Joseph Andrew Konrath (born March 29, 1970, in Skokie, Illinois) is an American fiction writer working in the mystery, thriller, and horror genres. He writes as J. A. Konrath and Jack Kilborn.

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Columbia College in Chicago in 1992 and spent the next 12 years garnering close to five hundred rejections for nine unpublished novels.BookExpo America 2010: The Changing DIY Ethos Publishers Weekly His tenth book, Whiskey Sour, was picked up by Hyperion in 2003 and was the first in a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.These Guns for Hire Google Books In 2010 the seventh book in the Jack Daniels series was picked up for publication by AmazonEncore.Konrath Moves 'Jack Daniels' Series to AmazonEncore Publishers Weekly

He currently lives in Schaumburg, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. He teaches writing at the College of DuPage.

Awards Konrath won the 2005 Derringer Award for Flash Fiction and the 2006 Bob Kellog Humanitarian Award. He was 2nd place for the 2005 Ellery Queen Reader's Choice Award and was nominated in 2004 for the Macavity Awards, Anthony Awards, and Gumshoe Awards.

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 the 2012 accusations by some industry pundits that Amazon has endangered book sales.Scott Turow, J.A. Konrath, Barry Eisler Respond To DOJ Investigation Mediabistro.com

Bibliography Novels Afraid (2008, 2019) - Under the pseudonym Jack Kilborn A Shot of Tequila (2010) - A Jack Daniels Thriller Audiobook narrated by Luke Daniels Endurance (2010) - Under the pseudonym Jack Kilborn Audiobook narrated by Christopher Lane Trapped (2010) - Under the pseudonym Jack Kilborn Audiobook narrated by MacLeod Andrews

Jack Daniels series Audiobooks in this series narrated by Bob Walkenhorst, Dani McIntyre, and Dillon Horinek

Whiskey Sour (2004) Bloody Mary (2005) Rusty Nail (2006) Dirty Martini (2007) Fuzzy Navel (2008) Cherry Bomb (2009) Dead on my Feet Serial Killers Uncut with Blake Crouch (2011) Shaken (2010) Stirred (with Blake Crouch (2012)) Dying Breath (2014) Everybody Dies Rum Runner (2016) Last Call (2016) White Russian (2017) Shot Girl (2019) Chaser (2019) Old Fashioned (2020) Lady 52 (with Jude Hardin (2021)) Bite Force (2022) Witch Brew (2023) Jack Rose (2023) Pink Lady (2024) Bourbon Hammer (2025)

Tie-in stories "On the Rocks" (Featuring Jack Daniels, first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (EQMM)) "With a Twist" (Featuring Jack Daniels, EQMM) "Body Shots" (Featuring Jack Daniels, Amazon Shorts) "Whelp Wanted" (Featuring Harry McGlade, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine) "Taken to the Cleaners" (Featuring Harry McGlade, The Strand Magazine) "Street Music" (Featuring Phineas Troutt, EQMM) "Epitaph" (Featuring Phineas Troutt, Thriller edited by James Patterson) "Suffer" (Featuring Phineas Troutt, EQMM) "Bereaved" (Featuring Phineas Troutt, These Guns for Hire, edited by J. A. Konrath) "Potshot" (Featuring Herb Benedict, Amazon Shorts) "The One That Got Away" (Featuring The Gingerbread Man, Amazon Shorts) "The Necro File" (Featuring Harry McGlade, first published in Like a Chinese Tattoo) "Last Request" (Featuring Phineas Troutt) "Overproof" (Featuring Jack Daniels, first published in Chicago Blues edited by Libby Fischer Hellmann) "School Daze" (Phineas Troutt)

The above are all collected in the book Jack Daniels Stories.

Suckers (Featuring Harry McGlade) novella co-written by Jeff Strand "Truck Stop" "Floaters" "Planter's Punch" "Burners" "Banana Hammock" "Babe on Board"

Other short stories "The Agreement" (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine) "Symbios" (Apex Digest) "Forgiveness" (Cemetery Dance) "Light Drizzle" (Crimespree Magazine) "The Shed" (Surreal Magazine) "Finicky Eater" (Horror Garage Magazine) "The Screaming" (The Many Faces of Van Helsing, edited by Jeanne Cavelos) "Don’t Press That Button!" (James Bond in the 21st Century, edited by Glenn Yeffeth) "The Bag" (Cold Flesh, edited by Paul Fry) "The Big Guys, He Bites, A Matter of Taste" (Small Bites, edited by Garrett Peck and Keith Gouveia) "Appalachian Lullabye" (Requiem for the Radioactive Monkey, edited by John Weagley) "Lying Eyes" (Twisted Tongue Magazine) "Redux" (Spooks, edited by Tina L. Jens & John Everson) "The Conversation" (Hard Luck Stories) "A Fistful of Cozy" (Shots) "Mr. Pull Ups" (Tales from the Red Lion, edited by Tina L. Jens and John Weagley) "Punishment" (Like a Chinese Tattoo, edited by Bill Breedlove) "The Confession" (Like a Chinese Tattoo, edited by Bill Breedlove) "Them's Good Eats" (Gratia Placenti, edited by Jason Sizemore & Gill Ainsworth) "Lying Eyes" (Twisted Tongue #2) "The Sound of Blunder" co-written with F. Paul Wilson (Blood Lite, edited by Kevin J. Anderson) "S.A." (Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner)

Other self-published fiction Origin - A thriller about Satan being studied in a secret government compound (Kindle edition April 2009; paperback November 2010; 2018 edition ). The List - A thriller about a cop who discovers he, and several others, are clones of famous historical figures (Kindle edition April 2009; paperback July 2010); Kensington 2018 edition Disturb - A thriller about a new legal insomnia drug with deadly side effects (Kindle edition April 2009; paperback November 2010); 2019 edition 65 Proof - A collection of short stories (Kindle edition April 2009; paperback March 2011). Epitaph - A thriller originally published in the Thriller (anthology) edited by James Patterson and published by Harlequin Enterprises in 2017;

Self-published non-fiction The Newbie's Guide to Publishing (Everything a Writer Needs to Know) – Kindle edition April 2010. Be the Monkey - Ebooks and Self-Publishing: A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath – Co-written with Barry Eisler (Kindle edition June 2011).

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