J. Goodson Dodd

J. Goodson Dodd was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He has often remarked that he showed a particular aptitude creative storytelling and invention. At the age of twelve with the aid of a childhood friend he produced his first short film and continued to write screenplays throughout highschool, producing them on a shoestring budget with a small cabal of close friends. While attending college at the University of Houston he steered his focus toward prose work. He eventually graduated with a degree in English Literature with a minor concentration in history.

His first novel, “A Dark Tomorrow,” was published in January of 2009 after spending a solid month in seclusion following a self-proclaimed personal crisis following an explosion of overwrought relationship drama. In retrospect he feels such a description is a gross overstatement of the severity of the situation.

He followed up with his sophomore effort “The Song Before Nightfall” in July of 2011, a fantasy novel in the vein of his major influences such as Robert E. Howard. Later that year he published his third novel as part of the NaNoWriMo initiative entitled “Grave Danger” which served as a deconstruction of the vampire noir genre.

2015 saw the beginning of a planned trilogy of spy novels featuring protagonist Madeline McCallister in "One Fate For Failure." He remarked that the project was an attempt to filter the sexist tropes of the genre through the lens of a feminist characters with ties to LGBT issues.

His sixth project, a western entitled "Blood at Sunrise" is expected to arrive in summer 2016.

In addition to his prose work, J. Goodson Dodd also co-hosts the POP AND SCHLOCK PODCAST, a weekly internet radio program dedicated to pop culture, film, and b-movie insanity.

He currently resides in Houston with a basset hound of unstable temperament.