J. G. Sandom

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J. G. Sandom (born December 19, 1956) is an American businessman and author, who co-founded the nation's first digital advertising agency, Einstein and Sandom Interactive (EASI), in 1984. [1]

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Life and work

Sandom grew up in Europe, passing five years in Rome, and was educated at Winchester College. [2] In 1984, Sandom co-founded Einstein and Sandom Interactive (EASI). [1] In 1994 it was purchased by D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. [3] From January 1997 to October 1999, Sandom served as Director of Interactive at OgilvyOne Worldwide, [4] a division of Ogilvy & Mather. Sandom built OgilvyInteractive to $300 million in billings, [5] and Adweek credited him with turning Ogilvy's digital offering around. [6] From October 1999 Sandom served as President and CEO, and then Vice Chairman of RappDigital Worldwide, an arm of the agency Omnicom. [7] [8] [9]

Sandom is the author of eleven novels. He writes novels for adults under his own name and has used the pen name T.K. Welsh [10] for some of his young adult (YA) books. Ranked one of the Top Ten Children's Books of 2006 by the Washington Post, [11] his debut novel for young adults Kiss Me, I'm Dead (originally released under the title The Unresolved), was nominated for a Young Adult Library Services Association 2007 "Teens' Top Ten", [12] named a 2007 Association of Jewish Libraries "Notable Book for Teens" by the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee, [13] and nominated for the 2006 "Cybils" award. [14] The Washington Post said that Sandom "writes with a precision and delicacy unusual for YA fiction" [15] and called the novel, "a subtle gem". [10]

Sandom's novel, The Wave, was reissued in June 2010 by Cornucopia Press. Kirkus Reviews said Sandom's characterizations of heroes and "stock bad guys" were drifting into caricature but lauded the story's pacing, concluding: "A story with enough manic energy to be worthy of a nuclear explosion and enough to render moot any structural weaknesses in its architecture." [16]

Bibliography

TitlePublication date(s)ISBNTranslated title(s)Notes
The Seed of Icarus1975unpublished
The Blue Men1981 ISBN   978-0997673937
Gospel Truths1992, 2007 ISBN   978-0385422338 Spanish (La Fuente de la Verdad, unauthorized)A Joseph Koster Mystery
The Wall Street Murder Club1993, 2013 ISBN   978-0985695415 German (Kaltes Erwachen), Dutch (In het kille Ochtendlicht), Danish (Jagtklubben), Japanese (悪友クラブの殺人)Originally titled The Hunting Club. Optioned by Warner Bros. for theatrical development
The Publicist1996, 2011 ISBN   978-1463618896 Under the pen name Veronica Wright
The Wave2002, 2010 ISBN   978-1452839233 A John Decker Thriller
Kiss Me, I'm Dead2006, 2010, 2024 ISBN   978-0997673968/ ISBN   978-0997673951 German (Die Unerlöste)Originally titled The Unresolved under the pen name T.K. Welsh
Confessions of a Teenage Body Snatcher2007, 2010 ISBN   978-0525476993
The God Machine2009 ISBN   978-0553589979 Turkish (Tanrı Makinesi), Spanish (La Máquina de Dios, unauthorized)A Joseph Koster Mystery
Two Teen Terrors2010 ISBN   978-1453859056 Collecting Kiss Me, I'm Dead and Confessions of a Teenage Body Snatcher
4042014 ISBN   978-0985695484 A John Decker Thriller
dEATH in dAVOS2016 ISBN   978-0997673913 A Robin Beauvais Manifesto

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