PeterBehrensEditorial

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PeterBehrensEditorial.com

At some point, every writer is afraid.

To start. To venture.

To intuit. To revise.

To finish.

I can help you with that. 

I am a Harvard Radcliffe Institute alumnus and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford. After learning to analyze ‘story’ during fifteen years of writing and rewriting feature screenplays in Los Angeles, I used that experience to write three critically-acclaimed novels, two story collections and a sequence of essays published and broadcast in venues such as Granta, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and CBC. I’m also a prose stylist and a line-editor with an academic background in History and International Relations. I believe in the horsepower of the perfect sentence, and that before any work—academic book or article, novel, application essay, spec screenplay, memoir–can tell a story, it must find its voice. 

Contact me at PeterBehrensEditorial.com and we will book a zoom conversation to discuss your project–where you are at, and where you want to be. 

Absorbing, unsparing and beautifully written...a masterly novel —The New York Times Book Review (The Law of Dreams)

…another meditation on history and destiny . . . that make[s] the past feel stunningly close at hand. —Megan O’Grady, Vogue (Carry Me)

…one of those rare books that comes along from time to time that makes you feel that you are in the presence of greatness: a gifted storyteller with a truly compelling story to tell—Irish Sunday Independent (The Law of Dreams)

...epic . . . an unforgettable narrative of marriage. –vogue.com  (The O'Briens)

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