Patric Quinn

Patric Quinn was born in Jersey City, USA, a place full of street and educational experiences. The city was a playground that spread from the “notorious” Jersey Shore to metropolitan New York from Manhattan to Coney Island and all the rivers, bridges, subways and ferries that provided transportation through the days and nights of growing up “around home”. For young men of the time, turning eighteen years old meant turning your life in a new direction. The following years were full of movement and change that showed him other parts of the country for extended periods of time and some of the world beyond. He liked San Antonio, didn’t like Alabama and found Korea more elemental and dangerous than later serious challenges that required him to rise and grasp the situation. He learned from an early mistake to always do his best. Everything made him grow. He was the army private who became an officer, the stock boy who, in three years, was the business manager. He went into business for himself, grew more businesses out of one and was involved for years with customer people, employee people, business people of all stripes and with changing times. After business he spent years as a career counselor and began to write fiction which blended characters and his experiences he had known with contemporary events. His creative method is to settle on an idea he wants to write about, plug away at it until he breaks through to some flow and, then, chase it until his characters begin to tell him what they will and won’t do, how they will and won’t think, and just stay out of the way while they tell the story. Quinn has written a mystery thriller: “A Manuscript To Die For”, a romantic drama: “Reach for the Stranger”, and started other stories which haven’t caught fire, yet. He’s always wanted to write a western, but only has the character’s name, the action that sent him west and the final scene. He is presently having a fine time as a high school substitute teacher, thinks the kids are great (for the most part) and likes participating in their projects when they ask. Helping Media students with video creations has won him three annual media awards: Best Actor, Best Voice Over, and Best Poetic Video.