Maxine paetro author biography
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- Maxine Paetro is an American author who has been published since 1979.
- Maxine Paetro, formerly an advertising executive, began her writing career with a series of contributions to women's magazines.
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Maxine Paetro
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July 17, 2009
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Maxine Paetro collaborates with best–selling author James Patterson, co–writing The 4th Of July, The 5th Horseman, The 6th Target, The 7th Heaven, The 8th Confession, The 9th Judgment, 10th Anniversary and The 11th Hour, just released in May 2012. All are New York Times #1 best–sellers in the Women's Murder Club Series. Patterson/Paetro collaboration, New York Times #1 bestseller Swimsuit, was released on June 27, 2009. A first–class thriller, Swimsuit has been called "This generation's Silence of the Lambs." Paetro also collaborates with Patterson in their new series, Private, which debuted in January 2011. Their latest entry in this series, Private, #1 Suspect, was published in January 2012. Paetro has tea
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Maxine Paetro
My life has been a jumbled succession of accidents and incidents, tough luck, dumb luck, good breaks, and damned good breaks fueled by curiosity, fear, naivete, determination, and optimism.
In the late ‘60s, after two years of college – I dropped out — and after a year living and working as a shop-girl in London, I moved to New York and got a good dog, a walk-up apartment in the Village and like my father, I went into sales. From carrying 25 lb. electronic calculators through the meat market on Gansevoort Street in all kinds of weather, I realized that I would like sales better if I worked at a desk indoors.
I became a headhunter and recruiter and was assigned to a territory. My new specialty was finding jobs for “advertising agency creative people.” That job was one of those dumb luck things because I knew very little about advertising. But I took to it, made placements and new friends in advertising, and became an expert.
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This was a turning point in my career. I was hired by a large advertising agency to recruit creat
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Maxine Paetro
American author
Maxine Paetro is an American author who has been published since 1979. Paetro has collaborated with best-selling author James Patterson on the Women’s Murder Club novel series and standalone novels.
Biography
From 1975 until 1987, Paetro was a recruiter and EVP creative department manager at several large New York City advertising agencies. In 1979, Paetro published her first book, How to Put Your Book Together and Get a Job in Advertising, which received its fourth revision in August 2010. This non-fiction work has been described as “the advertising industry bible and ultimate insider's guide to getting in and getting noticed".[1]
Between 1986 and 1992, she published three novels: Manshare, Baby Dreams, and Windfall. In 1993, she collaborated with Dodd Darin to write the biography Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee.
In 2005, she began the first of more than thirty collaborations with best-selling author James Patterson, co-writing 4th of July for the Women’s Murder Clu