Josh’s writing career began somewhere around the age of 6 when he dutifully “paraphrased” the plot from Empire Strikes Back and called it his own. Managing to narrowly avoid copyright litigation, this wake-up call put Josh on the straight and narrow, and he decided to try writing original stories. His first atrocious novels, penned clandestinely during class in Middle School, still live in a box somewhere–hundreds of pages hand written in pencil.
Josh published his first short story in 1992, a year before graduating high school. “The Finger”, printed by Lost Worlds Magazine was about a secret cabal of world leaders who orchestrated all major global events. Josh would later regain his enthusiasm for politics and secret societies, but until the late 90′s Josh wasted his most fertile years writing bad sci-fi, chasing skirts, and trying to become a rock star. Everything changed in 1999 when he took a six week tour through India. That ancient country got its hooks in him, and Josh milled out his first real novel, The Adventures of the Imagination of Periphery Stowe.
Periphery Stowe was published in 2004 through a start-up publisher (BAM Publications) in San Francisco. Since then Josh has delved into screenwriting, film production, and finally found a welcoming world in Comics. His first creator-owned mini series, Fiction Clemens, published by Ape Entertainment, attained critical acclaim from all directions. Josh has been published in several comic anthologies and literary magazines, and is currently working on half-a-dozen new projects, including Sky Pirates of Neo Terra. Image Comics launched the first of this 5-issue series in September, ’09.
On the literary side, Josh recently released a new novel, Deadwind Sea. He has three more novels on the horizon, in various states of completion.
His first short film, Adam Funn (a collaboration with talented and dear friends), premiered in the city he considers his home: Missoula, MT on August 22, 2009. These days Josh spends his non-writing hours co-producing the feature film, Saving For the Day, with the movie’s writer/director John Nilles.