Posts by Peter Colt
On Writing
I get asked a lot of questions about how one gets to be a writer. What should someone do if they want to be a writer. I’d like to say that there is a simple answer, do X or Y enough and you too can be a writer. I don’t have a pat answer…
Read MoreMy Local Paper
I moved to Rhode Island in 1986 from Nantucket. On Nantucket there were two papers that were king; The Inquirer Mirror (The Inky Mirror or just The Inky) and the Boston Globe. When I moved to Providence one thing became apparent, this was a one-paper town. That paper was and still is The Providence Journal…
Read MoreMY BOOKS MAKE PEOPLE HUNGRY
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more MY BOOKS MAKE PEOPLE HUNGRY Writing food so you like my guy. Peter Colt Aug 8 READ IN APP Same risotto but with saffron instead of roasted red pepper. When my then girlfriend, now Long-Suffering Wife moved in with me twenty years ago there were some changes that I had…
Read MoreThe Process
I don’t know if I always knew I wanted to be a writer or if I figured it out along the way. I can’t sit here and proclaim that since I was five, I wanted to be a writer. When I was five, I wanted to be an astronaut, a cowboy, a soldier, a pilot,…
Read MoreTHE RUN
When I enlisted in the Army in 1991 at the tender age of 18 the world was a very different place. In 1991 I had a few other friends who also enlisted but for the most part it was a rarity. Most of my friends at the time didn’t understand why I would want to…
Read MoreSOUNDTRACK
I have been writing books for a few years now. Short stories too. I have even been known to write some bad poetry on occasion. Don’t worry about the last one, you’ll never see it. I wouldn’t inflict that type of misery on anyone I didn’t actually love. No matter what I am writing or…
Read MoreI have a substack!
I have a substack! Going forward I will post my blogs and musing here and there. Check it out. https://open.substack.com/pub/pcolt/p/substack?r=43bho8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Read MoreA DAY LATE
Yesterday was the Fourth of July. I spent the day in a very non celebratory fashion, doing yardwork and editing. Last week we had a tornado touch down in my neighborhood. My friends who live in Tornado Alley would scoff. “An EF-1, bah, that’s nothing.” They might say. Trees and limbs came down, power went…
Read MoreHappy Birthday U.S. Army!
You Say it’s your Birthday… I have a lot of friends who are Marines. They are understandably proud and needless to say there is a lot of good-natured, inter-service, ribbing. And while I would never admit this to any of their faces, because I would never hear the end of it, there are a lot…
Read MoreThe Devil’s in the Details
I am militant about research. It sounds funny because I write “tough guy” detective novels, not works of great historic or social importance. Nope, I am a guy trying to entertain his readership. I want you to take my books to the beach or to help you pass a couple-hour layover in a busy airport.…
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