The Wrath of Kon

Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Author: jkonrath

  • Book, passports, stuff, writing

    I don’t usually talk about works in progress, but just a quick accountability note here to mention that I finished the first draft of my 18th book. This is more or less a spiritual continuation of The Failure Cascade, and is 20 stories, but almost three times longer. I’m moving past flash fiction and micro-fiction,…

  • Speed, funnels, writing

    A few vague thoughts on blogging and such on a lazy Sunday, which seems to be the only day I can ever pay attention to this thing. I keep thinking about what I want to do here and how this blog should evolve (or whatever.) I sometimes think the big retirement project should be a…

  • Sunday

    Lazy Sunday and I have not updated in a while. I’d normally do some giant bulleted list, but I’m out of bullets, so I’ll just ramble for a bit. The main reason I haven’t updated is because I’ve been busy writing. After almost two years of trying to write and failing, I decided to shift…

  • Vol.13, Revisited

    Vol.13 rides again. I’ve revisited and republished my 13th book from 2016. Let’s cut to the chase with the Amazon link: https://amzn.to/4e81lyi For those who don’t remember, this was a book of 20 short stories and flash fiction pieces. It included two things that were in other zines, and three stories that were in my…

  • Ode to a 2020 MacBook Pro

    Time for another one of these posts. This upgrade is not as catastrophic as a battery explosion like last time. It does have a slightly dumb story to it, though. So yesterday, I was supposed to fly to New Orleans. If you’ve known me for a few years, you know Louisiana is one of the…

  • How to Rob a Bank

    I saw a doc on Netflix the other night called How to Rob a Bank. It’s about Scott Scurlock, a bank robber who had a big run in Seattle in the mid-90s, hitting 18 (or 19) banks for a bit over $2M in 1990s money. It was a pretty generic doc, but had lots of…

  • The KonStack

    OK, so all the cool kids are using Substack as a way to publish newsletters and “blog.” Should I create yet another content platform to work on My Brand? Whatever. I guess. I think there’s some value in having a common platform for discoverability. I mostly say this as a person who’s had a blog…

  • July 4 stuff

    I was thinking on the 4th of July about how I have this proclivity to write about what happens on the 4th of July, even though it’s not stuff about hot dog eating contents and apple pie and going to fireworks shows and wearing clothes made out of flags and whatever else. I’ve already written…

  • Spain

    Had a quick trip to Barcelona for work a week ago. I did zero research before I left, so it was a bit of a rush. Here’s a quick summary: This was a work thing, and 90% of it was strictly work, and I don’t talk about work here, so this isn’t as all-access as…

  • Arm, teeth, allergies

    So I have a good excuse for my blogging slowdown as of late: I broke my arm. This was two weeks ago, and there’s no exciting story behind it. I was walking from work to a hotel where we were having a convention in SF, and I wasn’t looking down and hit some uneven patch…