Josh Viola
Joshua "Josh" Viola is a science fiction/fantasy/horror writer best known for Denver Moon.Background
In 2012, Viola collaborated with Klayton and his music label/publisher, FiXT Music, where Viola is the author of the novels Blackstar and The Bane of Yoto.
He directed the “Unshakeable” animated music video for Celldweller.
Viola is owner of publishing house Hex Publishers. He edited their Denver Post number one best selling horror anthology, Nightmares Unhinged, featuring Bram Stoker, Hugo and Nebula Award winners such as Jason Heller, Steve Rasnic Tem, Edward Bryant and Stephen Graham Jones. He co-edited Cyber World, a cyberpunk anthology, with Jason Heller for Hex Publishers in 2016, which was a 2017 Colorado Book Award finalist and named one of the best anthologies of 2016 by Barnes & Noble. Blood Business, a paranormal crime anthology co-edited by Mario Acevedo, was a 2018 Colorado Book Award finalist. In 2019, his comic book collection, Denver Moon: Metamorphosis, was included on the 2018 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel. He was nominated for his fourth Colorado Book Award in April 2020 for his Denver Moon sequel, The Saint of Mars, a year after the first book, The Minds of Mars, was nominated for the 2019 award.
