John Edward Lawson is an author, editor and poet living in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. He is the author of nine books of fiction and poetry, and seven chapbooks. Over 500 of his poems, stories, and articles have been published in magazines, anthologies, literary journals, and newspapers worldwide. John was a winner of the 2001 Fiction International Emerging Writers Competition; in addition to being a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (2006, Superior Achievement in Poetry) and the Wonderland Award for Bizarro Fiction (2007, collected fiction), other award nominations include two for the Rhysling Award, two for the Dwarf Stars Award, and the Pushcart Prize.
John is also a founding editor of Raw Dog Screaming Press. He spent four years as editor-in-chief of The Dream People online literary journal of bizarro fiction and poetry. Other editorial projects include three print anthologies, four e-anthologies, and freelance work for such companies as National Lampoon and Double Dragon Publishing.
His hobbies include travel, games of strategy, and collecting Hong Kong comic books. He has an intense interest in films. During the 1990s he kicked around in the DC industrial-electro-goth scene in the band Dead Letter Office and owned Rack and Ruin Studio. He has been involved in the production of numerous short films, including award winners Party Girl and Uberman: An Experiment in Consciousness. Director Jayson Densman has collaborated with John for years spawning a trilogy of PoVids derived from his poetry.
Visit his Amazon author page at http://www.amazon.com/John-Edward-Lawson/e/B001K7P9VW/ or find him on social media at the links below. He posts Twitter fiction daily based on suggestions you tweet to him, and is a columnist at http://inveteratemediajunkies.com/
Contacting John:
E-Mail: johnlawsonauthor (at) gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnEdwardLawsonAuthor
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/33938.John_Edward_Lawson
Google+: https://plus.google.com/116810125880886848188/about
Instagram: http://instagram.com/bizarroguy#
MySpace: https://new.myspace.com/hellmonger
Tumblr: http://bizarrowriter.tumblr.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/bizarroguy
Permission is granted to freely use the above photograph for promotional or press purposes.
I am extremely inspired along with your writing talents as neatly as with the structure on your blog. Is that this a paid subject matter or did you customize it your self? Either way keep up the nice quality writing, it is uncommon to look a nice weblog like this one these days..