'Round Midnight

by Quintin Peterson

Overview

WINNER OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY WRITERS ASSOCIATION'S 2012 WRITING CONTEST, BEST SHORT STORY CATEGORY


My contribution to the anthology of paranormal short fiction, From Shadows & Nightmares is an unusual offering. I am known for crime writing and considered it an interesting challenge to generate a ghost story rooted in the crime fiction genre. So, I combined a cop story with a ghost story and came up with ‘Round Midnight, the chronicle of a DC cop’s on and off-duty ghostly encounters with a childhood friend who died in his youth. Hauntings can be murder.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014516525
Publisher:	Ram Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/16/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	20 KB

About the Author

Quintin Peterson is the author of several plays and screenplays. He is a native Washingtonian.

As a junior high school student, he attended the Corcoran School of Art on a scholarship. While still in high school, he was honored with the University of Wisconsin’s Science Fiction Writing Award and the National Council of Teachers of English Writing Award. Upon receiving the Wisconsin Junior Academy’s Writing Achievement Award, his name was included in Who’s Who Among American High School Students of 1975.

As an undergraduate communications major at the University of Wisconsin, he wrote and performed in two plays for stage and videotape and received a Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation grant for his play project, Change. A National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and a playwriting grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities followed. Subsequently, two of his radio plays were aired on WPFW-FM Pacifica Radio as productions of the Minority Arts Ensemble’s Radio Drama Workshop ’79.
Mr. Peterson was a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., for more than 28 years, where he was assigned for most of his career to its Public Information Office as a media liaison officer and as the liaison between the department and members of the motion picture and television industries, acting as a script consultant and technical adviser. He also wrote and narrated training films for the police department. In December of 2010, he became an employee of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Department of Safety and Security.

An Active Member of Mystery Writers of America, Police Writers, and the Public Safety Writers Association, he is the author of a book of poetry, Nativity; two crime novels, SIN and The Wages of SIN; is a contributor to three anthologies, D.C. Noir, edited by George Pelecanos, Bad Cop, No Donut, edited by John L. French; and From Shadows and Nightmares, edited by Amber L. Campbell; and has penned several e-stories available via Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook.