Jason Norman

I’m Jason Norman, a struggling writer (also known as a “writer”) and father to

Kennedy in Chesapeake, VA, who’s spent the past eighteen years helping local

college students work their own English magic in colleges across Hampton Roads.

I’m still doing that, but authoring is my other area. A movie nut for my whole

life, I got an idea out of almost nowhere a few years ago to put together some

work on an area of the film world that doesn’t really get too much thought,

except for those in it.

Preparation. We see so many performers working so hard to entertain us, doing

their thing on stages, TV screens, and the movies. But how do they make that

happen? You’ll find out! Read on to learn about some of the acting world’s

legendary stars, who managed to turn so far into others that we forgot who they

were for a few hours.

From 2014 to 2017, I managed to churn out four books on the acting prep world.

McFarland Publishing was nice enough to do my debut book, Welcome to Our

Nightmares, a look inside the horror world. It’s available for purchase

everywhere, like below!

Over the next few years, BearManor Media has knocked out Behind the Screams

(also on horror), Actors in Action (a piece on action prepping), and Before the

Camera Rolled (a guide to get somewhere in the acting business).

Then I branched off. Diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism,

I wrote a running diary of my first year of fatherhood after learning I was an

Aspie. We live in a world FAR different from those not on the autism scale,

although certainly not a worse one. Fatherhood (and "husbandhood," which I

practiced for a few years before it ended) can be tough for anyone, but with

Asperger's, there's a whole other set of challenges. But I wrote the piece An

Aspie Daddy to let everyone know just how great it can be to have Asperger's,

and how we can and should embrace it in every sense, ESPECIALLY to our most

special people.

A longtime fan of professional wrestling, I looked for a way to step inside the

combination of sports and entertainment that has entertained me, and millions of

others, for so long. From late 2018 to the summer of 2019, I worked with Jerome

Young, known MUCH better as New Jack to fans of pro wrestling of the most

hardcore and extreme type, to tell his life story in a way that had never been

told (or read) before.

Things kept moving in that sense – in 2024, I published the autobiography of

longtime wrestling enhancement talent (as in, jobber, in wrestling jargon) Barry

Horowitz. The next year came the autobio of Mickie Knuckles, America’s

unofficial queen of hardcore wresting!

I called back on my sportswriting background for a few other creations – women’s

amateur wrestling is the most underappreciated of sports, and I’d like to change

that. I did a piece on the current state of female wrestling in 2022 with

American Women in Amateur Wrestling, and knocked out a similar piece on the

sport’s past with 2025’s Pinning Down Equality.

Formality went the way of the wind for me in early 2025, when I went farther in

fiction than ever before, telling the (sort of) autobiography of Gustave, the

crocodile who has tormented, in every sense of the word, huge swarths of African

for generations.

But by the time the year was done, I was full serious again. John Hinckley Jr. –

yes, the man who tried to kill President Reagan – and I worked together on his

autobiography. We’re hoping that John Hinckley Jr.: Who I Really Am shows people

that there was more to him than just one horrible action.

Please check the spots below to grab up my books – and if you have any

questions, comments, rants, concerns, please contact me here on Amazon. Thanks

for visiting!