Raymond F. Quinton

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Bio

For most of his career, author, publisher, musician and semi-intellectual, Raymond Quinton feels like he’s been sitting in a theater watching a funny, tragic, hilarious movie about himself. It is a movie that dares the viewers to predict the outcome and is full of misdirection, irony and, well, stupid stuff. Quinton was gifted with an ear, eye and nose for irony and satire. Layered on that is a massive practical node. Quinton wrote his first self-help relationship handbook while he was marketing director for the second largest Video store chain in the US, Hollywood Video. It was a web ring best seller. He also wrote the first draft of his fiction crime thriller A Pitch in Crime at the same time, just for the hell of it. In his early days, he published the first Zine in Denver before Zines became a trend. Quinton has always been driven by the invisible hand of fate and destiny. While publishing in Denver, Quinton, a self-taught, self-Bill Evans stylized solo pianist, found himself playing a regular Friday happy-hour gig at Denver’s most popular jazz club, the Bombay Club, and soon tripped over a gig opening for Dizzy Gillespie at Union Station. You can’t make that kind of stuff up. At the writing of this bio, Quinton is biking through Germany, Switzerland, France and Denmark with his wife and finishing multiple manuscripts that he hopes will make the world a better place. Plus, as an expert marketer, he is also spending time on the marketing campaigns for FTNPress, his trademark publishing company.

(Raymond F. Quinton, July 2018)

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Books

A Pitch in Crime

front cover A Pitch in Crime by Raymond Quinton

Writing by the Seat of my Pants

For most of his career, author, publisher, musician and semi-intellectual, Raymond Quinton feels like he's been sitting in a theater watching a funny, tragic, hilarious movie about himself. It is a movie that dares the viewers to predict the outcome and is full of misdirection, irony and, well, stupid stuff. Quinton was gifted with an ear, eye and nose for irony and satire. Layered on that is a massive practical node. Quinton wrote his first self-help relationship handbook while he was marketing director for the second largest Video store chain in the US, Hollywood Video. It was a web ring best seller. He also wrote the first draft of his fiction crime thriller A Pitch in Crime at the same time, just for the hell of it. In his early days, he published the first Zine in Denver before Zines became a trend. Quinton has always been driven by the invisible hand of fate and destiny. While publishing in Denver, Quinton, a self-taught, self-Bill Evans stylized solo pianist, found himself playing a regular Friday happy-hour gig at Denver's most popular jazz club, the Bombay Club, and soon tripped over a gig opening for Dizzy Gillespie at Union Station. You can't make that kind of stuff up. At the writing of this bio, Quinton is biking through Germany, Switzerland, France and Denmark with his wife and finishing multiple manuscripts that he hopes will make the world a better place. Plus, as an expert marketer, he is also spending time on the marketing campaigns for FTNPress, his trademark publishing company.

 

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Stop Stuffin’ Your Pie Hole by bob Simmons

 

 

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