Listen to your muse and unleash your creative journey.
Don’t ignore your muse—it’s the voice urging you to create. Following mine led from drawing the Lost Cactus comic strip to writing The Powers That Be science fiction novels. What began as playful comic ideas evolved into a rich, mythic universe exploring humanity’s destiny. Whatever your muse whispers—paint, write, build—listen to it before it fades. You never know where it might take you.
A Meditation on Watercolors: Tips and Techniques for Artists
Discover the art of watercolors with tips on technique, paper, brushes, and inspiration to spark your creative flow.
The big idea: humankind’s future in a crowded universe.
From Lost Cactus comics to The Powers That Be trilogy, my creative journey has always circled one big idea: humankind’s future in a crowded universe. Across three novels—The Golden Ellipse, The Lost Ship, and The Blue Spark—I project a compelling and familiar saga filled with AI, alien disclosure, conspiracy theories, posthumanism, and the choices that will shape our cosmic destiny.
The angels and demons of traditional vs. self-publishing.
This blog explores the career-defining choice between pursuing self-publishing and assuming the risk/reward consequences, or querying agents in hopes of landing a traditional publishing deal and reaping the undeniable benefits in return for your creative soul.
The essential elements of time travel.
“The Essential Elements of Time Travel” by John Hopkins. Originally published in the January 2023 online edition of Mystery and Suspense Magazine—a superb resource for all things science fiction and fantasy.
Learn how to enhance your storytelling with musical references and create the soundtrack behind the story.
Discover how music enhances storytelling, explore Ready Player One’s iconic references, and listen to the soundtracks that shaped The Powers That Be sci-fi trilogy and beyond.
My creative journey from comic strip creator to sci-fi novelist.
Autobiographical reflections on my Author Journey from professional graphic designer to comic strip creator to science fiction novelist with tips, tricks, and words of wisdom on writing and publishing learned along the way.
Debating what next to read? Here’s a summary of The Lost Ship with character spotlights, excerpts, and bonus content.
The Lost Ship book summary with excerpts and character introductions providing a sneak peek at the novel’s twists and turns from a dystopian day-after chaos to cloak-and-dagger intrigue to a transformational revelation in the Amazon jungle.
Here’s a summary of The Golden Ellipse narrative and character spotlights with sneak peeks and excerpts.
Read a synopsis, excerpts, and character introductions from The Golden Ellipse, Book One in an epic science fiction trilogy that opens the door to humankind’s destiny in a crowded universe.
Discover the new and improved John Hopkins Author & Artist website.
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