About Peter Greene

Who cares, really? Well, someone must, so here goes:

I’m Peter Greene, an author from Arizona. A graduate of Theatre Education and Earth Science from Illinois State University, I began writing while in high school: short stories, screenplays, stage plays, a musical even.  So at the age of about fifty-three, I decided to try a novel. Collaborative art is fine, but it just takes too many people!  Have you ever seen the credits on a movie? That is a lot of collaboration. And rarely does anyone get to experience your work.

I wrote while I worked selling software to supply-chain and retail companies: on airplanes, in hotels, during cab rides, international flights—all that. Eventually, I completed The Adventures of Jonathan Moore, a three-book series. It was a critical success, I must say, and a financial flop. But I didn’t write the books for the money.

When I retired a few years back, I decided that Nautical Young Adult Fiction was not the most popular genre, so I decided to jump. SciFi would be easy, I thought, as I could just invent anything I wanted and zip around the universe. Then I got hung up on this concept of a ‘stranger in a strange land’ - but with a twist.  What if, instead of coming to Earth and screwing around with things, a young woman returned from Earth to her homeland on another planet? And then messed around with everything? 

Light of Ganymede was no picnic to research: 1950’s jet and rocket technology, the orbits of Jupiter and Ganymede, bio-luminescence, discrimination and bigotry in America, the history of war on Earth, radio wave speed, if one could fall into the water from 100 feet if the gravity was .4 G’s and not die, and songs popular in the ’40s and ’50s in Idaho. Whew, that made me wish for historical fiction research!

But Light of Ganymede was sure fun to write! I am just starting book 2 now in mid 2021.

I have a great wife, a couple of kids, and a dog. I have great friends, and I am thankful for them. I like to fish and eat pizza, but most of all, I really enjoy creating characters and telling stories.

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