J. G. Sandom (born December 19, 1956) is an American businessman and author, who co-founded the nation's first digital advertising agency, Einstein and Sandom Interactive (EASI), in 1984.
Life and work
Sandom grew up in Europe, passing five years in Rome, and was educated at Winchester College. In 1984, Sandom co-founded Einstein and Sandom Interactive (EASI). In 1994 it was purchased by D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. From January 1997 to October 1999, Sandom served as Director of Interactive at OgilvyOne Worldwide, a division of Ogilvy & Mather. Sandom built OgilvyInteractive to $300 million in billings, and Adweek credited him with turning Ogilvy's digital offering around.Rapp Collins evolves its old tricks and learns some new ones | Adweek From October 1999 Sandom served as president and CEO, and then vice chairman of RappDigital Worldwide, an arm of the agency Omnicom.Omnicom Group gains Critical Mass | News - Advertising Age
Sandom is the author of eleven novels. He writes novels for adults under his own name and has used the pen name T.K. Welsh for some of his young adult (YA) books. Ranked one of the Top Ten Children's Books of 2006 by the Washington Post, his debut novel for young adults Kiss Me, I'm Dead (originally released under the title The Unresolved), was nominated for a Young Adult Library Services Association 2007 "Teens' Top Ten", named a 2007 Association of Jewish Libraries "Notable Book for Teens" by the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee, and nominated for the 2006 "Cybils" award. The Washington Post said that Sandom "writes with a precision and delicacy unusual for YA fiction" and called the novel, "a subtle gem".
Sandom's novel, The Wave, was reissued in June 2010 by Cornucopia Press. Kirkus Reviews said Sandom's characterizations of heroes and "stock bad guys" were drifting into caricature but lauded the story's pacing, concluding: "A story with enough manic energy to be worthy of a nuclear explosion and enough to render moot any structural weaknesses in its architecture."
Bibliography Title Publication date(s) ISBN Translated title(s) Notes The Seed of Icarus 1975 unpublished The Blue Men 1981 Gospel Truths 1992, 2007 Spanish (La Fuente de la Verdad, unauthorized) A Joseph Koster Mystery The Wall Street Murder Club 1993, 2013 German (Kaltes Erwachen), Dutch (In het kille Ochtendlicht), Danish (Jagtklubben), Japanese (悪友クラブの殺人) Originally titled The Hunting Club. Optioned by Warner Bros. for theatrical development The Publicist 1996, 2011 Under the pen name Veronica Wright The Wave 2002, 2010 A John Decker Thriller Kiss Me, I'm Dead 2006, 2010, 2024 / German (Die Unerlöste) Originally titled The Unresolved under the pen name T.K. Welsh Confessions of a Teenage Body Snatcher 2007, 2010 The God Machine 2009 Turkish (Tanrı Makinesi), Spanish (La Máquina de Dios, unauthorized) A Joseph Koster Mystery Two Teen Terrors 2010 Collecting Kiss Me, I'm Dead and Confessions of a Teenage Body Snatcher 404 2014 A John Decker Thriller dEATH in dAVOS 2016 A Robin Beauvais Manifesto
References
External links J.G. Sandom's Work