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  <name><![CDATA[J. Conrad Guest]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[J. Conrad Guest is cofounder of and cigar, fiction and non-fiction editor for The Smoking Poet. His first novel, January’s Paradigm, was published by Minerva Press, London, England. Current Entertainment Monthly in Ann Arbor, Michigan, wrote of January’s Paradigm, “(readers) will not be able to put it down.” He has another novel based on the Joe January character, January’s Penitence, being considered for publication. Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings is forthcoming from Second Wind Publishing. He recently finished work on a futuristic piece, Chaotic Theory, which explores the conjecture of how the flap of a butterfly’s wings in South America might result in a tornado in Texas. He has commenced his next major project, a murder mystery that spans generations and is based on the life of baseball immortal, Ty Cobb.

His fiction and essays appear in various online and print publications, including Cezanne’s Carrot, Saucy Vox, River Walk Journal, 63 Channels, The Writers Post Journal, Redbridge Review, and Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. J. Conrad’s short essay on the writing life appears in the 2008 edition of Bylines Calendar — a 2006 finalist for the Walter Williams Award, given by the Missouri Writers’ Guild. Cofounder and fiction, non-fiction and cigar editor for The Smoking Poet, he is also a contributing writer to Impact Times, and his sports writing can be found at Bleacher Report.
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  <title><![CDATA[January's Paradigm]]></title>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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