Joe Faust

Background

Faust was born in Williston, North Dakota, but claims Gillette, Wyoming as his adopted home town.

Career

His novels are known for their tightly controlled plots and their sense of humor. Like many authors, he draws inspiration from previous and current occupations, including projectionist, record store clerk, radio announcer, sheriff"s dispatcher, and advertising copywriter. He currently works as a freelance writer alongside other creative projects such as occasional forays into cartooning and songwriting.

From 2001 to 2008, he served as a freelance producer for a local cable music program, Random Acts of Music.

He currently lives with his family in his wife"s ancestral home in Ohio—a 140-year-old plot of land signed over to the family by President James K. Polk. He enjoys reading, firearms, listening to music on his iPod, and good chili.

Other interests include the creative process, songwriting, playing guitar, home recording, and community theater. He currently works as a copywriter at an advertising firm while maintaining his career as a freelance writer, and while not getting his books ready for re-publication as ebooks, is writing a new novel about UFOs.

On February 16, 2011, Faust announced on his blog that he had created a publishing company called as an organ to distribute his out-of-print novels in ebook formats.

Releases began with the Amazon Kindle version of "A Death of Honor" on June 9, the previously unpublished "The Mushroom Shift" on December 12, 2011, and "The Company Manitoba" on July 14, 2012. Another previously unpublished novel, "Trust" is scheduled to for publication as well. Faust also announced the completion of a new novel in the same post.

On December 13, 2014, Amazon"s Kindle Press announced selection of Faust"s thriller "Drawing Down the Moon" from the Kindle Scout program for publication.

As with all Kindle Scout participating writers, Faust had entered his novel into the program the previous month for a 30 day period in which readers could nominate his work. According to Amazon"s Kindle Scout, "Kindle Scout is reader-powered publishing for new, never-before-published books

lieutenant’s a place where readers help decide if a book gets published."

Drawing Down the Moon "s publication marks the first time Faust has published a novel outside of the science fiction genre (with the exception of his own "s release of The Mushroom Shift) as well as his first newly written published novel since 1997.

Achievements

• Addy Award (Canton Ad Club) for Copywriting - 1988 - 1997 - 1998.