James Jassy

JOHN JOSS—writer

I’m a New York-published author—Ballantine (nonfiction, purchased from Presidio) and Morrow

(fiction). In my career I’ve written ~20 novels and nonfiction books, and created >1,500 projects

for major corporations and media worldwide: journalism, PR, technical writing, ad copywriting,

business writing, film/TV screenwriting, and diverse radio and television broadcasting.

My nonfiction books include STRIKE (Ballantine, New York—the U.S. Naval Strike Warfare

Center (Fallon, near Reno, Nevada), WINNING ON THE WIND (The Practical Press) the edited

memoir of world soaring champion George Moffat. INCIDENTS: Surviving Life on the Edge

(The Practical Press), my own autobiography/memoir review of fifty unusual incidents in my life

and times around the world.

My novels include SIERRA SIERRA, a flying novel (Wm. Morrow, New York), A FULL

ACCOUNTING (The Practical Press), co-written with Viktor Belenko, about a U.S. Navy pilot

who is downed in ’Vietnam, and extracted to the USSR to train Soviet pilots—one of 614

POW/MIAs lost in SEAsia not repatriated, THE RED PRINCESS (The Practical Press): young

San Francisco girl, abused by her parents, suffers from OCD (cutting, burning herself); an

autodidact, she teaches herself to read and write, finally confronts her powerful father after her

mother dies (pen name ‘Julia Wood’), and the trilogy LOULOU, CHAMELEON and SIMIA.

LOULOU: Wendy Wilson, mentored in Paris by a great French actress, then trained in the U.S. as

a pastry chef, returns to Paris with deadly results—she kills an American movie director in a posh

Paris hotel, ending in a chase from Paris to New York to Los Angeles.

CHAMELEON: Wendy moves to San Francisco, meets an estate lawyer, helps him create three

wild but unsuccessful scams on rich, powerful men, after which the pair try to acquire five million-

dollar bearer bonds in the law-office safe; 90,000 words, complete.

SIMIA: Wendy moves to London; Brit anthropologist and American F/X expert won Oscars for the

‘2001’ simian opening scene; ripped professionally, they find/train/costume her as a missing-link

simian, ‘discover’ her on Ayers Rock to ‘prove’ reverse evolution and hoax the world scientific

community; 91,000 words, complete.

My screenplays include ORDEAL BY FIRE, in which a young beautician, treating a client’s hair

with a flammable substance, is smoking; her face and head catch fire and she suffers devastating,

disfiguring burns; a Hollywood special-effects maestro recreates her as beautiful with a prosthesis

that enables her to resume her life in public, and CHAMELEON (see above).

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THE WORKING WORLD

I’ve created projects for Aga (Sweden), AMD, Apple, Bank of America, BMW (Germany), Canon

(Japan), Cisco Systems, EMI (UK), Ford, Fujitsu (Japan), Google, Grundig (Germany), Grumman

Aircraft, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Kodak, Monsanto, Motorola, Raytheon, Schlumberger

(France), SKF (Sweden), Stanford University, Unisys , United Airlines, the U.S. Navy.

My media features include the London and New York TIMES, ARPA, AOPA PILOT

AUTOMOBILE, AVIATION WEEK, San Francisco CHRONICLE, San Jose MERCURY NEWS,

CAR & DRIVER, COMPUTER DESIGN, CYCLE WORLD, DATAMATION, DEFENSE

ELECTRONICS, FLYING, SCIENCE, SOARING, YACHTING.

Documentaries: TECHNOLOGY UPDATE—CBS Radio (600 broadcasts), SEMICONDUCTOR

TEST (script/direction), THE LAST MOFFETT AIR SHOW (m/c), GREAT GARDENS OF

ENGLAND (VO), BRITAIN: THE GARDEN KINGDOM (VO), ENGLISH COTTAGE AND

COUNTRY GARDENS, THE GARDENS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’S WINE COUNTRY

(VO—PBS, the BBC, France 2),