12/16/2023 0 Comments Jr writer chain![]() ![]() McKinty is repped by The Story Factory and CAA Wright by CAA, Independent Talent Group and Nelson Davis Goldman by Independent Talent Group and Salerno by CAA. I am so grateful and I hope my story inspires others.” I never imagined any of this could happen, but I hoped it would. I hope it inspires other writers who may be thinking about quitting, to never give up. “It’s a story about writers helping fellow writers. “My story is a story of never giving up,” McKinty told Deadline back then. It has been published in 41 countries and became a bestseller in 20 of them and made 25 best of the year lists and the paperback hasn’t yet dropped because it’s still selling well. McKinty agreed to give it one more try and that became The Chain, which ended McKinty’s Uber career. Once so despondent over his own paltry book sales that he pondered a return to an early side job as a safari tour guide, Winslow urged McKinty not to give up and sent him to his dealmaker Salerno. After he got evicted from his home, a frustrated McKinty wrote a fan letter to author Don Winslow, essentially conveying regret he himself didn’t make it as a book writer. The son of a shipyard welder grew up in a Belfast housing project during the “Troubles” and was accepted at Oxford on full scholarship - first in his family to matriculate - but he was ready to give up writing, because he wasn’t making enough to support his wife and two daughters. He was also an affiliate of East Coast hip hop group The Diplomats. Writer, is a Dominican American rapper and freestyle champion. The now fully packaged picture keeps up an encouraging story for McKinty, who had written good novels, but wasn’t making enough to support his family, even as he supplemented his paycheck as a Uber driver and taking construction jobs. Rusty Brito (born May 28, 1985) better known by his stage name J.R. ![]()
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