• Howard is currently pitching IN THE GROOVE. A comedy-drama about the '90s music business.
• He has written the pilot and bible for WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS—based on his series of sci-fi books—and he has written the pilot for a limited series, COMPROMISE, about the political demise of Reconstruction.
• Howard's writing career, as an editor and a freelancer, has been sidetracked by successful stints in the music biz. One of the bands he managed sold over 2 million units.
• Edited the 2,300-page manuscript of If They Move … Kill’em: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah by David Weddle (Atlantic/Grove Press) which ended up being 600 pages long.
• Collaborator — writer and interviewer — on Among the Mansions of Eden: Tales of Love, Lust, and Land in Beverly Hills by David Weddle (William Morrow/HarperCollins).
• Freelance writer for many publications including Los Angeles Times Magazine and Fuel.
• Author, The SEEDER series - When All Else Fails (2017), Foreseeable Future (2020), What You Will (2024)
When All Else Fails Sci-fi ⋄ Drama Living on a planet in the grips of an authoritarian regime and in the throes of an irreversible environmental crisis, Mar Vanderlord has grave concerns about her son’s life as a leader of the rebellion and when attempting to curtail his behavior, she is plunged into intrigue which transforms her into a revolutionary herself.
Compromise Drama ⋄ Historical As the contested 1876 presidential election threatens to end Reconstruction, a passionate young suffragette and a college graduate, who joins the army to battle the Ku Klux Klan, work to preserve civil rights while engaged in a tumultuous romance. • The Way We Were set against the 1876 election