J. Conrad Guest
In 1992 a man approached me to tell his story. His name was Joe January. A private investigator from the South Bronx , circa 1940, January can best be described as an indignant Humphrey Bogart. That encounter resulted in January’s Paradigm. Combined with volumes two, One Hot January, and three, January’s Thaw, they paint a profile of a man out of place, out of time.
January’s story is anything but just a story, despite spanning two centuries and dealing with time travel and alternate realities. The denouement is less than happily ever after (but such is life), and January at times comes across as a sort of comic book superhero. But in youth we often view ourselves as invincible, only later seeing the global repercussions of our actions. Yet given the chance to live life over again, who would turn their back? Hence the meat of January’s story is largely about regret: how, through his own foolishness, he lost the two women who meant the most to him.
Set against the backdrop of an alternate reality in which Germany won World War II, January’s tale is compelling, and I couldn’t be more pleased he chose me to tell it. I think I’ve managed to capture and remain true to his story as well as his voice.
As for me, my writing credentials include Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings, published by Second Wind Publishing, and January’s Paradigm, first published in 1998 by Minerva Press, London, England. Several of my short stories and non-fiction pieces have appeared on Internet publications, including Cezanne’s Carrot, Saucy Vox, River Walk Journal, 63 Channels, The Writers Post Journal and Redbridge Review. Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine published in November 2005 Mother’s Day: Coming to Terms with the Cruelty of Parkinson’s, a memoir chronicling my mother’s battle against Parkinson’s.
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