Joshua Ortega

Joshua Ortega
Joshua Ortega at the April 2008 New York Comic Con.
Born	1974
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, novelist
Notable works	Frequencies, Star Wars, Spider-Man, Batman, Star Trek
http://www.joshuaortega.com/

Joshua Ortega (born 1974) is an American author and journalist best known for his novel Frequencies, as well as his comic book and graphic novel work on entertainment properties such as Star Wars, Spider-Man, Batman, Star Trek, The Escapist, and The Necromancer.

Joshua Ortega began his writing career at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, working as a reporter and a reviewer for the school's newspaper, The Daily of the University of Washington, covering the booming Seattle music and arts scene of the 1990s.

After college, he worked for the Los Angeles-based USB magazine and The Flavor, a Seattle-based hip-hop magazine. During this time, he not only continued to cover the music and entertainment beat, but also began to write about technology's effects on culture and politics. He soon developed a reputation as an expert in the fields of emerging technology and surveillance issues, and would later contribute feature-length articles for newspapers such as The Seattle Times.

While working as a journalist, one of Ortega's poems, "A Place at the Table", was selected as the lead poem for a poetry anthology, A Place at the Table, which was juried by the publishers of Blue Begonia Press and the Raven Chronicles, and edited by award-winning poet Jody Aliesan. During this time, he also worked for Microsoft, providing original content for a number of the company's online video games.

In 1998, Ortega founded his own publishing and entertainment company, Omega Point Productions, and in August 1999, the company published the first edition of his debut novel Frequencies. After two years and multiple printings, the rights to Frequencies were bought by the Jodere Group, publishers of such New York Times Bestsellers as Crossing Over by John Edward and The Power of Kaballah by Yehuda Berg.