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Jack Chase

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Jack Chase is an American novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and graphic designer. He is the founder of Abbycat Group & Publishing Brands, an independent publishing and intellectual-property studio established in 2025.

Chase is the author of “Made in America: or The Tragedy of Billy Castle and Unexpected Absolution of Dean Willis” (2025), “The Bastard of Taylor’s End” (2025), “Violent Crimes: The Butcher of Westchester” (2025), “Jokes About Suicide” (2026), and “The Schultz Brothers: An American Crime Saga” (2026), among other works spanning crime fiction, psychological drama, horror, black comedy, and historical fiction.

His writing is characterized by a cinematic approach to literary fiction, combining atmospheric prose and psychological in
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Jack Chase I wanted to do something big, and I became drawn to the challenge of bridging gritty hyperrealism with myth and the tones of old-world Greek tragedy, …moreI wanted to do something big, and I became drawn to the challenge of bridging gritty hyperrealism with myth and the tones of old-world Greek tragedy, but making it feel seamless rather than stylized. Archer Stone was the root of everything. I was too enamored with the character to stop, and the story kept expanding until it finally locked into place. It was the most fun I’ve ever had writing, like plugging into another world every day. I didn’t have it all figured out, even halfway through. To this day I’m still discovering things in the book that feel intentional in hindsight.

As for New York, I’ve only been once, at eighteen, but I grew up obsessed with crime dramas and naturalistic cinema set there. When I visited, I was lucky to have my aunt, who’s an expert at navigating cities, so I absorbed as much as I could. I already had projects percolating in that world, so I walked around imagining scenes and clocking landmarks. In the end, if it reads as more than just a backdrop, I’m flattered. I trusted my intuition, my memory, and a lifelong draw to cinema, and hoped it would land.(less)
Jack Chase A lot changed, and a lot didn’t.

The ending itself was always the ending. The scene with Roman and Luciano, along with the final chapters, had been wri…more
A lot changed, and a lot didn’t.

The ending itself was always the ending. The scene with Roman and Luciano, along with the final chapters, had been written for quite some time and were basically waiting for the rest of the book to catch up to them. So in that sense, I had been building toward the same destination for years.

What changed significantly was how I got there. The exact mechanics of the climactic heist, a lot of the deception around it, and some of the more complicated undercurrents were developed much later, once my older outlines and treatments started running out of road near the end of Act IV. By then the story had also spent years moving through different forms, from feature film to pilot to novel, so the book had accumulated a lot more character history and narrative weight than those earlier versions ever had room for.

Act V itself came together very quickly, probably in two weeks, maybe less. By that point I knew I had to finish the book, and frankly, I was just done with it. Weirdly, that urgency helped. The flashback chapter that opens Act V was something I’d wanted to do for years without ever fully laying it out, and writing it more spontaneously ended up making it one of my favorite sections of the novel.

So the destination stayed remarkably consistent. The route became much more complex once the story finally found its full form as a novel.
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The Bastard of Taylor's End

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The real story behind Made in America — four years, loss, and proof of origin

New longform is live:
I just published a behind-the-scenes piece about how Made in America was actually written — process, whiteboards, 2021 screenplay photos, the four-year timeline, and what I lost to finish it.

Full piece on Medium here:
https://medium.com/@jackchasenovels/h...

(If anyone reads it, would love to know which part hit you the hardest.) Read more of this blog post »
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"I somehow read Made in America first, then The Bastard of Taylor’s End, and still managed to leave The Schultz Brothers sitting on my shelf like a dunce. This was a mistake, though one since corrected.

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"I went into The Schultz Brothers expecting a big crime novel. I didn’t expect it to be this good. The opening bank robbery tells you immediately what kind of book you’re in: disciplined, violent, cinematic, and aggressively uninterested in playing sa" Read more of this review »
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"This is a well-plotted short story. A Western, of sorts. The characters are well drawn and there are some twists and turns to keep the reader interested. I will check out other work by this writer. Recommended.

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" I will be too, Marcy. i will be too. Thank you! "
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