Oh hi there! I'm Peter Jennings from
Midland Ontario. I'm the author of six
books and currently working on
others. Let me tell you about a couple of
my books, "Why Being Happy Matters" is a book in which I have interviewed 37
people from around the world on the
subject of happiness, lots of fun!
Another book is "Shark Assault" an amazing story of survival. It tells a story of a nurse
from Orangeville Ontario who was
attacked twice by a shark in Mexico.
She nearly lost her life! She had her arm
amputated and yet she is probably one of
the most positive, happy, inspirational
people I've ever met. A real pleasure to
write about. A couple of books which
I've completed recently and for which
I'm looking for a publisher right now are,
"Until I smile with you" that's the story
of Ruth Lowe who wrote the song that
dynamited Frank Sinatra's career into
the stratosphere back in 1940,
I'll never smile again. The other book is,
"Pushing the Boundaries: How to make life awesomer." I've interviewed 30 people
from around the world who think
outside the box and I've been very
fortunate to get Jack Canfield, the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the
Soul series to write the foreword for
the book. Now some questions you've asked about:
How long does it take to write a
book? Well how long have you got? Ha ha.
Seriously, my books typically take a couple of years by the time I do the research
and do the interviews and then do the
writing or rewriting etc. Fiction of
course can take shorter, other books take
longer. There really is no norm.
Where do you get your ideas from for your books? Well I'm a lucky guy I seem to trip over
ideas, for instance a colleague of mine
lives in Nashville Tennessee where she
knows the family of Jackie Shane, the
late transgender R&B singer. The family
wants to get her story told and that
looks like that will be my next project.
So I just kind of fall into these things.
Any suggestions for me as an aspiring
writer? Yes. Write! That's what I tell people. I do a
lot of mentoring and I tell people the
more you can write the better you'll be at it.
Now listen I love writing and I love
answering questions about writing. If you
have a question for me please email me:
peter@peterjennings.me   I'll be
happy to answer, mentor, whatever I can
do to help.  That's peter@peterjennings.me
Thanks for listening. Cheers!
