John Skipp

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Skipp
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	May 20, 1957(1957-05-20)
Age	67
Birthplace	Milwaukee
Country	United States
Birth City	Wisconsin
Horoscope	Taurus

John Skipp Biography

John Skipp is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on May 20, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The first short story that Skipp wrote was published in “The Twilight Zone Magazine” in

1982. It was titled “The Long Ride.” He co-wrote along with Craig Spector his first novel, The Light at the End which was bought from Bantam Books in 1984 and was published in 1986. The book sold more than one million copies across the world. He wrote five more original horror novels together with Spector in the following six years. He also wrote an adaptation of the 1985 cult movie Fright Night (based on Tom Holland’s script) that was released before their earlier published book The Light at the End.

In the house of publishing Friendly Firewalk Press, Skipp self-published Conscience (a novella) as well as Stupography (a non-fiction critique of culture). Cemetery Dance Publications released Mondo Zombie in May of 2006 and it was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology (tying with Joe R. Lansdale’s Retro-Pulp Tales). The author returned to mass market horror with his book The Long Last Call and collaborated along with Cody Goodfellow for a group of novels (Jake’s Wake, The Day Before, Spore) and numerous scripts and stories. The book was released in December of 2008. Skipp published an e-novel as well as an audiobook Opposite Sex, with an alias “Gina McQueen,” through the publisher Ravenous Romance.

In 2011, e-publisher Literary Partners Group (owners of Ravenous Romance) announced that Skipp would be the editor-in-chief of their new horror/thriller e-publishing imprint named Ravenous Shadows. He is in charge of scheduling four genre titles a month which will begin starting at the end of 2011. The innovation of Ravenous Shadows will be shorter books that can be read in the time it takes to watch a feature film.

His editing career began with some mammoth anthologies for Black Dog and Leventhal (Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead, Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within, and Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed). He edited #4 of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction which led to him becoming an acquiring editor at Eraserhead Press, and forming his own imprint, Fungasm Press. The first books from Fungasm Press came out October 2011 (Haunt by Laura Lee Bahr and I Am Genghis Cum by Violet LeVoit).

He created the screenplay for The Long Last Call (that was later published during the late 2000s) as well as one novel, The Emerald Burrito of Oz (co- written with Marc Levinthal) released by Babbage Press in 2000. The book was then republished in the year 2010 by the bizarro-fiction business Eraserhead Press.

John Skipp Net Worth

John Skipp is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Skipp 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

I Skipp and Spector moved to Hollywood where they created the screenplay for the 1989 film A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. They broke up from their writing partnership following the and Spector stopped writing for about nine years , while doing other things and going to a guerilla film academy.

Skipp and Spector published their modern , post-Romero-style zombie anthology, Book of the Dead in 1989 and Bantam. The anthology included Stephen King (the first printing of his short story “Home Delivery”), Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Laymon, David J. Schow, Robert R. McCammon and many more famous names of the horror genre.

During this time, he edited what was originally called The Very Last Book of the Dead, which was eventually released as Mondo Zombie in 2006 from Cemetery Dance Publications. He 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 (a film he is currently working on).

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