Author Biography

Chance B. Conner is a career journalist who worked for The Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, USA Today, other newspapers and several magazines. He also has written three original screenplays.

“Career Killer,” Conner’s first novel, examines the rise and fall of newspaper reporter Jack Clancy, whose cockiness and sometimes reckless style land him in trouble and often get him out of it as well. “Career Killer” takes place during several iconic events in contemporary U.S. history – the Challenger space shuttle explosion, Oklahoma City bombing, JonBenet Ramsey murder, Columbine High School massacre and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

It is a story of love and betrayal, of loss and redemption, during which actor Robert Redford passes in and out of Jack Clancy’s life like some kind of apparition and, ultimately, a muse.

Conner, a film, hiking, cooking and sports buff with a weakness for Labrador retrievers, lives in Denver, Colorado. His second novel, “Career Inferno,” follows Jack Clancy’s habit of blowing up his life, then restoring it. Conner is currently working on a third Jack Clancy novel.