Jeff Howe

Author and Screenwriter

Saint Louis, Missouri

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November 2015

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About Jeff

True things about me:

I once worked as an usher at the last porno theater in St. Louis County, Missouri, to supplement my salary working in a medical research lab. I regret one of these jobs to this day.

A professor talked me out of a career in academia by describing it as a sheltered workshop. Still not sure what that says about either of us.

If I could always fly into Long Beach when I go out to Southern California, I'd be a happy man.

I have written in one capacity or another my entire adult life. Of all the various kinds I've done, screenwriting is my favorite, and not just because my first attempt won contests. I like the way it lets me juggle pieces of story in my head. Try that with a novel and you'll hurt yourself.

Also, the receptions at film festivals have waaaay better caterers than the ones at writers' conferences. Is that Stilton on those little things over there? I think that's Stilton.

I write a lot of speculative genres (science, fantasy, alternate history) and some realistic stories and things that teeter uneasily between those poles. I can't call it magic realism because I don't believe in magic. Suggestions?

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Flat-rate Frank Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Historical In the closeted Midwestern 70s, sixteen-year-old Frank's best friend dies during a stupid stunt, leaving Frank to obsessively revisit events before the accident in an increasingly desperate effort to understand their relationship and his culpability. Nicholl Fellowship top 50 2019.
Medicine Show Blues Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Drama When a Depression-era traveling medicine show in the Mississippi Delta starts to fall apart, its con-man impresario bargains with the devil to make the show's snake oil do what it claims on the label.
Persona Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror Years after the car crash that killed her husband and put her in a wheelchair, a black artist receives an experimental implant to make her walk again, paid for by her wealthy, white father-in-law--but to him, rehab is only a pathway to revenge.
Starcrossed Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Romance When a sheltered scientist hires a rootless space pilot for a week-long ride-share to Earth, their years of solitude collide with love--even as the greedy schemes of the scientist’s father threaten to knock them out of orbit.
Not Even Past Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi ⋄ Animation When an ancient race of intelligent dinosaurs reappears in the half-thawed Antarctic of 2267, a rogue dinosaur scientist and a teenage human girl must overcome their mutual suspicion to keep their species from blundering into Armageddon.
Dance Around the Dying Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi ⋄ Historical In an alternate, high-tech 1930, Thomas Jefferson's immortal daughter seeks to prove her equally ageless mother was murdered--and discovers her mother worked as a secret agent in a shadow war between Tesla and the Emperor of China.
Cover Crop Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi An unadventurous botanist on an isolated farm planet stumbles back into a relationship with an old flame -- and onto a secret her corporate bosses will kill to keep.
Robo4ce Budget: $5M - $10M | Family A smart-but-shy thirteen-year old thinks she's finally found her niche after she co-founds a robotics team-- but she’ll need to learn about more than coding to keep teenage (and grown-up) jealousies from pulling it apart.
The Coldest Horizon Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Adventure After a disaster traps a scientist alone at the South Pole, the ghosts of four Antarctic explorers help her prepare for and then make the thousand-mile trek across the ice to safety.