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If I had to describe my writing
in one sentence I would call it: "humorous, pulp, fun, SF
which is bubblegum for the brain!" (Okay it wouldbe one long
sentence....) I strive to make my books enjoyable reads.
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Baxter Moon Galactic Scout, my first SF YA will be hititng book stores on April 1st! for Brown Barn Books. | |
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Blue
Haired Bombshell,
out Dec 4th. 2007. The fifth book, Zach Johnson,
must find
the assassin who murdered Sexy Sprocket and two other members of the
World Council. His investigation leads him to the Moon-and to a tall,
sensuous, blue-haired beauty named Lea who possesses psychic powers,
and powerful ambitions...
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The Frost Haired Vixen: was released on Dec 4th, 2006. This is the fourth book in the Zachary Nixon Johnson hair color "trilogy". In the year 2060, Zach Johnson, the world's only freelance private investigator, tackles his strangest case yet-solving the murders of two elves at the North Pole. Santana Clausa, the micro-mini skirt clad bombshell and frost-haired mutant who runs the Pole hires Zach to stop the killer or killers before they strike again, destroying the Holiday for billions. If the media gets whiff of the murders at the "happiest, safest place on Earth," mass panic is sure to ensue-and that's never a good thing. With the happiness of billions at stake, Zach and HARV (his A.I. companion wired directly to his brain-yes it was as painful as it sounds) will match wits, muscle, and technology against a bevy of superhuman females, a mutant elf with an attitude, killer robots, and even a couple of nerds with an agenda.
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Have you ever wanted to be a Working Daze character?
Well now you can. Just tell
us why you should be a Working Daze character. On
Feb 1, Kyle
and I will pick a winner. (Kyle says bribes and stuff
appreciated.) The winner can send Kyle an image so
he can
draw them into a cartoon in March. Plus the winner gets a book and a signed copy of the cartoon!
The winner is Rebecca Hastings! |
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| My Demons in the closet finished 2nd in
Janurary's DC's
comics Zuda competition.
Think of it as American Idol for comic books -- sort of.
Demons
is a fun story about a boy who learns his sister's closet is a nexus
for a group of powerful beings from ano
Check
it
out please. Demons is drawn by the very talent, Amy Watson! You can send a comment to me here. |
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The RadioActive Red Head: the third in the hair color trilogy (released in Dec 2005 and co-written with Larry Ganem.) It's about rock stars, the music industry and of course controlling the world. Zach and HARV (well sort of) try to protect (well sort of) rock star Sexy Sprockets from the world. The question is does the world need protection from her? |
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A Man's Guide to Babies is my newest gift book. A fun and handy gift and guide book for the new dad. The book has been featured on The Daily Buzz TV show. I wrote this book because I wanted to show dads if I could survive being a new dad so could they. It's filled with mostly helpful hints that can be invaluable (or at least kind of useful) to all new dads. Plus, it lets them know they are not alone in their confusion and they can do it! Here are a few tips for new dads. |
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A Man's Guide to Pregnancy: a fun look at pregnancy to help out new expecting fathers.... Published by Metropolis Ink. |
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Working Daze: a collection of cartoons from John's comic strip Working Daze , syndicated by United Media.(Drawn by Kyle Miller.) Working Daze is about the trial and tribulations of working with other people. |
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The Plutonium Blonde: a humorous SF romp written with Larry Ganem. It's about, Zachary Nixon Johnson, the last PI on Earth as he tackles a crazed fembot out to destroy the world. Published by Daw books. |
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The Doomsday Brunette: the exciting sequel! Here Zach butts heads (and other things) with four superhuman sisters who are super rich, super gorgeous and just as crazy. Oh, and their dad built a Doomsday Device. |
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HTML 4.0: one of my older, serious books. It's also available in Japanese. |
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The animated video series Captain Fluoride should be appearing soon. It's about a grime fighting tooth paste and is faithful sidekick. It's fun, campy and a bit educational and writing by Jz. |
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I have written 13 episodes of an animated series called Caramel Crew which was being produced by Mobtoons. Caramel Girls is what you'd get if you put the X-men and Josie and Pussy Cats in a blender. They are super hero, rock stars, teen age girls. This project is sort of in limbo, but at least they've already paid me. |
I just did an interview with Pink Raygun. I like this quote from it, "... I miss the kind of science fiction that makes me wonder and tickles the NASA obsessed little kid in me (not in that creepy, inappropriate way). I want science fiction to be fun again. Thank God, I found John Zakour."
2/9/08: I did an audio interview for Adventures in Sci Fi publishing. That was quite fun.
My short story Mate Match appeared in Nature magazine in July as part of their Futures series.
Illusia my YA Fantasy series (written with Liz Keller) has also found a home. It was be an intial release from Meadowhawk Press.
John has written a low budget (5000K - 1M) but fun buddy movie called, Life Long Losers for Foutz Studios. The movie should begin production in early 08.
John writes his own comic strip for United Media Syndicate called Working Daze (drawn by the very patient Kyle Miller.)
In the past John has written for over 50 other comics including: Rugrats, Mother Goose and Grimmy, Bound and Gagged, Dennis the Menace, and yes even Marmaduke.
John wrote the dialog for the frogwares computer game, 80 Days. Here is a quote from the president of Frogwares in an interview for gameboomers.com.
| "...American writer for 80 Days, John Zakour, is an accomplished joke writer and I believe he did some excellent work for the American players." 80 Days is like the George Bush of video games. Some people loved the cheesy humor, other's well, didn't like it all that much. Humor writing is sooooo subjective. Such is the story of my life, some people think I'm quite funny, others don't. Life goes on. |
John "draws" a weekly cartoon "geektoon" for the guys at geek.com.
John has SF short stores in the following collections: Sirius the Dog Star and Gateways.
John has recently written a short story for the anthology entitled Misspelled, which is edited by Julie Czerneda and Martin H Greenberg.
John is writing for the independent SF TV show Realm of the Mind. (More coming "soon".) John is also in earlier production of an animated short series called Bob Brown Baby Boutyhunter.
| John did a book signing in Wegmans in Geneva
NY, in Feburary. There is a picture here. Looks like I will be going to ComicCon NY on Feburary 23rd. (I had to cancel this trip, bummer. :( ) I will be going to ComicCon San Diego in July. Updated, I did two signing sessions at the Mysterious Galaxy booth (they are a cool store). It was great fun. |
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Other Past Appearances:
John is kind of a shy guy and not a big fan of airplanes but still on occasion he will make an appearance, he has been on the Daily Buzz national TV show, he's talked cars for books with the guys from Car Talk and done some TV interviews for Rnews. When WorldCon isn't too far away (Boston, Toronto) he also will attend those conferences. |
John has finished writing Man's Guide to Weddings (with Chuck Schading) which his agent is currently looking for a home for.
John is working on "How to House dad", a fun guide to life as a house dad. John's special guest author on that is model and efficiency nut Shannon Marie Codner. John and Shannon are also working on a couple of other exciting projects stay tuned for details....John is also working on a computer book or two.
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John's Agent is Joshua Bilmes. There are some nice quotes about my book on Joshua's web site. (I especially love the "the best humorous sf title of 2001" - Science Fiction Chronicle)