Motivated by his lifelong love of reading, John M. Olsen writes about ordinary people doing extraordinary things and hopes to entertain and inspire others. His father’s library started him on this journey as a teenager, and he now owns and expands that library to pass his passion on to the next generation of avid readers.
He loves to create things, whether writing novels or short stories or working in his secret lair equipped with dangerous power tools. In all cases, he applies engineering principles and processes to the task at hand, often in unpredictable ways with unusual results. He usually prefers “Renaissance Man” to “Mad Scientist” as a goal and aesthetic. It’s a relief you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, as witnessed by John’s meager skills playing a ukulele he built just because he could.
You can often find him at writing events and comic conventions in and around Utah where he sometimes breaks out steampunk costuming. While there, he hawks a range of anthologies and novels spanning multiple genres. He is an award-winning author, having won first place in the Dragon Comet short story contest in 2018.
He lives in Utah with his lovely wife and a variable number of mostly grown children and a constantly changing subset of extended family.
Hemelein Publications works:
- “Working on Cloud Nine” in Trace the Stars
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