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On Writing

By Peter Colt / August 16, 2024 /

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…

My Local Paper

By Peter Colt / August 9, 2024 /

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…

MY BOOKS MAKE PEOPLE HUNGRY

By Peter Colt / August 8, 2024 /

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…

The Process

By Peter Colt / August 3, 2024 /

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,…

THE RUN

By Peter Colt / July 26, 2024 /

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…

SOUNDTRACK

By Peter Colt / July 18, 2024 /

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…

I have a substack!

By Peter Colt / July 13, 2024 /

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

A DAY LATE

By Peter Colt / July 5, 2024 /

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…

Happy Birthday U.S. Army!

By Peter Colt / June 14, 2024 /

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…

The Devil’s in the Details

By Peter Colt / May 29, 2024 /

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.…