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Unedited: From Idea to Manuscript and Shelf to Screen
Whether you're an aspiring writer, an established author, a story professional, or just a story junkie, Unedited is a behind-the-scenes trip into all facets of the global story economy. Join us for a discussion of all things story, from idea to manuscript and shelf to screen with the globe's best writers, book professionals, booksellers, and adaptation stakeholders. We’re going to keep it informed, unfiltered, and unedited—not a salon, think a bar, whatever your drink or genre of choice.
Before he was published, Tom Clancy sold insurance. Stephen King worked in a laundromat. J.K. Rowling was a secretary. Wherever you work and whoever you are, welcome to Unedited: From Idea to Manuscript and Shelf to Screen.
Unedited: From Idea to Manuscript and Shelf to Screen
Chase Pletts: From Brooklyn to Los Angeles to the Dakota frontier with ELDON QUINT
Chase Pletts joins us for the seventh episode of Unedited: From Idea to Manuscript and Shelf to Screen. We discuss his journey from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and from a young reader of Jack London to a winner of not one but two SPUR awards from the Western Writers of America. Chase also discusses the path from screenwriter to novelist (and then back to screenwriter) and the imperative of mining the pain of one’s own life to suffuse the fictional with reality.
At seven years old, banished to the bedroom during an adults-only holiday party, Chase Pletts discovered a videotape of The Exorcist and popped it into the VCR. The nightmares only lasted a few years, but his fascination with storytelling has lasted a lifetime. A screenwriter and Spur Award-winning author of The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint, Chase also moonlights with an AI company, doing everything he can to prevent Skynet. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.
This podcast was recorded before the fires devastating Los Angeles, including the Glendale area in which our guest, Chase Pletts, lives. So many of our writers, friends, colleagues, and even family are in or around the path of the fire. Hoping for low winds and containment soon.