James Howard (writer)


James Howard is a screenwriter, poet, computer game creator, and author.

Biography

James Howard worked from 1980 to 2010 as a writer for Hallmark Cards, where he created the multi-player game You Guessed It! for the CompuServe network and the first known e-greetings of the pre-Internet era for local cable and videotex systems.
Howard's screenwriting credits include Big Bad Love and Dawn Anna, both co-written with his brother, the actor/director Arliss Howard.
As Jim Howard, he has published poems in small journals such as New Letters and The Texas Observer, and in the anthologies From A to Z: 200 Contemporary American Poets, Voices From The Interior, and Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. An excerpt from his screenplay for Big Bad Love was published as a poem in . His essays and short prose pieces have been published in Paragraphs magazine and .
He is author of the Hallmark books Little Glimpses of Good and I'll Be Me and You Be You under the name Jim Howard; a book of political humor, under the pseudonym Roland Boyle; and the blogs "Spulge Nine" and "Tea Bastard."
Howard is the father of three children and is married to the writer Penny Krugman. They live in Kansas City.