his life. Thus Thread had to be written.
J Franklin Payne spent many years in the Entertainment business as a manager of rock stars, along with years as a Concert and Movie Producer. Honored to be Producer of USO Entertainment, Bob Hope, serving our military delivering the best entertainment to those deployed throughout the world.
By producing a USO Show, it is not only selecting and negotiating with artists and management, formatting the show from music to comedy to dance. It is also the logistics of traveling.
He saw sick, terminally ill children throughout his travels and decided to do something to help them. He chose the magic of moviemaking to reach out to them. They would make them the Star of their movies. In doing this, the results were more than we could have asked for, totally amazing for these children, and it gave them a will to live again.
During these years, J Franklin Payne founded ‘The United States Entertainment Force,’ a nonprofit charity serving the USA military and their families for the past twenty-five years. In addition, they have the ‘Hopes and Dreams Project,’ which was also for sick children. We gave them life through the magic of moviemaking.
Looking back at his life, it seemed necessary to take the time from his home in California with his wife Lynn and dog Duke and finish writing his story, Thread.
It weaved through a time in his life when he was surrounded by those consumed by greed, corruption, and deceit as they graveled for what they could steal from what was not theirs.
In simpler times to the present, they look back and shake their heads and be thankful they are still alive and still have time to enjoy their happiness.
Today they keep looking for hope and love for everyone.
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