Joseph Valentinetti is the author of Glint, Kill Me Tender, Tyler Palewhite: Soft-Boiled Detective, and others.
When he offered to interview me and post the interview on his site, I bit. (You can read the interview here – what I love about Joseph’s site is that I’m in the company of many other writers he interviewed, so there’s lots to browse through.)
Most interesting of all is Joseph Valentinetti’s own biography: he’s been a schoolteacher, a GI, he worked in public relations for the music industry, is a photography. He’s been a Public Guardian and a private detective. He also writes: “There is a block of time in this later period that I refer to as The Lost Years. I dropped out of high school because I didn’t see the connection between tin exports from Bolivia, solving for X and teachers who didn’t seem to understand the limits of their responsibilities, but, more likely it was because I didn’t understand the limitlessness of my own.”
He’s worth getting to know – and his books are an added treat!