About

J. H. Bográn was born and raised in Honduras. Although he’s the son of a journalist, he ironically prefers to write fiction rather than fact. He majored in Business Administration and has worked in the textile industry for past twenty years.

His debut novel Treasure Hunt, which The Celebrity Café hails as an intriguing novel that provides interesting insight of architecture and the life of a fictional thief, has also been selected as the Top Ten in Preditors & Editor’s Reader Poll.

Firefall, his second novel, is scheduled for release in the second half of 2013 by Rebel ePublishers. The short story The Assassin’s Mistress was selected for inclusion into the Death Toll anthology, where he shares the cover with bestselling authors Stephen Leather, Alex Shaw and Liam Saville among others.

José's genre of choice is Thrillers, but he likes to throw in a twist of romance into the mix, and has recently complicated plots by venturing into the Fantasy realm with his novella Deeds of a Master Archer.

In his native Spanish, he’s collaborated in three 20-episode TV serials for domestic broadcasting, and has penned two screenplays; the latest one for the movie Once Cipotes that will be released in 2013. Letra Negra Editores published his novel Heredero del Mal, to Central America market, in 2007.

He’s a member of the Short Fiction Writers Guild and the International Thriller Writers where he also serves as the Thriller Roundtable Coordinator and contributor editor their official e-zine The Big Thrill.

He lives in Honduras with his wife and three boys, and one "Lucky" dog.

PS: About the picture above. During my participation in the 2010 ThrillerFest, I toured The Intrepid Museum and got aboard U.S.S. Growler. I figured that nothing could be better for a thriller author than a picture aboard a submarine that had carried nuclear weapons.