Steven Philip Jones is the author of King of Harlem, a print-on-demand mystery-adventure novel published by Writers Club Press at iUniverse.com.  King of Harlem is the first in a new series of novels that will feature Jones’ detective team, a retired Chicago Cubs pitcher named Sassafras Winters and Winters’ valet, Chinaman.

Jones is a 1990 graduate of the University of Iowa, where he earned a B.A. in journalism and religion.  Jones also studied film, film production, and broadcast production at Iowa, and was accepted into Iowa’s prestigious Writers’ Workshop Master of Fine Arts program.

Jones’ previous writing credits include: two young adult novels for Todd McFarland Production, featuring their popular Spawn character; over 60 comic books, including the original series Nightlinger, Tatters, and Wolverstone and Davis (originally published as Street Heroes 2005), adaptations of the films or novels Reanimator, Alien Nation, Invaders From Mars, Dracula, and Carmilla, as well as a critically-acclaimed series of adaptations of stories by noted American weird writer, H.P. Lovecraft; and the introduction for Reanimator: Tales of Herbert West, a paperback anthology of Lovecraft stories which Jones also edited for Malibu Graphics.  Jones has instructed classes on comic book writing at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, and has written an essay about comic book writing for the 2001 edition of Writers on Writing.

Jones’ most recent writing credits include a 48-page graphic novel about the life and campaigns of Genghis Khan, two Sherlock Holmes pastiches pitting the Great Detective against The Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll, and essays for The Sherlock Holmes Reader magazine.

Jones has lived most of his life in Cedar Rapids, where he makes his home with his family.

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