John Bushore is a novelist and short story writer of speculative fiction and has also published poetry. A three-time winner of the James B. Baker Award (2002, 2004, and 2005), his stories and poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Two of his stories ("Going Native" and "Monkey Bottom") are included in the Exotic Gothic textbook/anthologies, part of an international studies course in Gothic and Horror Literature.
He also writes for children as "MonkeyJohn," the author of the fantasy poetry book What's Under The Bed? and The Spacemonkey Adventures, serialized in the quarterly Beyond Centauri magazine.
2002 James Award winner – Mare Insanitatus
2003 James Award winner – Rejection Letter
2003 James Nominee – A Sea of Stars
2004 Voted among top 10 internet authors, P&E Poll
2004 James Nominee – On the Back of the Moon
2005 James Award winner – Render unto Karak
2006 James Nominee – Frustrated Fiction Writers
2006 CNU writer's conference 3rd Place – first ch. of The Gandy Dancer
2006 Friends in Dark Places listed as "notable novel" in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
2007 James Nominee – Portrait of a weeping soldier
Books and novels
What’s Under the Bed? (Children’s book ) – Sam’s Dot Pub, 2003
Friends in Dark Places (Paranormal Suspense novel) – Sam's Dot Pub, 2006
The Prisoners of Gender (Paranormal romance novel) - Eternal Press, 2009
"...and Remember that I Am a Man." (Historical novel) - MonkeyJohn Books, 2011
Wolfwraith (Paranormal mystery novel) - Damnation Books, 2011 - Shadow Fletcher Series
Boy in Chains (Young reader - Historical novel) - MonkeyJohn Books, 2011
Necessary Evil (Historical novel) - MonkeyJohn Books, 2012
Going Native (Short stories - Horror) - MonkeyJohn Books, 2012
Wendigo (Paranormal suspense novel) - MonkeyJohn Books, 2013 - Shadow Fletcher Series
