Pappyland
Jon co-created, produced, wrote, and directed the children’s series Pappyland, which aired on PBS member stations and TLC.
About Jon Nappa
A life spent following the shape of a good story.
Jon Nappa is an author, screenwriter, producer, and communications expert whose work moves across the page, screen, studio, and the stories families choose to preserve.
For more than 35 years, he has brought research, feeling, and narrative structure to projects large and small. NIPI Books is where that practice meets independent publishing: historical fiction, fantasy adventure, and picture books made for adults and children to read together.
He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and brings the same patience for a well-shaped story to every book and heirloom biography.
Explore Jon’s booksAcross the screen
From children’s television to family drama.
When Calls the Heart
He wrote for Hallmark’s When Calls the Heart, including the Season 1 episode “Perils of the Soloists,” later aired as “Second Chances.”
County Line
He co-wrote County Line, an INSP Films production, with Shea Sizemore and Jason White.
MFACreative Writing, Queens University of Charlotte
35+years in storytelling and communications
7current NIPI Books titles
Storytelling in practice
Work that moves between worlds.
Jon has also served as head writer for the Debbie Reynolds and Todd Fisher Hollywood Motion Picture Museum, creating projects for Todd Fisher and the Debbie Reynolds Hollywood Motion Picture Company.
Whether the work is a novel, an episode, a children’s series, or a family history, the aim is the same: to find the human thread and tell its story in a way that endures and inspires.
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