Author: J.Conrad Guest
Born: 10/21
Dates: 11/26/09
Bio: J. Conrad Guest's 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.” He has another novel based on the Joe January character, January’s Penitence, being considered for publication. In 2008 he completed Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings, which is forthcoming in 2009 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, he commenced his next major project, a murder mystery that spans two centuries written around baseball legend, Ty Cobb.

J. Conrad's 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. He is also a contributing writer to Impact Times and am cofounder of and cigar, fiction and non-fiction editor for The Smoking Poet. His sports writing can be found at Bleacher Report.