Biography
A little more about John Beachem than you probably want to know... but you asked for it.
John was born in Alexandria, Virginia, right about when Generation X came to a halt. A child of the eighties, he was raised on transformers, GI Joe, He-Man, and copious amounts of fantasy and science fiction literature. At a young age he became fascinated by the works of Terry Brooks, Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, and of course, J.R.R. Tolkien.
A true geek in the modern sense (not at all in the traditional sense, as his diet is limited primarily to pizza and fried chicken), he spent his formative years playing video games, role-playing games, and working as an armchair general. He has a great love of cinema, and has seen more movies than can possibly be healthy. His favorites include the works of F.W. Murnau, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, and the Brothers Coen. He has been called a film snob, and has not tried too hard to shed this title.
In an effort to combine his love of cinema and his need to write, he worked for a short time as a film critic, but found that the vocation hurt his appreciation of movies, and abandoned it. Plus he had to watch Britney Spears in "Crossroads", and was irreparably damaged by the experience. His reviews can still be found over at Culture Cartel, and there are some fine writers still working for the site.
These days, he works on The Lorradda Stone series and various short stories a great deal of the time, and generally enjoys life with his beautiful wife, Michelle, and pair of mildly disfunctional felines. He resides in Littleton, Colorado.