Ask the Author: Peter Jarrette
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Peter Jarrette
How could a person from such a travelled diverse background as I struggle to gain the attentions of lit agents and publishers who claim to be looking for somethings new and untold? How does a unique person with a wide vein of experience succeed where derivative topics and populist subjects get published over and over again? The plot would be how I have worked over 40 years to get the attention of a world looking only for its own watered-down reflection. Niche would be proven not to be a 'small corner' but a wide and open world full of things that go bump in the night and things that bring hope of success. The criminal? Oh...that would be the cookiecutter publishing world.
Peter Jarrette
I write about it. I reflect the emotions in my characters' emotions. I don't block it out. I embrace it. We have blocks in all aspects of life and life itself is a continual block. Little to fear of a block now after all!
Peter Jarrette
Monday never has to be a Monday...it can be a Saturday...ANYWHERE!
Peter Jarrette
The same as was given me by Bushnell, "Write, write, write...the editors will always clean it up."
I suffer a slight dyslexia and typos and spelling errors were a frustration but I just get it down and go back to tidy it up before passing it onto proof readers...so you see it can be done. also in school English grammar was never my strong point but that didn't mean i couldn't tell/write riveting and emotional stories.
Write all at once or in bursts but remember the journey/destination so your story is tight.
I suffer a slight dyslexia and typos and spelling errors were a frustration but I just get it down and go back to tidy it up before passing it onto proof readers...so you see it can be done. also in school English grammar was never my strong point but that didn't mean i couldn't tell/write riveting and emotional stories.
Write all at once or in bursts but remember the journey/destination so your story is tight.
Peter Jarrette
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Peter Jarrette
I created and had published a cartoon strip in NYC in the 80's so I'm not new to telling stories and fabricating amusing/dramatic storylines. An early friendship with Sex and The City author Candace Bushnell landed us both contracts to write and have published children's books with Little Simon/Simon & Schuster. They, mine (a series of four activity rhyming readers) sold widely around the world into two or three editions in the end I think, hard back and soft cover. My career expanded into arts as a trained Parsons Art & Design student in Manhattan and I went on to work internationally in all disciplines. This gave me exciting stories of people/travel and cultures which, again on Candace's suggestion, I decided to remember in stories. I wrote my first manuscript 'Young and Pretty New York City (making editors rounds in the USA) and several more. To make a very long story short, I had a trilogy in the end with my first published book 'Brighton Babylon' (Dynasty Press Ltd) actually being the last book in the trilogy.
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