J. Conrad Guest
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Writer/editor |
| Location | Dearborn, Michigan, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | My first novel, January’s Paradigm, was published by Minerva Press, London, England. Current Entertainment Monthly in Ann Arbor, Michigan, wrote of January’s Paradigm, “(readers) will not be able to put it down.” My second published novel, Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings is soon to be available from Second Wind Publishing. My fiction and essays appear in various online and print publications, including Cezanne’s Carrot, Saucy Vox, River Walk Journal, 63 Channels, The Writers Post Journal, Redbridge Review, and Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. A short essay of mine on the writing life appears in the 2008 edition of Bylines Calendar — a 2006 finalist for the Walter Williams Award, given by the Missouri Writers’ Guild. |
| Interests | Many interests, too many to mention them all, but here are a few: reading, writing (no 'rithmetic), music, sports and old movies. |
| Favorite movies | The Fisher King, Local Hero and Once Upon a Time In the West, among others. |
| Favorite music | Jazz, blues, and good old fashioned, straight-ahead, no-brainer rock and roll. Little Feat put on just about the best live show I've ever seen. I've partied with Dave Brubeck at a Christmas party. |
| Favorite books | I'll add to this occassionally, but here are a few with which to start: The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe; Nova by Samuel R. Delaney; The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith; Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe; The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson. |