J. Conrad Guest
Biography
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.” I have another novel based on the Joe January character, January’s Penitence, being considered for publication. In 2008 I completed Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings, which is now available from Second Wind Publishing.
After completing a futuristic piece, Chaotic Theory, a novella that explores the conjecture of how the flap of a butterfly’s wings in South America might result in a tornado in Texas, I commenced my next major project, a murder mystery that spans two centuries written around baseball legend, Ty Cobb.
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. I am also a contributing writer to Impact Times and am cofounder of The Smoking Poet. My sports writing can be found at Bleacher Report.
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Books
Back Home Again in Indiana
by J. Conrad Guest
Price: Free! 3080 words.
Published by Second Wind Publishing, LLC on January 29, 2012. Nonfiction.
Four men of a certain age make an all-night drive to attend the 2011 Indianapolis 500.
This short story provided for your quick reading entertainment by J. Conrad Guest, author of the detective novel series, "One Hot January" and "January's Thaw", and the romantic baseball novel "Backstop, A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings".
Do You Like to Kill?
by J. Conrad Guest
Price: Free! 1210 words.
Published by Second Wind Publishing, LLC on January 29, 2012. Fiction.
It’s strange how a comment, even made in jest, can affect an impressionable young mind.
This short story provided for your quick reading entertainment by J. Conrad Guest, author of the detective novel series, "One Hot January" and "January's Thaw", and the romantic baseball novel "Backstop, A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings".
January's Thaw
by J. Conrad Guest
Price: $4.99 USD. 80310 words.
Published by Second Wind Publishing, LLC on January 15, 2012. Fiction.
Many people obsess over their past, but no one more than I. Perchance it’s because, as a man out of time, I left behind so much of it unlived. If that makes little sense, consider that I’m a time traveler.
Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings
by J. Conrad Guest
Price: $4.99 USD. 70370 words.
Published by Second Wind Publishing, LLC on December 31, 2009. Fiction.
Told in his own words during the seventh game of the World Series, Backstop chronicles his
rookie year, finds romance, and reveals the heartbreak he endured in the aftermath of his adulterous affair. You’ll cheer for Backstop as he plays the most important game of his career, haunted by the ghost of his father, and fights to win back the heart of the woman he loves more than the game.
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