Instead of becoming a rock star or Army general, I'm an elementary school teacher. This school year, for only the third one in decades, I will not have a class. I will coordinate curriculum. Wish me luck!

I've always loved stories. And writing.

FINISHED WORK:

QUIET - A slowburn YA thriller with a touch of romance and the paranormal. Makiko Lombardi, the 16 year-old daughter of a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, has to manipulate a demon who likes her in order to escape Yakuza determined to kidnap her.

VINTAGE ROB - A slowburn suspense without any paranormal. Robert Pirone, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, goes to Tokyo to win over his estranged teenage daughter, Makiko, and accidentally turns her into a target.

LOUD - A suspense without any paranormal. Robert Pirone, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, has incriminating photographs of a Hollywood superstar. The superstar's fixer decides threatening Rob's estranged daughter Makiko is the best way to protect the actor's career.

ONGOING WORK:

REVIEWS OF TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED WRITING BOOKS - I will publish more fiction, but it probably won't be until 2027 or so. In the meantime, I am cross-publishing book reviews I've already written. Read and star if you like, but I am not doing any read-for-reads for the reviews. (I may for my fiction though!)

More about me:

日本語 で簡単にできる。練習しようかな。でも多分難しすぎると思おう。頭が石から。

If you follow/unfollow, please don't bother. I'll notice and set you completely free.

If you don't follow back, well, I probably won't stick around. If you're not interested in my writing journey, I'm not interested in yours. But namaste, big fellah, namaste!

On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JonathanPeto

If you want to know more about me as a reader, check out my Goodreads account:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4107370-jonathan-peto
  • 日吉, Yokohama, Japan
  • JoinedNovember 7, 2020


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JonLeePeto JonLeePeto Nov 04, 2025 03:45AM
I wrote down this quote from one of my writing books and forget which one:“Overplay your tensions, or underplay them, or ignore them, and almost certainly your story will fail to satisfy."It's wort...
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