Authors Jennifer Sugar and Jill C. Nelson are pleased to announce that John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches has been published by BearManor Media as a kindle e-reader book on June 10, 2010.  The kindle version of “Inches” is immediately available at Amazon.com for $9.95.  Please visit this link for purchasing information and free chapter samples:  Inches on Kindle 

Note:  The audio format of John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches will be available later this year.

Authors, Jennifer Sugar and Jill C. Nelson would like to welcome everyone to their new official website for John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches.  Please feel free to navigate the site to read biography excerpts, about the authors, critic reviews, press articles, about John Holmes and much more.  Be sure to peruse the three photo galleries, complete with slide show options for better viewing.  Additional photos are interspersed throughout the pages of the site.  Clicking on the links to posts that appear on the home page will connect visitors to older posts.  Respectful comments and/or questions under all categories, where applicable, are appreciated.  Website updates will be made regularly.

John Holmes: A Life Measured is available for purchase at this location, in addition to all major online book retailers.  Signed copies will be available upon request.  For members of the public and/or media interested in contacting the authors, please address all questions to: info@johnholmesinches.com  

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 ”Sugar and Nelson have researched their subject considerably and it is evident on every page. John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches is the distinctive Holmes biography.” — Robert Cettl. Read More Testimonials

Most people might, understandably, predict that the world’s first porn star was a woman, but they would be wrong.

John Curtis Holmes was just a simple country boy from Ohio when he moved to California in 1964.  It was the infancy of hardcore, so in Holmes’ wildest dreams, he could not have predicted the turbulent ride on which he had embarked by publicizing his private parts.

With the fame he achieved by playing his most famous character – a gun toting detective named Johnny Wadd – came money.  Holmes was pleased to spend it on his wife and mistresses, but soon was in over his head after he became addicted to cocaine.  Unfortunately for Holmes, in the years that followed, his addiction led him into several desperate choices – including setting up a robbery at the home of Ed Nash, a powerful L.A. nightclub owner.  The robbery resulted in one of the most gruesome, unsolved, multiple-murders in Hollywood history.  Amazingly, before his untimely death in 1988, John Holmes regained his momentum, remarried and rebuilt his life and career.  However, the grave consequences of his addiction, his association with the Wonderland murders, and his AIDS-related death made him an infamous figure in pop culture.

Digging past the stigmas, John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches – the first biography about John C. Holmes – unearths the human being behind the penis and proves that there was more to him than could be measured in inches.  This biography includes material from the authors’ new interviews with: Laurie Holmes, Bill Amerson, Bob Chinn, Julia St. Vincent, Detective Tom Lange, Detective Frank Tomlinson, Paul Thomas, Ron Jeremy, Seka, Marilyn Chambers, Candida Royalle, Rhonda Jo Petty, Dr. Sharon Mitchell, Bill Margold, and many others!  Also included is additional source material containing extensive  interviews with:  Sharon Holmes, Dawn Schiller, Dr. Vonda Pelto, Ph. D., and L.A. Times film critic, Kenneth Turan.

John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches encompasses 114 reviews of John’s most notable feature films, 86 loops synopses, 3 photos sections with rare nudes, and a comprehensive filmography.

“The tree of life represents the roots of man.  The branches are the different directions a man can take, live or exist.  When you’re dead, those that you leave behind will put you in a part of that tree.  It represents what was, what is and what will be.  It’s eternal.” — John Holmes

The first biography of John Curtis Holmes, The King of Porn!

Published by BearManor Media — Winner of 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards