R.T. Jordan | Disney & Polly

May 30, 2008

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Raised in Peabody, Massachusetts, R.T. Jordan moved to Los Angeles when he was nineteen and is only now beginning to look back. Although he believes that he has always been a writer, he first began to earn a living in this manner as the staff writer in the feature film marketing department of The Walt Disney Studios. “It was the best of times. It was he worst of times,” Jordan says of his nearly two decades in that position. “Although the deadlines were a horror, the writing and rewriting gave me discipline, and the understanding that there are many ways to spin a story,” Jordan says. “In retrospect, I see that those years were better than a Master’s program in creative writing because - by pumping out prose twelve hours a day and on nearly 400 films - I honed what little skill I had and developed what I hope is a breezy style of writing.” During those years, while still writing for Disney, Jordan found time to complete his first book, BUT DARLING, I’M YOUR AUNTIE MAME!, a nonfiction history of the famous character created by author Patrick Dennis. He went on to write four novels and three novellas (summer beach reading books written under a pen name he says he’d rather not acknowledge) for Kensington Publishing Corp. He then switched to the cozy mystery genre. http://www.pollypeppermysteries.com/ http://rtjordan.com/

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