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J T PETTY
JT Petty is the author of four YA fantasy books listed below. He is also a director and screenwriter for movies and video games. His film Soft for Digging was an Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival. He received a Game Developers Choice Award for his work on the bestselling video game Splinter Cell. JT lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit his Web site at www.pettyofficial.com.
Books:
Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer
Clemency Pogue: The Hobgoblin Proxy
Clemency Pogue: The Scrivener Bees
The Squampkin Patch: A Nasselrogt Adventure
Movies:
Mimic 3: Sentinel (SF / Horror)
Soft for Digging (Horror)
S&Man (Documentary)
Games:
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Batman Vengeance
MEETING SUMMARY:
Meeting Date: November 10, 2007.
Meeting Site: Saddle River Valley Cultural Center.
Official Attendance: 22.
Meeting Program: Talk by Children's Fantasy Writer / Movie Director.
Notes:
There was a bit of drama leading up to this meeting. Signs advertising impending road construction and road closures delayed the transmission of our newsletter and meeting notice. Alternate meeting sites were investigated. It was ultimately determined that West Saddle River Road would indeed be passable during the weekend and the meeting was held without incident.
Meeting Memories:
We always invite our guests to bring along books, videos, and other materials to sell at the meeting. Mr Petty brought copies of his books and DVDs and generously told people to take whatever they wanted. I am glad to say that at least a couple of us thust some money in his hands so that he was at least reimbursed for gas and tolls.
Newsletter Account:
The following is reprinted with permission from THE STARSHIP EXPRESS Copyright 2007 Philip J De Parto.
J T Petty operates in a multitude of media. He is a writer of the children's books CLEMENCY POGUE: FAIRY KILLER, CLEMENCY POGUE: THE HOBGOBLIN PROXY, CLEMENCY POGUE: THE SCRIVENER BEES and THE SQUAMPKIN PATCH: A NASSELROGT ADVENTURE.
He is a horror movie writer and director whose work includes SOFT FOR DIGGING, MIMIC 3: SENTINEL, and the forthcoming BURROWERS, as well as a documentary about horror films, S&MAN (pronounced "Sandman").
He has also worked on the video game adventures SPLINTER CELL: PANDORA and BATMAN: VENGEANCE. He currently has a pair of graphic novels in production.
Mr Petty attended NYU film school where he shot SOFT FOR DIGGING as his senior thesis. It attracted notice at the Sundance Film Festival and led to an offer to write a script for what turned out to be the third installment in the MIMIC series, a direct-to-video low budget flick he described as REAR WINDOW with giant insects. He jumped when the company asked him if he'd like to fly to eastern Europe to direct the film.
He began writing the Clemency Pogue books to keep his sanity while working on SPLINTER CELL which he described as a Tom Clancy tie in where you shoot foreigners to keep America safe. There was much more to this fun meeting than is transcribed here.