While he is now a successful author, he still works a day job as an editor. In doing so, he looks at the audience and how it will rise above the noise to attract his audience. Since he knows how hard it is to get anyone to read any pitch, he carefully considers how his work will be sold when writing.

As a publisher, he was used to constantly pitching books to neighbors and friends, booksellers, sales rep, and their own staff. His time as editor and publisher at Quirk taught Jason Rekulak many things about how books are sold. He started with the irreverent and gory “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” which went on to sell nearly 2 million copies. As such, he found it easier to make his own plots and get someone to write them. Given that Quirk never provided huge advances topping out mostly at $15,000, they got very few queries from writers and agents. Jason soon decided to branch into fiction but found it difficult to find works that were a good fit for the offbeat brand of his imprint. In time, the internet put to bed that niche as YouTube videos and humor blogs made one-note joke books pretty much dead.

He would then get hired as editor starting with a catalog of gag collections and goofy novelty. It was while he was working at small independent publisher Running Press that the met the founder of Quirk Books David Borgenicht. At Pennsylvania State University, he decided to study English after which he got employed by St. He loved writing for the aspects of game design and storytelling without having to code which he hated.

He was a very imaginative fellow and could create interesting worlds but was never a very good programmer. In College, Jason Rekulak studied programming but realized he was a misfit in the course when he took an elective. Writing as Miranda Clarke, he also wrote a choose your won adventure romance work.Īs such while The Impossible Fortress is the first under his name, it is strictly speaking not his debut. His anonymous works include HP Lovecraft-inspired middle-grade series he wrote as Charles Gilman. He usually works on these works on weekends and on the evenings whenever he has a great idea and cannot find a good writer for it. The former’s works have sold millions of copies over the years.Įven though the name Rekulak does not appear in many of his works, he has written more than a dozen works for the publishing house. He has also been involved in the nurturing of young writers who would become global stars such as Ransom Riggs and Ben H. Some of his works include “Pride and Prejudice and Zombie” by Seth Grahame0-Smith. He works a day job at a Philadelphia-based independent publishing house Quirk, where he has managed to engineer a string of bizarre bestselling titles. Jason Rekulak is a crime mystery and thriller author that is best known for his novel “The Impossible Fortress.”

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