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Last Update: June 8, 2015
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Last Login: August 18, 2018
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Joined: November 24, 2013
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About Me
I write novels about the universal ideals of love, loss, regret, and death—and the emotions associated with those ideals. A critic calls my work, “Gritty, entertaining… real. Romance for the non-romantic.”
Current Entertainment Monthly in Ann Arbor, Michigan, wrote of my first novel, January’s Paradigm, “(readers) will not be able to put it down.” I have two other novels based on the Joe January character, One Hot January and January’s Thaw. Both are available from Second Wind Publishing.
In 2008 I completed Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings, which is available from Second Wind as well as from Amazon in both book and Kindle formats, and from Barnes and Noble (Nook). Backstop was nominated as a 2010 Michigan Notable Book, while the Lewis Department of Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology adopted it as required reading for their spring 2011 course, Baseball: America’s Literary Pastime.
Chaotic Theory, a novella that explores the conjecture of how the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil might result in a tornado in Texas, is now available from Amazon in book and Kindle formats.
In April 2010, I completed my fifth novel, The Cobb Legacy, a murder mystery that spans two centuries written around baseball legend, Ty Cobb, and the shooting death of his father by his mother. The Cobb Legacy is now available for download for your Kindle, Nook, EPUB, MOBI or in PDF.
Death is considered a universal ideal in fiction writing, so you’ll want to check out A Retrospect in Death, which is now available from Second Wind.
500 Miles to Go is set during the golden era of motor racing (the 1960s). The story follows young Alex Król as he seeks love while making his dream to win the Indianapolis 500 come true. 500 Miles to go is set to launch by year end.
I’ve completed, A World Without Music, speculative fiction about a veteran of the Gulf War suffering PTSD set against a backdrop of romance, and is being considered for publication.
My fiction and essays appear in various online and print publications, including Cezanne’s Carrot, Saucy Vox, River WalkJournal, 63 Channels, The Writers Post Journal, Redbridge Review, and Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. My sports writing can be found at Bleacher Report. -
Books I've Written
500 Miles to Go
A Retrospect in Death
A World Without Music
Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings
January's Paradigm
January's Thaw
One Hot January
The Cobb Legacy - Location Michigan [map]
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Posted in the topic J. Conrad Guest to Appear on Red River Radio in the Forum EventsDecember 31, 2013 10:53 AM ESTPlease add this to your calendar. I'll be talking about my new novel, 500 Miles to Go, and reading an excerpt.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rrradio/2014/01/22/whats-write-for-me
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Posted in the topic Backstop, by J. Conrad Guest in the Forum This Month's SelectionsDecember 5, 2013 5:23 PM ESTThanks, Stern and Joy, for leaving your comments. I hope you'll let me know what you think of Backstop when you finish reading it.
Good see you, Dana, and thanks for adding your voice to the board.