# John Vasquez, writer of speculative fiction
> Website of the author John Vasquez, writer of speculative fiction and the Calvin Rex novels.
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## Pages
- [About John](https://www.johnvasquez.net/about.md) - Hi. I'm not crazy about ... well ... About pages. Let's face it. How well can you really get to know me in 500 words or so on a single page? I hope you'll get to know me better as the site grows and as I produce more content. The short version of who I am I grew up in small-ish northern California…
- [What I'm Doing Now](https://www.johnvasquez.net/now.md) - 💡Updated as of March 29, 2026 (This is my Now page, an idea I got from Derek Sivers who also runs nownownow.com and thinks you should build one, too.) Working on Still continuing to work on the first draft of my sci-fi space opera novel, clocking in at close to 31k words and 22 chapters. Fun thing…
- [Recently Read Archive](https://www.johnvasquez.net/recently-read-archive.md) - * 2026 * 2025
- [Recently Read for 2025](https://www.johnvasquez.net/recently-read-for-2025.md) - This is my running list of books I've read or listened to in 2025. Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet: Mamet's essay on what makes good drama, how we dramatize our every-day lives and that the theater, ultimately, is the pinnacle of seeing great drama play out in order to make sense of our own…
- [Recently Read for 2026](https://www.johnvasquez.net/recently-read-for-2026.md) - This is my running list of books I've read or listened to in 2026 Animal Farm Transfomers #25 H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space (Manga edition) Do You Feel Like Writing? A Creative Guide to Artistic Confidence Transformers Vol. 1 (TPB) Transformers Vol. 2 (TPB) Transformers Vol. 3 (TPB) Tran…
- [My Tools](https://www.johnvasquez.net/tools.md) - These are my current tools to help me write. It's possible that may change in the future as I solidify the process, but you can head to that page to learn more about how they all fit together. My tools and my process may not make sense to you, and I'm not advocating them for you, but I'm still figu…

## Posts
- [One More Hug Before Bed](https://www.johnvasquez.net/one-more-hug-before-bed.md) - Week 1 | Reedsy Short Story Contest #344: Stranger than Fiction - Write a story where the traditional laws of time and/or space begin to dissolve.
- [The Ray Bradbury Challenge](https://www.johnvasquez.net/the-ray-bradbury-challenge.md) - A 52-week challenge of writing a short story every week. Will they be good? Who knows? But I write nonetheless.
- [Wasted Time: A Cautionary Tale](https://www.johnvasquez.net/wasted-time-a-cautionary-tale.md) - “Get busy living or get busy dying.” - Andy from The Shawshank Redemption
- [Writing Through the Aches](https://www.johnvasquez.net/writing-through-the-aches.md) - I knew I should have stretched before writing this.
- [Don't Lose Your Dinosaur](https://www.johnvasquez.net/dont-lose-your-dinosaur.md) - In what may be one of the best scenes of "Step Brothers," and that's saying something as almost every scene is pure comedy gold, the venerable Richard Jenkins gives the legendary, and unscripted, dinosaur speech. Let me preface this post by saying that I understand this doesn't apply to all readers…
- [The Struggle Is Real](https://www.johnvasquez.net/the-struggle-is-real.md) - I almost called my site something else. The name came to me one day when I was trying to come up with something clever. A hook. A niche. Then, it hit me. I struggle to write. (Yes! What a niche!) How's this for a site name? The Struggling Writer ... or Author. I ended up buying both domains. And wh…

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