John Skipp was born on May 20,1957 and is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer.
14 Facts About John Skipp
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John Skipp collaborated with Craig Spector on multiple novels, and has collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow.
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John Skipp worked as editor-in-chief of both Fungasm Press and Ravenous Shadows.
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John Skipp's first published short story was in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1982, called "The Long Ride".
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John Skipp co-authored with Craig Spector his first novel, The Light at the End, which was purchased by Bantam Books in 1984 and published in 1986.
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John Skipp co-wrote five more original horror novels with Spector over the next six years as well as a novelization of the 1985 cult film Fright Night which managed to be published before their previously sold novel The Light at the End.
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John Skipp spent four years unsuccessfully attempting to produce his first original feature film, Peekaboo and he wrote the screenplays for the 2011 collection Sick Chick Flicks, including Rose.
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John Skipp wrote the screenplay for The Long Last Call, and one novel: The Emerald Burrito of Oz released by Babbage Press in 2000, later re-released in 2010 by the bizarro fiction company Eraserhead Press.
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Under the publishing house Friendly Firewalk Press, John Skipp self-published Conscience and Stupography.
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John Skipp returned to mass market horror with the novel The Long Last Call and teamed up with Cody Goodfellow for a group of novels as well as many short stories and scripts.
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John Skipp's editing career began with some mammoth anthologies for Black Dog and Leventhal.
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John Skipp is in charge of scheduling four genre titles a month which will begin starting at the end of 2011.
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John Skipp is directing a short film titled Stay at Home Dad which he is co-directing with Andrew Kasch.
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John Skipp is working on the film version of his script Rose as a 3-D puppet musical.