Rumored.com
Title
Rumored.com - the homepage and writing projects of Jon Konrath
Description
I'm Jon. I was legally born Jonathan Robert Konrath on January 20, 1971, at Grand Forks AFB, ND. Since then I've lived in Edwardsburg, MI (1972-1978); Elkhart, IN (1978-1991); Bloomington, IN (1989-1995); Seattle, WA (1995-1999); Astoria, NY (1999-2005) and my current residence of New York, NY.
I went to college at Indiana University. After six years of wavering academics and working nearly full time for University Computing Services, I ended up with a consolation prize of a degree in General Studies. I was a writer back then, or at least I wrote in spiral notebooks and tried to work on a very Bukowski-like novel that still remains unfinished. I also put out five issues of a Death Metal zine called Xenocide, which was ahead of its time, despite the name I stole from Orson Scott Card. (It gained even more accidental press ten years later, when one of the regular contributors became a high-profile FBI terror suspect and I came home from work with answering messages from pretty much every big media outlet and the FBI, because googling the dude's name brought up my web site.) Anyway, I didn't know what to do after college, or how to pay off my looming student loan debt, so I started faxing my resume to every tech-related job that might take me.
At that point, a friend of mine conned me into becoming a technical writer, and somehow pulled me into a job in Seattle. I was not plugged into the whole scene of flannel, coffee and Microsoft, but it was better than Indiana, and the money helped. So I kept writing, books and zines and short stories. I put out a print zine called Air in the Paragraph Line that didn't sell many copies, but got good reviews and had some great writing, plus it gave me the kick in the ass to turn out some good stories. And I made money at the day job, but I also spent money, so I was just as broke as when I made a buck more than minimum wage. I spent all of my time wondering if I should run off the Mexico City or Tangiers or Alaska or something, but then I had those damn car payments on my back.
