Jon Pepper

Jon Pepper is a novelist, entrepreneur, and consultant based in New York City. His satirical novels have won praise from critics and readers alike for their humor, insight, clear prose, and brisk pacing. In Jon's newest novel, "Hostile Climate," an ambitious politician’s campaign to blame Lindsey Harper Crowe and her company for climate change creates dangerous situations for Lindsey and New York City. Reviewers call the book "clever and wickedly entertaining," "a page-turner," and "a great story." "Hostile Climate" is the fifth book in Jon's series, "Fossil Feuds," centered on the wealthy Crowe family's New York-based energy empire. Intra-family warfare, executive rivalries, crosstown competitors, government regulators, and climate activists threaten to bring it all down. The Crowe family's battles are sometimes petty, sometimes mean, but they're always lively, amusing, and deeply human. A native of Michigan, Jon won numerous awards as a national writer and business columnist for The Detroit News. He subsequently became the president of a media firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an executive for two Fortune 100 companies before starting his own strategic communications agency, Indelable, in New York. The first book in the series, "A Turn in Fortune," focuses on insecure company chairman Robbie Crowe's jealous rage over press acclaim for his highly successful CEO Walker B. Hope. A showdown looms; Crowe Power is big, but not big enough for the both of them. "Heirs on Fire" follows Robbie Crowe's fight for respect and recognition while dealing with an estranged wife, a manipulative mistress, a takeover threat, and a possible revolt in his storied family. The New York Post called it "a clever corporate satire." Kirkus Reviews recommended "Heirs on Fire" and said it was "wickedly funny." Lindsey Harper Crowe, the first woman leader in the company's long history, is under pressure from climate activists, a hedge fund manager, and a business rival in "Green Goddess." She needs to either find or convincingly fake common cause with her critics or she could lose the business. In recommending "Green Goddess," Kirkus Reviews said the book was "a rollicking ride... as humorous as it is astute." "Missy's Twitch," the fourth book in the series, tells the tale of Missy Mayburn Crowe, a sixth-generation heiress to a fortune built on fossil fuels who is stricken with overwhelming anxiety over what she believes is a looming "climate apocalypse." One reviewer called it "a biting and engaging satire on climate hysteria." Jon's career as a journalist, executive and entrepreneur gave him a front row seat in the corner suites, estates, private jets and first-class hotels where the business elite dwell. With an eye for human quirks and vanities, Jon captures the multiple dimensions of life in executive suites with entertaining accuracy. "I've always loved good satires about the business and political elites and the various pressures that guide decision-making for better and for worse," Jon says. "The goal of my books is to immerse readers in that world, make them laugh and make them think." Jon and his wife Diane, who designed the covers of all his books, reside in Manhattan.