John Howes - Science Fiction & Fantasy Author

Forgive me, Father Christmas. I have sinned. It has been several months since my last blog post. As penance, I will use five adverbs and a s...

  Finally, Vega Rising is unleashed on the world. The second part of the Nifaran Chronicles picks up where part one left off. Jem is finally...

  When writing the Nifaran Chronicles, I had a lot of characters to name. Over two hundred! While many of these only get a single line of di...

So where am I at with the grand torrent of novels I'm unleashing on the world? Well, it's more of a dribble, really. Stone and Scept...

Okay, full confession, this post has nothing to do with the famous quote by William Faulkner that “In writing, you must kill all your darlin...

In the words of the dreadful opening song from the ill-fated Enterprise TV show: "It's been a long road Gettin' from there to h...

It's almost time. After 7 years and 170,000 words, the first part of the Nifaran Chronicles is almost ready to launch. It will soon be t...

Kill your darlings? Not in the Lord of the Rings; give your darlings several chapters. Tom Bombadil, a character who appears in a couple o...

The Magnificent Seven. Yes, I know it was based on The Seven Samurai, but the western sticks in my mind. The story of a rag-tag bunch of g...

There can be only one! The mid-eighties fantasy film may have too many damsels-in-distress, some ropey special effects and an Egyptian wit...