John Hornor Jacobs

John Hornor Jacobs is an award-winning multi-genre American novelist from Arkansas. He is known for writing in a variety of genres from survival epics to teen-oriented fantasies to a combination of steampunk and Roman combinations such as “The Incorruptibles” series. The Arkansas born Jacobs is a senior art director and partner at Cranford Co., an advertising agency in Little Rock Arkansas, the town in which he was born. Jacobs’s first novel was a southern Gothic thriller titled “Southern Gods.” The novel won the Darrel Award and won a nomination for the Bram Stoker Award for Excellence. His next novel was a zombie novel titled “This Dark Earth” that Brian Keene said was the best zombie novel he had ever read in years. He went on to write the mesmerizing young adult novel series “Incarcerado” the first novel of which was “The Twelve Fingered Boy.” He continued his fine streak when he shifted to fantasy novel with the “Incorruptibles” series of novels of which the first novel got a nomination for the Morningstar and Gemmell Awards. Jacob’s fiction has appeared in the likes of Apex Magazine, Playboy Magazine, and Cemetery Dance while his essays have been featured on Huffington Post and CBS Weekly. Jacob currently lives in the south of the US and loves to spend most of his time writing or thinking about his next title.