Raised in Peabody, Massachusetts, R.T. Jordan moved to Los Angeles when he was nineteen and is only now beginning to look back. Although he believes that he has always been a writer, he first began to earn a living in this manner as the staff writer in the feature film marketing department of The Walt Disney Studios. "It was the best of times. It was he worst of times," Jordan says of his nearly two decades in that position. "Although the deadlines were a horror, the writing and rewriting gave me discipline, and the understanding that there are many ways to spin a story," Jordan says. "In retrospect, I see that those years were better than a Master's program in creative writing because - by pumping out prose twelve hours a day and on nearly 400 films - I honed what little skill I had and developed what I hope is a breezy style of writing."
During those years, while still writing for Disney, Jordan found time to complete his first book, BUT DARLING, I'M YOUR AUNTIE MAME!, a nonfiction history of the famous character created by author Patrick Dennis. He went on to write four novels and three novellas (summer beach reading books written under a pen name he says he'd rather not acknowledge) for Kensington Publishing Corp. He then switched to the cozy mystery genre.
"My brilliant and understanding editor at Kensington, John Scognamiglio, allowed me to begin writing this Polly Pepper serial mystery," Jordan says. "My first in the series, REMAINS TO BE SCENE was published this year, and the second, FINAL CURTAIN, comes out in February 2008. I'm now working on the third and, with help from readers, I hope to be writing about the exploits of semi-ditzy faded movie star Polly Pepper and her unique way of stumbling upon dead bodies - and uncovering how they got that way - for a long time. Polly and her entourage are amazing and fun characters to spend my time with."
Jordan continues to work at the Disney films studios in Burbank, California. When he's not in front of his computer writing books, he loves to read (among his favorite authors are Julia Oliver, Laura Levine, Andrew W.M. Beierle, J. Randy Taraborrelli, and Carolyn See). He also enjoys entertaining in his Hollywood Hills home, traveling, and relaxing at his mountain retreat in Running Springs, California. He says that he has the life he always dreamed of while plotting his escape from Peabody. Now, "I'd like to escape from Los Angeles and spend my life writing in Scotland." (Or England. Or Ireland. He vacillates.)