Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Category: news

  • NEW YEAR NEW THEME

    So here’s how behind I am: this site has been running the WordPress Twenty Eleven theme since 2012 or so. Now that the Twenty Twenty-One theme has just shipped, I decided to upgrade to the Twenty Twenty theme. A few features and differences: A lot more space and readability, with better typography (I think) Much…

  • I have a new zine out

    I have a new zine out. It is called Mandatory Laxative #14. It is about lunchables and satanism. It is 20 pages long. It is printed on an inkjet printer. It is as lo-fi as possible. I didn’t even spell-check it. It contains the following “stories”: Pain Is Only Temporary (Unless It Is Chronic) A…

  • Yes, I have a new book out now

    Yes, I have a new book out! No, it’s not like the last one! No, I don’t have a snazzy elevator pitch to describe it in a sentence by saying it’s like this movie meets that movie! I don’t write those kind of books. Actually, I did write one of those books, my last one,…

  • More book stuff

    Okay, so more details on The Memory Hunter: See the last post about it. The release date is 9/1/14 It is 320 pages. The cover is amazing.  I said I wasn’t going to reveal it until the Facebook page got 100 likes, so go like it. There is a preview of it, which consists of…

  • Updates on the next book

    Okay. It’s about time to give you some more updates on the next book, because the release is imminent. The book is being edited right now, then it gets designed, goes through production, and all of that pain-in-the-ass stuff.  And then you buy it. Right? Okay, so here are the latest updates. I’m putting them…

  • My new book, Thunderbird, is now available

    Over the next few months, I chipped away at The Perkins Declaration: a 1400-page, ten-part handwritten epic that told the secrets of a military tribunal executing a group of Pakistani filmmakers who were shooting a DeLorean biopic movie in rural Iowa before getting nailed by the Department of Agriculture on charges of aggravated sodomy and…

  • Summer Rain, now on kindle

    So I spend all week editing a book that’s set in Indiana University, and my news feeds explode with news about IU basketball. Weird how that works sometimes. Anyway, I’m proud to announce that my first book, Summer Rain, is now available in a new edition on the Kindle, and will soon be available in…

  • My new book, The Earworm Inception, also in paperback

    You know that new book I posted about the other day?  Well, the print version is now available, too.  So if you’re not cool with all this kindle stuff and still like to read your books dead tree style, check it out over at amazon. The print version is 134 pages, and costs $8.99.  It’s…

  • My new book, Fistful of Pizza, is available now

    I am happy to announce that my new book, Fistful of Pizza, is now available at the following places: On the Kindle for only 99 cents here. In print at Lulu.com for $8.74 here. In print at Amazon.com for $12.99 here. Here’s the answers to some questions about this: What is it? Fistful of Pizza is…

  • Rumored to Exist eBook Now Available

    “One day in 1971, Ozzy and Tony Iommi took 47 hits of acid and just outside of Newark, New Jersey accidentally found the giant tablets of gold from which the Mormon religion was founded.  They decided it would be wise to melt it into a giant bong and take it on the road with them…