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• Terror Television was awarded a Booklist Editor's Choice citation (2001).
• Horror Films of the 1970s was awarded a Booklist Editor's Choice citation (2002); was named a RUSA "Outstanding Reference Book for 2002"; and finally, heralded as a "Best of the Best Reference Book for 2002" by the American Library Association.
• The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi was awarded a "starred review" in the June 2004 issue of Library Journal.
• The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television was selected for a "starred review" in May 15, 2004 issue of Library Journal, and saluted as a "New York Public Library Best of Reference" for 2005.

• John has traveled to Toronto, where he taped three segments for TVOntario's popular and long-lived Saturday Night at the Movies. Two of his segments aired in October 2005.
• John appeared on The E! True Hollywood Story installment "Curse of the Exorcist" that first aired in August of 2004, and then was repeated on Halloween weekend of 2005.
• On July 16, 2000, John appeared on the Sci-Fi Channel series Sciography and the segment about the TV series Battlestar Galactica.
• In 1997, John was an extra in the feature film Body Count, playing a prison yard convict in orange jumpsuit.

• For Halloween of 2005, The Enquirer Journal ran a piece about John's recommended Halloween movies for several decades.
• In early 2005, two prominent city magazines profiled John and his work. In January, Mike Ward wrote a piece entitled "Guest Work" for Richmond Magazine. In February 2005, John was interviewed by Mike Jones for the "buzz" section of Charlotte Magazine in a piece called "Film Buff." He also offered his opinions on Battlestar Galactica new and old for Amazing Stories in January '05.

• John was a guest on Radio City Ecuador on October 28, 2004 to discuss Horror Movies of the 1970s on Buscando La Luna.
• John guested on WBAI's NiteShift, hosted by Mike Sargent, on August 2, 2004 to discuss the films of Sam Raimi.
• John made his fifth appearance on Dr. Howard Margolin's radio genre-talk program, Destinies: the Voice of Science Fiction on June 16, 2004. A transcript of John's interview is available here.
  For a transcript of John's November 2002 appearance, click here.
  For a recording of John's February 23, 2007 appearance, click here.

• John was a special guest at Bride of Monsterfest on October 8, 2005 at Chesapeake Central Library in Chesapeake, Virginia. This followed to appearances in Virginia in July 2005, one at the Williamsburg Library on July 21, 2005 to discuss superheroes on film and television, and one at FantaSci on July 23, 2005 to conduct his seminar on sci-fi TV of the disco decade.
• John attended FantaSci again on July 29, 2006 to debut the trailer for his new TV series, The House Between, with a panel discussion featuring members of the cast and crew to follow.