Backstop: A Baseball Love Story In Nine Innings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540755001)

J. Conrad's first novel, January's Paradigm, was published in 1998. Current Entertainment Monthly in Ann Arbor, Michigan, wrote of January's Paradigm, "Readers will not be able to put it down." He has two other novels based on the Joe January character, One Hot January and January's Thaw. Backstop: A Baseball Love Story In Nine Innings was nominated a 2010 Michigan Notable Book, while the Lewis Department of Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology adopted it as required reading for their spring 2011 course, "Baseball: America's Literary Pastime". The Cobb Legacy is a murder mystery written around the shooting death of baseball legend Ty Cobb's father by his mother a week before Ty was called up by the Detroit Tigers. A Retrospect In Death portends not only a search for the meaning of life, but also seeks to determine why we are as we are: prewired at conception, or the product of our environment? Set during the golden era of motor racing, 500 Miles To Go follows young Alex Król as he seeks love while making his dream to win the Indianapolis 500 come true. A World Without Music is speculative fiction set against a backdrop of romance. Can a Gulf War veteran suffering PTSD leave behind his past to find the music that will make his life worth living? His fiction and essays appear in various online and print publications; Google him.