Still searching for John G Jones - another dead end

[WantedbytheFBI]

As some of you know, I've been trying to track down the elusive Mr. Jones for some months now, and thought I'd have a pop at one of his old publishers.

Sadly, their reply turned up another dead end

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Dear Rob Stanley,

Thank you for your email. I'm afraid however that I can find no author or agent contact details for this publication. Unfortunately when a book has been out of print for so long, we do not have the space to keep hold of certain records.
Sorry for any disappointment.

All best wishes, Francesca Best

Francesca Best
Editorial Assistant
Hodder & Stoughton
338 Euston Road
London NW1 3BH
www.hodder.co.uk



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From: rob@xxx[mailto:robxxx]
Sent: 28 November 2008 11:28
To: Francesca Best
Subject: General - Author Contact


From the website

First Name: Rob

Last Name: Stanley

E-Mail: rob@xxxxx

Telephone: 01482 xxxxx

Address: xxxx

Post Code: HUxxxx

Message: Good morning, I was wondering if you might still have contact details, or agent details for the author, John G. Jones, whose book, ''The Amityville Horror: Pt. 2'' was published under your NEL imprint in June, 1982 (ISBN-10: 0450054683). Many thanks for any assistance you may be able to provide. Kindest regards, Rob Stanley


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I've still got an enquiry outstanding to Kurt Solderling, who's apparently working on a Jones script ('Clown Face'), but that was a week or so back now, so not looking good.

Any other ideas chaps?

Rob

[Dan the Damned]

Weren't one or two of the Amityville sequels based on Jones' books? Perhaps you can try that route (though it may be fruitless due to studios devouring one another). But perhaps you can find contact information with one of the other crew members working on the movie who might have had contact with Jones during production, and get in touch that way (if they kept in touch with each other since then)...

[Chichibcc]

It's as if he vanished into thin air....

[Amit Y Ville]

Or uses another pseudonym.

[Chichibcc]

That's certainly a possibility as well...never thought of that before.

[Amit Y Ville]

It's a great idea. No one would have though he was posing under the name of Amit! Sounds very different from the common name of John! LOL.

Oops

[eber3]

That reply you got back was rubbish. They wouldn't just lose that info. Maybe they would have old outdated info, but they're not just going to toss that info. "Don't have the space". What space? We're living in the digital age, all of that is on computers. Just an excuse they fed you.

[WantedbytheFBI]

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how many records would have been transcribed to computers, way back in 1982.

Certainly microfiche was commonly used for archival puposes back then, but databases? Not at all sure?

Rob

[eber3]

By '82 most things were already being stored onto computers, especially at large companies. Even for smaller places, the old paper work was being transferred to computer by the end of 80's early 90's. If the book was from '72 I'd believe the excuse given.

[CMite]

A quick check of the US Copyright Office's website shows that the same John G. Jones who filed copyrights for the Amityville books filed copyright for a work called "Succubus" as late as 2007; no other information given. You can pay the USCO for copies of the record, which should included Jones' address on them.

If not, copyright records also indicate that an option agreement was filed in 1998 for "Amityville: the final chapter & 3 other title; television series", between John G. Jones and Atlantis Films Ltd (makers of such quality made-for-TV shlock as "Night of the Twisters", and a very bad and mercifully short-lived show from the 90's called "Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal"). You may want to try to find some contact info for Atlantis Films, Ltd, and ask them if they have some contact information for either Jones himself, or Jones' literary agent. Good luck!

[Chichibcc]

Thanks...interesting!

[BillyCigars]

Bump.

[Franklin Bronner]

There's a very good reason no one can find any information on "John G. Jones," it's because he's stone cold dead, that's why.
He's buried underneath a tombstone bearing the name "George Lutz."

Weren't one or two of the Amityville sequels based on Jones' books? Perhaps you can try that route (though it may be fruitless due to studios devouring one another). But perhaps you can find contact information with one of the other crew members working on the movie who might have had contact with Jones during production, and get in touch that way (if they kept in touch with each other since then)...

Three of the movies were based on his one book "Amityville: The Evil Escapes," those movies are, in order...

