Occupation Author Role Author Name J.T. Ellison | Spouse Married Nationality American | |
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Genre Mystery, Thriller, Suspense Education Randolph College, George Washington University Books The Final Cut, Where All the Dead Lie, The Cold Room, So Close the Hand of Death, A Deeper Darkness Profiles | ||
J t ellison on john seigenthaler npt
New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison writes domestic noir and psychological thrillers, the latter starring Nashville Homicide Lt. Taylor Jackson and medical examiner Dr. Samantha Owens, and pens the "A Brit in the FBI" series with #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter. With over a million books in print, Ellison's work has been published in twenty-six countries and fourteen languages. She is also the co-host of the EMMY® Award-winning television series, A Word on Words, which airs on Nashville Public Television. J.T. is also the founder of Two Tales Press, an independent publishing house, and The Wine Vixen, a wine review website. She lives with her husband and twin kittens in Nashville.
Contents
- J t ellison on john seigenthaler npt
- The final cut by catherine coulter and j t ellison
- Background
- Writing career
- Other Ventures
- Personal life
- Reception
- Awards
- Book of the Month Club
- Indie Next Pick
- Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week
- She Reads Book Club Selection
- SIBA Okra Pick
- Interviews
- Representation
- References
The final cut by catherine coulter and j t ellison
Background
Ellison was born outside of Orlando, Florida and moved to rural Colorado when she was two, then to Washington, D.C. at the age of fourteen. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College with a double major in Politics and English Creative Writing and a minor in Economics, then received her master's degree from George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management. Ellison was a presidential appointee and worked in The White House and the Department of Commerce before moving into the private sector to work as a financial analyst and marketing director for several defense and aerospace contractors.
Writing career
When Ellison's college advisor told her that her writing wasn't good enough to be published, Ellison changed her plan to get a Master's of Fine Arts and, instead, went into politics. Eight years later, while living in Nashville, Ellison was recuperating from a back injury when she first read the PREY series by John Sandford and rediscovered her love of storytelling.
Ellison began to research her hidden passions: forensics and crime, and was compelled to begin writing down her stories. To research her books, she has worked with the Metro Nashville Police Department and the FBI, as well as performing autopsies and studying survivalists.
Ellison is perhaps best known for her Lt. Taylor Jackson series, which features Nashville homicide detective Taylor Jackson. Ellison successfully spun-off the series with Jackson's best friend, Medical Examiner Dr. Samantha Owens, as she begins her life in Washington, D.C. In 2012, Ellison teamed up with #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter to co-write a new FBI series. The first book, The Final Cut, released in September 2013 and hit every major bestseller list. The series continues with The Lost Key and The End Game; the newest installment, The Devil's Triangle, is slated to release March 14, 2017. Ellison published her first standalone novel, No One Knows, a Nashville-based domestic thriller, in March 2016 with Gallery Books.
She also has co-written with Erica Spindler and Alex Kava on two anthology collaborations: Slices of Night and Storm Season.
Ellison is a co-founder of Killer Year, an interactive society composed of 13 debut crime/mystery/suspense authors whose books were first published in 2007, creating an active online community and teaming authors with mentors from among the most established authors within the genre. The group was dedicated to furthering the writing, publishing and marketing goals of its members and the highly popular community involved readers, reviewers, and publishing professionals. A collection of short stories by the graduating class, including comments and contributions from seasoned vets such as Lee Child and Allison Brennan, was published to acclaim as Killer Year: Stories to Die For...From the Hottest New Crime Writers. Killer Year became the model for the International Thriller Writers debut author program, which Ellison helped develop.
Ellison also was one of the original members of, and a contributor to, the Anthony Award-nominated crime fiction blog, Murderati, which ran from 2006-2012 and is now an archive. She also contributed essays in volumes published by Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers and regularly blogs about the writing business on The Tao of JT.
She also writes under the name Andrea Ellison overseas (France and Holland/Belgium)
Ellison is an active member of several professional writing organizations, including International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America and Romance Writers of America.
Other Ventures
In 2015, Ellison became the co-host of Nashville Public Television's premier literary television series A Word on Words. The show was hosted for more than forty years by acclaimed journalist and bibliophile, John Seigenthaler, before his death in 2014. The show features authors who discuss their books, the publishing business, and their personal lives. The rebooted show is filmed on location in Nashville, and appears on-air in two- to three-minute segments. In 2017, the first season of "A Word on Words" won a regional EMMY for Best Interstitial.
Ellison is also the founder of Two Tales Press, an independent publishing house featuring Ellison's short stories and novellas.
An amateur oenophile, Ellison teamed up with her business manager, Amy Kerr, and launched The Wine Vixen, a blog dedicated to all things vino. The blog resurrects Ellison's Wine Recommendation of the Week, a staple of her blog posts on Murderati, and features wines for any budget, travelogues, wine zeitgeist, and more.
Personal life
Ellison lives with her husband and twin kittens in Nashville.