Entries by jasonpartin
Preface: A Part in History
My goal is to publish a narrative memoir that crosses genres and demographics, and can become other forms of media, like film, to facilitate a global conversation. I’m using feedback to write and rewrite a query letter to literary agents, but I don’t yet have a quick elevator-pitch, a summary delivered in the time it takes […]
Havana 2
“Partin was a big tough-looking man with an extensive criminal record as a youth. Hoffa misjudged the man and thought that because he was big and tough and had a criminal record and was out on bail and was from Louisiana, the home states of Carlos Marcello, the man must have been a guy who […]
Havana 3
“[Jimmy Hoffa’s] mention of legal problems in New Orleans translated into his insistence that Carlos Marcello arrange another meeting with Partin, despite my warning that dealing with Partin was fruitless and dangerous.” “He wanted me to get cracking on the interview with Partin. In June, Carlos sent word that a meeting with Partin was imminent […]
Havana 3
“We can report that Edward G. Partin has been under investigation by the New Orleans District Attorney’s Office in connection with the Kennedy Assassination investigation… based on an exclusive interview with an Assistant District Attorney in Jim Garrison’s office. We can report that Partin’s activities have been under scrutiny. In his words: “We know that […]
Testing different chapter layouts
Wrestling Hillary Clinton: A Memoir
Query about representing a memoir
To All Literary Agents: I’m querying a narrative memoir centered around the deaths of my mother and grandfather, told in two parts interlaced like halves of a deck of cards riffle shuffled together. Combined, they tell a bigger story that begins on March 1st, 2019, when I was in Cuba researching my grandfather’s role in […]