J. G. Sandom, often referred to as the “Father of Interactive (Internet) Advertising,” co-founded the world’s first interactive advertising agency, Einstein and Sandom Interactive (EASI), in 1984, before launching an award-winning writing career.
He is the author of eleven works of fiction, including 404 – A John Decker Thriller and THE WAVE – A John Decker Thriller; THE GOD MACHINE – A Joseph Koster Mystery and GOSPEL TRUTHS – A Joseph Koster Mystery; THE WALL STREET MURDER CLUB; THE PUBLICIST (authored under pen name Veronica C. Wright); THE BLUE MEN; plus YA novels dEATH in dAVOS; KISS ME, I’M DEAD; CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BODY SNATCHER; and THE SEED OF ICARUS.
Born in Chicago (December 19th, 1956), raised in Europe, and an alumnus of Winchester College (Hampshire, England) and Amherst College (in Massachusetts, where he won the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Corbin Prize), Sandom moved to New York City in 1979 where, for the next five years, he worked as a freelance copy writer, public relations and advertising executive, and corporate spokesperson trainer for such companies as Hill & Knowlton and Ketchum Inc.
In 1984, Sandom co-founded Einstein and Sandom Interactive (EASI), the nation’s first interactive advertising agency. It grew to become the world’s largest digital marketing services firm when it was purchased by D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles in 1994.
From January 1997 through October 1999, Sandom served as Director of Interactive at OgilvyOne Worldwide, a division of ad agency giant Ogilvy & Mather, where he grew the company from a loss of $2 million to an estimated $100 million in revenues in North America, and from 12 “permalancers” to 650 digital marketing specialists worldwide and global billings of $300 million in just 30 months. In 1998, OgilvyInteractive was named “Best Interactive Ad Agency” of the year by Adweek, and won two premier Cyber Lions awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
From November 1999 through October 2003, Sandom served as President and CEO, and then Vice Chairman of RappDigital Worldwide, the interactive arm of direct marketing/direct response agency giant Rapp Collins Worldwide, an Omnicom Company. Within a year of inception, RappDigital became one of the nation’s “Top Twenty” interactive ad agencies, according to Adweek.
After becoming a single father following 9/11, Sandom raised his daughter and pursued his writing career, while occasionally consulting in the world of digital marketing. Once his daughter was old enough and he could start a new business, following the death of his father, Sandom launched Mnemania, parent company of Cremstar and MemoryBox. The company has since merged with Spring Holding Group, where Sandom serves as Chair and CEO.
Following the release of THE SEED OF ICARUS (1975) and THE BLUE MEN (1981), GOSPEL TRUTHS – A Joseph Koster Mystery was published by Bantam/Random House in 1992 (and re-issued in 2007). Since then, Sandom has written THE WAVE – A John Decker Thriller and 404 – A John Decker Thriller, THE GOD MACHINE – A Joseph Koster Mystery, THE PUBLICIST (under pen name Veronica C. Wright) and THE WALL STREET MURDER CLUB (optioned by Warner Bros. for a major motion picture).
While known mostly as a writer of thrillers and mysteries, Sandom is also the author of several award-winning Young Adult (YA) novels, including KISS ME, I’M DEAD (formerly titled THE UNRESOLVED and released under pen name T.K. Welsh – August 2006) and CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BODY SNATCHER (formerly titled RESURRECTION MEN and released under pen name T.K. Welsh – Spring 2007), both from Penguin/Dutton.
New editions of both books were released by Cornucopia Press in 2010 in both softcover and eBook form under the author’s birth name, and in a collection titled TWO TEEN TERRORS. In 2016, Sandom released the first book in a new series called The Robin Beauvais Manifestos, dEATH in dAVOS, also from Cornucopia Press.
On the 120th anniversary of the General Slocum disaster featured in KISS ME, I’M DEAD, Cornucopia Press has reissued the title in hardcover, softcover, and eBook (Kindle) formats.
See the author’s Wikipedia and Amazon pages.
BOOKS
YA
The Seed of Icarus
1975
[Unpublished]
Kiss me, I’m dead
2006, 2010, 2024
[Originally titled The Unresolved under pen name T.K. Welsh.
Foreign edition in German.]
On the 120th Anniversary of the General Slocum disaster, this award-winning novel has also been translated into German by Jörg Weese and released under the title Die Unerloste (The Unredeemed).
Born in Kulmbach (Northern Bavaria / Germany) in 1973, Jörg Weese specializes in Sci/Fi/Fantasy short fiction and humor.
Confessions of a Teenage Body Snatcher
2007, 2010
Two Teen Terrors
2010
[Both Kiss Me, I’m Dead &
Confessions of a Teenage Body Snatcher]
dEATH in dAVOS
A Robin Beauvais Manifesto
2016
ADULT NOVELS
The Blue Men
1981, 2024
404
A John Decker Thriller
2014
The Wave
A John Decker Thriller
2002, 2010
Gospel Truths
A Joseph Koster Mystery
1992, 2007
[Foreign edition in Spanish under La Fuente de la Verdad, stolen by publisher Factoria de Ideas, founded by Juan Carlos Poujade and Miguel Ángel Álvarez Blanco, who never paid any royalties to the author in a flagrant violation of international copyright law. If you see it, steal it, as they are stealing from the author. But don’t buy it.]
The God Machine
A Joseph Koster Mystery
2009
[Foreign edition in Turkish and Spanish.]
The Wall Street Murder Club
1993, 2013
[Originally titled The Hunting Club. Optioned by Warner Bros. for theatrical development. Foreign editions in German, Dutch, Danish and Japanese.]
