J.T. Ellison

J.T. Ellison
Photo credit: Chris Blanz, Cabedge
Born Orlando, Florida, USA
Occupation Author
Nationality American
Education Randolph-Macon Woman's College, George Washington University
Genre Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Spouse Married
Website
www.jtellison.com

J.T. Ellison is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including When Shadows Fall, Edge of Black, and A Deeper Darkness, and is the co-author of the Nicholas Drummond series with #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter. Her work has been published in over twenty countries. Her novel The Cold Room won the ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original and Where All The Dead Lie was a RITA Nominee for Best Romantic Suspense. Ellison currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband.

Background

Ellison was born outside of Orlando, Florida and moved to rural Colorado when she was two, then to Washington, D.C. at the age of fourteen. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College with a double major in Politics and English Creative Writing and a minor in Economics, then received her Master's degree from George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management. Ellison was a presidential appointee and worked in The White House and the Department of Commerce before moving into the private sector to work as a financial analyst and marketing director for several defense and aerospace contractors.[1]

Writing career

When Ellison's college advisor told her that her writing wasn't good enough to be published, Ellison changed her plan to get a Master's of Fine Arts and, instead, went into politics. Eight years later, while living in Nashville, Ellison was recuperating from a back injury when she first read the PREY series by John Sandford and rediscovered her love of storytelling.[2]

Ellison began to research her hidden passions: forensics and crime, and was compelled to begin writing down her stories. To research her books, she has worked with the Metro Nashville Police Department and the FBI, as well as performing autopsies and studying survivalists.[3]

She also writes under the name Andréa Ellison overseas (France and Holland/Belgium)[4]

Ellison is an active member of several professional writing organizations, including International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America and Romance Writers of America.

Ellison is a co-founder of Killer Year, an interactive society composed of 13 debut crime/mystery/suspense authors whose books were first published in 2007, creating an active online community and teaming authors with mentors from among the most established authors within the genre. The group was dedicated to furthering the writing, publishing and marketing goals of its members and the highly popular community involved readers, reviewers, and publishing professionals. A collection of short stories by the graduating class, including comments and contributions from seasoned vets such as Lee Child and Allison Brennan, was published to acclaim as Killer Year: Stories to Die For...From the Hottest New Crime Writers. Killer Year became the model for the International Thriller Writers debut author program, which Ellison helped develop.

Ellison also was one of the original members of, and a contributor to, the Anthony Award-nominated crime fiction blog, Murderati, which ran from 2006-2012 and is now an archive. She also contributed essays in volumes published by Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers and regularly blogs about the writing business on The Tao of JT.

Ellison also has an active following on Twitter under the name @Thrillerchick as well as a robust Facebook community.

Personal life

Ellison is married and lives in Nashville with her husband of many years, and two kittens.[5]

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Selected bibliography

Nicholas Drummond Novels with Catherine Coulter

Dr. Samantha Owens Series

Lieutenant Taylor Jackson Series

Short Stories Featuring Lieutenant Taylor Jackson

Short Stories

Non-Fiction

International Publishing

JT's books have been published in: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Phillipines, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

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