Occupation Novelist Name J. Konrath | Role Fiction writer | |
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Genre Mystery, Thriller, Horror Nominations Barry Award for Best Novel, Macavity Awards for Best First Mystery Novel, Anthony Award for Best First Novel Books Whiskey Sour, Fuzzy Navel, Timecaster, DIRTY MARTINI, Serial Killers Uncut Similar People F Paul Wilson, Robert B Parker, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, Donald E Westlake | ||
Education Columbia College Chicago | ||
Joseph Andrew Konrath (born 1970 in Skokie, Illinois) is a fiction writer working in the mystery, thriller, and horror genres. He writes as J. A. Konrath and Jack Kilborn. In 2011 Konrath was named one of the "5 eBook Authors To Watch" by Mediabistro.com's Dianna Dilworth.
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Biography
Konrath graduated from Columbia College in Chicago in 1992 and spent the next 12 years garnering close to five hundred rejections for nine unpublished novels. His tenth book, Whiskey Sour, was picked up by Hyperion in 2003 and was the first in a series featuring Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels of the Chicago Police Department. He’s since published dozens of short stories and articles, been translated into eight languages, and edited an anthology called These Guns for Hire for Bleak House Books. In 2010 the seventh book in the Jack Daniels series was picked up for publication by AmazonEncore. Konrath currently lives in Schaumburg, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. J.A. Konrath teaches writing at Dupage College, Illinois.
Awards
Konrath has won the 2006 Bob Kellog Humanitarian Award and the 2004 Derringer Award for Flash Fiction.
Writing
Konrath is a big advocate of self-publishing and for self-promotion, believing that writers must play a large part in marketing their own books. He's also known for having an outspoken view on the publishing industry, blogging about topics such as 2012 accusations by some industry pundits that Amazon endangered book sales.