John Booth

@johnbooth.bsky.social

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I tell stories, play games, and geek out around Ohio.

Exterior of a McDonald's featuring a vintage fiberglass sculpture of an "apple pie tree" character - a tree with a cartoonish face and it's branches laden with apples and fried pies.
Two players at a table covered in RPG dice, books, and character sheets.
An illustration from Star Wars: The Mystery of the Rebellious Robot. Chewbacca, Han, and C-3PO are struck by falling debris. At right, Threepio is wheeled away on a dolly.
Close up of a can of WD40.
A severely damaged Kenner toy X-Wing sits atop a beat up vintage Star Wars board game.
A pencil sketch of a Mandalorian helmet with a Cleveland Guardians C and a Kyle Manzardo moustache.
Footprints leading through about a foot of snow across a driveway and yard to a back porch.
A stack of books: Dan Chaon's You Remind Me of Me, John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars, Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, Every Day I Pray for Love by Yayoi Kusama, and the RPG books The Midderlands, Light of Xaryxis, Boo's Astral Menagerie, and Astral Adventurer's Guide.
Two kids look over the back of a brown couch.. it's 1978 and one is wearing earmuffs and holding a brand new Kenner X-Wing Star Wars toy.
A young kid in the year 1978 playing with a Kenner Star Wars Death Star toy.
A pale dried blob of craft dough that was once green and holly leaf-shaped hangs from a worn bit of red yarn on a Christmas tree. The ornament is covered in glitter and was made by a five year old in 1975.
A floofy cat rests her head and front paws over the forearm of a human just trying to work at their computer.
A mustachioed man in front of bookshelves accompanied by text of running stats: 3.2 miles in 32:01 for a 10 minute per mile pace, 12/1/25.
A tuxedo cat perched on a desk corner against a backdrop of bookshelves.
Pope Leo, eyes shut as he grips a microphone close to his face and speaks.
A couple dozen metal tabletop gaming miniatures gathered on a bookshelf. Some are painted, others are bare. There are dwarves, fighters, horses, riflemen, a dragon/lizardman, a ninja and a little girl clutching a teddy bear, which seems like a trap, right?
Text of a Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Dated November 14, 2025. The Inferno in Pictures by Matt Kish. Imprint: Tin House Books. Artist, illustrator, and author of Moby-Dick In Pictures and an illustrated version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Matt Kish's The Inferno In Pictures, a four-color illustrated adaptation of Danta Alighieri's Inferno, featuring 136 original illustrations in mixed media, to Masie Cochrane at Tin House Books, by Seth Fishman at The Gernert Company (NA).
A hand holding several German Star Wars cards from a 1970s game. The top one is labeled Krieg der Sterne and features C3PO and an X Wing.
A tall wooden bookcase with shelves full of books and nerd ephemera.
Four frames of film showing Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt scenes from the 1997 Star Wars Special Edition release trailer.
A barred owl perches on a gloved hand.
A floofy housecat does a social flop on an area rug. Her belly is skyward and superfluffy, and she is adorable.
A vibrant and colorful piece of art featuring a close up of a stylized green monster's eye and cranial appendages including an orange narwhal-like horn and green growths shaped like brass horn bells.
An early 1970s black & white photo of a super cool guy calling or singing across a bar, his mouth wide beneath an excellent mustache of the era, and his eyebrows raised in effort. Behind him, a sign reads "269 Lounge - Excuse Me Sir You've Gotten Me Mistaken for Some One Who Gives A Shit." The 269 Lounge was a bar on a US Air Force Base in Kojin, South Korea.
Art by Matt Kish: A stylized and surreal spider, with many more than eight spindly limbs looping in all directions, a swollen body with many red-irised human eyes, against a bright pink background laced with white spiderwebs.
Ink and paint art from a vintage Dixie Cup package: Two Star Wars star destroyers against a backdrop of deep blue space and stars, along with a bold orange planet.
Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Jet Greaves standing on the ice in front of the net during pre-game introductions.
A man in an all black outfit consisting of work boots, a kilt, longsleeve t-shirt, and Scottish-inspired sash. He is holding a red lightsaber and calls himy Kyle O'Ren.
Selfie of a man taken during a run in a park. He is wearing a ball cap and headphones and behind him are trees with orange, red, and yellow leaves.
A purple-tinged mountainside against a purple swirl of storm clouds over an orange sea. In the middle distance, a green starburst. Text reading: Only in nightmares has your party seen beasts such as these: massive insectoid monstrosities with triple clacking mandibles and unsettlingly clustered mammalian eyes. They're deadly and horrifying - and maybe just the first wave of a new terror in these remote hills.
A painting of an orange fantasy creature with immense jaws, nine eyes, and many teeth against a backdrop of stars and skulls. Text reads: "The Legacy of Mo'Roh - written by John Booth, Illustrated by Matt Kish, Designed by Carmen Dotterer"
Image of a fortune cookie slip reading "a new outlook will lead to clarity"
An over-the-shoulder shot of one of Cleveland's Guardians of Traffic.
Three Goodyear blimps over Cleveland and Lake Erie.
Screenshot of an NPR social post featuring an image of musician yeule.
A tuxedo cat stretches on a couch.
Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad train engine pulling into a station.
A man wearing headphones and a ballcap with a bridge and river in the background. Running stats: 3.12 miles, 27:45, pace: 8:54 per mile.
Cleveland's Terminal Tower against a backdrop of clouds.
Child's crayon drawing of C-3PO and R2-D2 from Star Wars, 1977.
A drawing of R2-D2 wearing a Beatle wig and saying "I now declare this bridge open."
Head and shoulders of a white man outdoors with a stream and trees in the background.
A man with glasses and a ballcap with a forest background.
A gray cat's rear sticks out of a tunnel. It is doodles on to mimic an elephant head, and titled "Babar's Adventure."
A view of the baseball diamond and Cleveland skyline at Progressive Field, taken from high along the first base line.
A man with glasses looks into the camera as the sun sets behind him.
A small shriveled pumpkin decorated with painted and glued-on eyes and with a tiny pair of tennis shoes as feet.