Pop Culture Commentary with an Academic Slant

I’ve enjoyed JA Konrath’s writing for a while.  I read his blog whenever it updates, and I even downloaded his non-fiction ebook of collected essays on writing, The Newbie’s Guide to Publishing, for my Kindle and read a few entries a day.

One particular entry grabbed my attention more than others.  In it, Konrath talked about the process behind writing a high-concept technothriller called Origin in which scientists had found Satan and imprisoned him in an underground lab for study.  The novel never made it through the gatekeepers for one reason or another, and eventually, Konrath released it himself as an ebook.

The premise really interested me because I love a good technothriller, but I’m pretty tired of the DaVinci Code clones and their religious artifacts and conspiracy theories.  Even though Origin deals with a “religious artifact,” Satan himself a little unique than a piece of Noah’s Ark or Jesus’ genealogy.

And because I intended to read his fiction but never had, I figured Origin hit my genre tastes a little closer than crime fiction.  So I tossed my $3 to Amazon, and downloaded Origin to my Kindle.

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