Harm for the Holidays

Jonathan LaPoma is an award-winning, best-selling novelist, optioned screenwriter, songwriter, and poet from Buffalo, NY. In 2005, he received a BA in history and a secondary education credential from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and he traveled extensively throughout the United States and Mexico after graduating. These experiences have become the inspiration for much of his writing, which often explores themes of alienation and misery as human constructions that can be overcome through self-understanding and the acceptance of suffering.

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Jonathan LaPoma is an award-winning, best-selling novelist, optioned screenwriter, songwriter, and poet from Buffalo, NY. In 2005, he received a BA in history and a secondary education credential from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and he traveled extensively throughout the United States and Mexico after graduating. These experiences have become the inspiration for much of his writing, which often explores themes of alienation and misery as human constructions that can be overcome through self-understanding and the acceptance of suffering.

LaPoma has written five novels, fifteen screenplays, and hundreds of songs and poems. His screenplays have won over 160 awards/honors at various international screenwriting competitions, and his black comedy script HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS was optioned by Warren Zide along with Wexlfish Pictures (AMERICAN PIE, FINAL DESTINATION, THE BIG HIT) in July 2017. Barnes and Noble selected LaPoma's dark, disturbing coming-of-age novel THE SUMMER OF CRUD to its B&N Press Presents list (February/March 2018) where, "B&N Press editors have handpicked the best books from emerging authors and new voices." LaPoma's novel DEVELOPING MINDS: AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY is a #1 Amazon Best Seller ("Satire" and "Urban Life" Kindle categories), and it won the 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes (Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction category) and won the bronze medal in the 2016 Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Awards (Adult eBook category). His novel UNDERSTANDING THE ALACRÁN won the silver medal in the 2017 FAPA President's Awards (Contemporary/Literary category).

He lives in Mexico City and plays in the rock band THE CROOKED EAST.

www.jonlapoma.com.

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MAC Horror Festival (First Place) [2017]
iHolly (First Place) [2017]
New Renaissance (First Place) [2017]
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MAC Horror Festival (First Place) [2017]
iHolly (First Place) [2017]
New Renaissance (First Place) [2017]
Hollywood Screenplay (First Place, Grand Prize Winner-Comedy) [2017]
Creative World (Finalist) [2017]
Screenplay Festival (Finalist) [2017]
Indie Gathering (Finalist, 4th Place: Comedy) [2017]
Table Read (Semifinalist) [2017]
Las Vegas Screenplay (Third Place) [2017]
World Series (Third Place) [2017]
Twister Alley Festival (Finalist) [2017]
Sunset Film Festival (Finalist) [2017]
Buffalo Niagara Festival (Finalist) [2017]
Beverly Hills Fest (Finalist) [2017]
Oaxaca FilmFest (Finalist) [2017]
PAGE International (Quarterfinalist, Comedy) [2017]
Los Angeles CineFest (Finalist) [2017]
Austin Fest Film (Quarterfinalist, Second Round) [2017]
Extreme Feature (Semifinalist) [2017]
Fresh Voices Feature (Quarterfinalist) [2017]
Sacramento Fest (Semifinalist) [2017]
WriteMovies (Quarterfinalist) [2017]
WriteMovies Monthly (WMCm) (Honorable Mention) [2017]
California (Honorable Mention) [2017]
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