John Soares left college teaching in 1994 to engage in the lucrative career of supplement writing. Since then he has written over 200 supplements (also called ancillaries and instructional materials) for college textbooks. His major clients have included Pearson Education (Prentice Hall, Benjamin Cummings, Allyn & Bacon), Cengage Learning (Wadsworth, Houghton Mifflin, Brooks-Cole), HarperCollins, and McGraw-Hill. He is a member of the Text and Academic Authors Association.

John taught American government, international relations, and politics of developing nations at Butte College and Shasta College from 1990 to 1994. His professional work for college textbook publishers includes creating test banks, instructor’s manuals, student study guides, student companion sites, lecture outlines, educational booklets, PowerPoint ™ presentations, Internet exercises, article exercises, transparencies, video scripts, portions of textbooks, copyediting, proofreading, copywriting for publisher websites, and much more.

John is also an outdoors writer. He’s written two hiking guides covering trails in Northern California, in addition to writing over 100 newspaper and magazine articles.

John holds a B. S. degree in biochemistry from the University of California at Davis (highest honors) and he earned a M. A. degree in political science from UC Davis. He has also taken coursework in history, geography, and earth sciences.

John lives near Mount Shasta in northern California.

John Soares relaxing in a tributary of the upper Sacramento River near Mount Shasta in northern California.