About Josef-Konrad Radomski (and this site)

Josef-Konrad Radomski has been writing professionally for the past decade. He majored in journalism at Montreal’s Concordia University, and recently completed a certificate in television writing at UCLA.

His words typically appear in newspapers across North America (from the Atlanta Journal & Constitution to the late Rocky Mountain News) and in a consumer and trade magazines (such as Entertainment Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter). He also produces website content, writes qualitative marketing research reports, and has worked in corporate communications and public relations. You can find samples of his writing on the WORDS page.

J.K., as his friends call him, has also spent the last four years honing his craft as a screenwriter (specifically for television), and has written a number of spec screenplays and two pilots. He has also penned a handful of comic books scripts, one of which found its way into a 2007 anthology published by Young American Comics. You can find extracts from his screenplays and comic book scripts on the SCRIPTS page.

Aside from acting as a showcase for his work, this website and blog is also his virtual notebook. Here you will find his musings about the writing life and what he’s working on, the odd rant or rave, information of interest to budding screenwriters, and some practical advice for anyone hoping to break into journalism or magazine writing.

And in case you were wondering, Sophisticated Hokum stems from the critique a story analyst at Warner Bros. gave to an unproduced play called Everybody Comes to Rick’s back in 1940. The analyst described it as an “excellent melodrama” and “sophisticated hokum”, and suggested the studio purchase it at once. That play became the basis for Casablanca, one of the best movies ever written.