"Amityville: The Evil Escapes" aka Amityville 4
"Amityville: It's About Time" aka Amityville 1992
"Amityville: A New Generation." aka Amityville: The Image of Evil

[Victoria Principles]

There's a very good reason no one can find any information on "John G. Jones," it's because he's stone cold dead, that's why.
He's buried underneath a tombstone bearing the name "George Lutz."

Weren't one or two of the Amityville sequels based on Jones' books? Perhaps you can try that route (though it may be fruitless due to studios devouring one another). But perhaps you can find contact information with one of the other crew members working on the movie who might have had contact with Jones during production, and get in touch that way (if they kept in touch with each other since then)...

Three of the movies were based on his one book "Amityville: The Evil Escapes," those movies are, in order...

"Amityville: The Evil Escapes" aka Amityville 4
"Amityville: It's About Time" aka Amityville 1992
"Amityville: A New Generation." aka Amityville: The Image of Evil

Let's see your evidence, Spudsy.

[Franklin Bronner]

There's a very good reason no one can find any information on "John G. Jones," it's because he's stone cold dead, that's why.
He's buried underneath a tombstone bearing the name "George Lutz."

Weren't one or two of the Amityville sequels based on Jones' books? Perhaps you can try that route (though it may be fruitless due to studios devouring one another). But perhaps you can find contact information with one of the other crew members working on the movie who might have had contact with Jones during production, and get in touch that way (if they kept in touch with each other since then)...

Three of the movies were based on his one book "Amityville: The Evil Escapes," those movies are, in order...

"Amityville: The Evil Escapes" aka Amityville 4
"Amityville: It's About Time" aka Amityville 1992
"Amityville: A New Generation." aka Amityville: The Image of Evil

Let's see your evidence, Spudsy.

Prove to me George Lutz wasn't a con-man, first.

[Victoria Principles]

Prove to me George Lutz wasn't a con-man, first.

Was George Lutz ever arrested, let alone convicted for being a con man? No. What evidence do you have that he was? Proving an unknown is very difficult. No one knows whether there was a haunting or unexplained phenomenol at the house or not.

Want me to prove that you are con man Spudsy? You are making it very easy.

[Franklin Bronner]

Prove to me George Lutz wasn't a con-man, first.

Was George Lutz ever arrested, let alone convicted for being a con man? No. What evidence do you have that he was? Proving an unknown is very difficult. No one knows whether there was a haunting or unexplained phenomenol at the house or not.

Want me to prove that you are con man Spudsy? You are making it very easy.

If no own knows whether there was a haunting or not why are you getting so defensive over it? You seem to believe thick and thin that George Lutz was a saint who deserves recognition for his philanthropy. I'm not a con-man, I'm just a non-believer, somehow, in your twisted world, that makes me a con-man. I'm not the one putting out books about my experiences in a haunted house and telling stupid people it was real.

[Victoria Principles]

Prove to me George Lutz wasn't a con-man, first.

Was George Lutz ever arrested, let alone convicted for being a con man? No. What evidence do you have that he was? Proving an unknown is very difficult. No one knows whether there was a haunting or unexplained phenomenol at the house or not.

Want me to prove that you are con man Spudsy? You are making it very easy.

If no own knows whether there was a haunting or not why are you getting so defensive over it? You seem to believe thick and thin that George Lutz was a saint who deserves recognition for his philanthropy. I'm not a con-man, I'm just a non-believer, somehow, in your twisted world, that makes me a con-man. I'm not the one putting out books about my experiences in a haunted house and telling stupid people it was real.

I never said George Lutz was a saint. Even his own step sons said he exagerated some of the claims and may have messed with occult items. But none of the family said it was a hoax despite the division in the familes.

You are a con man, Spudsy. You are the one popping off random conspiracy theories without one shread of evidence. You are the one who thinks the US is going to invade China. Throwing out wacked out allegations without one thread of evidence is being a con man, Spudsy.

People have been writing about hauntings and ghosts for ages, Spudsy. I guess you probably think William Shakeshere is a con man because he wrote about ghosts.

[sherbetbizarre]

Prove to me George Lutz wasn't a con-man, first.

Since when was this the George Lutz story?

[AutumnMaidenDove]

Who is John G. Jones?

[Tim]

Who is John G. Jones?

Go back and read the previous posts for more info. He wrote the Amityville sequel books.