Vincent Panettiere

Many times imagination develops through loneliness. Left in solitude and quiet the creative process emerges later, dormant until activated by circumstances or maturity.

Vincent was the only boy in a family of six children. Many times he was left to himself and his imagination. As he got older, he started writing short stories.

Vincent tells about the time he submitted a short story to “one of those magazines at the supermarket checkout counters”. He showed this story to his high school English teacher who then became convinced that the teenager was having trouble at home. He wasn’t, but this story earned him his first acknowledgement as a writer – as well as his first rejection slip.

He began his career as a sports reporter for the UPI wire service. While in graduate school at Boston University, he wrote sports for The Boston Herald, a daily newspaper.

Several years later after having reviewed his screenplay submissions a story editor at Columbia Pictures encouraged Vincent to move to the West Coast and keep writing. He wrote and sold several screenplays which – “in the byzantine world of motion pictures” – went unproduced.

Vincent Panettiere, author of The Scopas Factor and These Thy GiftsIt was time for a career change. Panettiere struck out on his own becoming a licensed literary agent representing writers and directors in TV and Film. During this time he became frustrated with the entertainment financing system, and began searching for outside financing for his clients. Some of his experiences are chronicled in his book, The Internet Financing Illusion.

Whether as a literary agent or executive at CBS or Twentieth Century Fox, Panettiere continued to search for ideas and stories to feed his imagination. For him, the seed of a story starts nudging his mind, forming characters and situations. His characters lead the story, and often surprise him with unforeseen twists.

The Scopas Factor is Panettiere’s third novel. His other novels are A Woman to Blame and the award-winning and critically acclaimed These Thy Gifts, which earned 5 stars from Readers’ Favorite,  second place in Literary and  Contemporary Fiction from CIPA, as well as the Reviewers’ Choice Award in General Fiction Novels. He is also the author of The Internet Financing Illusiona nonfiction account of the dark side of the internet.

For Vincent, writing brings several joys. He looks forward to reading the pages he has written a day later. Many times he can’t remember writing the pages. “This is my favorite part of the creation process. Something inside takes over. Something that I know I can rely on indefinitely.”

Most importantly, he says, the best part of the writing process is “having written – having defeated the tyranny of the blank page.”

Vincent Panettiere currently resides on the West Coast.

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Great story – should be a series

The characters, even those who only put in a brief appearance, are three-dimensional and fleshed out well. The main character,...
Robin Surface

 

VINCENT PANETTIERE
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2019-01-30T22:39:17+00:00
Robin Surface

 

The characters, even those who only put in a brief appearance, are three-dimensional and fleshed out well. The main character, Mike Hegan, is a tough guy who’s had a rough time of it emotionally – and the punches, literal and mental, keep rolling for him throughout the book. All of this makes you want to take his side in every fight. With this mystery, the reader is taken on a roller coaster ride that weaves in and out of the lives of several different people from varying walks of life, including mobsters, horse trainers, artists, policemen and florists. The setting also changes often – from racetracks to mobsters’ homes to Caribbean islands. All of this combines to make the story anything but boring. I would love to see this turned into a series. Hegan and his large florist friend would make an interesting PI duo, especially if the author added some more humor to the mix. The only thing that keeps this novel from being a truly great book is the lack of proofreading done on the manuscript. Please, for the love of God, get someone to fix the manuscript and resubmit it so that readers can truly enjoy the experience of reading this great story without the irritation of typos, incorrect punctuation, etc.

More Hegan novels please.

If you are a fan of novels that keep a good pace and also keep you thinking then A Woman...
Robin Perron

 

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2019-01-30T22:47:12+00:00
Robin Perron

 

If you are a fan of novels that keep a good pace and also keep you thinking then A Woman to Blame by Vincent Panettiere will be right up your alley. The main character is Mike Hegan, tough guy cop whose career ends because of medical disability. His life was no cup of tea either. After announcing his engagement to his fiancé he loses her. He has substantial conflicts to deal with within in his family. And he’s a cop, it can’t get much harder. The story opens with Mike on a small Carribean Island investigating a homicide that he disagrees with the official ruling on. His quest for the truth takes him places from Chicago to the Carribean and introduces to characters from all walks of life. Even the small characters that we only see briefly are well developed and interesting. The characters are so engaging that I would love to see Mike Heagan as the center of a series. Well done.

Gritty and Mysterious Amateur Masterpiece

A well-written mystery novel is highly dependent on its cast of characters. If they are not well-rounded, there will not...
Kieran Hair

 

VINCENT PANETTIERE
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2019-01-30T22:50:00+00:00
Kieran Hair

 

A well-written mystery novel is highly dependent on its cast of characters. If they are not well-rounded, there will not be as much intrigue regarding who is guilty. If they are not interesting, then the reader will not care who is guilty and who is innocent. The way in which the characters are introduced is fairly interesting as well. From early on, the novel will occasionally appear to shift viewpoints slightly. While some reviewers have claimed that this can get confusing, it also teaches the readers to stay on their toes. It is also a much more sensible style of writing when one considers that the author, Vincent Panettiere, used to work on unproduced screenplays. The main character is definitely one of the most interesting of the bunch. Mike Hegan is supposed to be ending his career, but he cannot let go of a case that he feels has been wrapped up too neatly. He decides to delve further, and turns out to be right in doing so. Some reviewers have stated a desire to see this tough, stubborn detective as the basis for a longer series. Whether or not this comes to fruition, the depth of Panettiere’s character writing would certainly validate further mystery novels by this impressive author. “A Woman to Blame” would have made an excellent movie had the original idea been picked up for a screenplay, but it might make an even more excellent novel as it is now. This incredibly well-written mystery is worth checking out for those who like a truly gritty tale with a sense of intrigue that seems torn straight out of yesteryear and fashioned in a way that modern audiences should be easily able to appreciate.

Can the famous detective solve the case?

Immediately within the first couple pages, readers are drawn in to an intense and mysterious tale. A young girl is...
Molly MU

 

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2019-01-30T22:52:54+00:00
Molly MU

 

Immediately within the first couple pages, readers are drawn in to an intense and mysterious tale. A young girl is introduced and her seemingly free-spirit, grasp the attention of the readers, because some men come into camp and very quickly, her mom, the Mud Woman disappears. Thus, the mystery of her disappearance begins and readers meet another character, Mike Hegan. Far from the refugee camp of the Mud Woman, Mike finds himself immersed in the disappearance of this woman, leaving the reader wondering how their lives and stories become intertwined. Once readers understand the characters and can make some sense of them, The Scopas Factor is a well-written and intense mystery. There are many tales of lies, deceit and secrets that make this book difficult to predict. I found myself on the edge of my seat, wanting to read more to try and figure out if Mike Hegan would be successful in uncovering how and why the disappearance of the Mud Woman took place. Because of the intense way the story sucks the readers in, time passes by quickly at the suspense of what will happen next.

Reminiscent of Da Vinci Code

This book took me a bit to get into since it follows different characters in the beginning than the main...
Luke Messer

 

VINCENT PANETTIERE
2019-01-30T22:53:25+00:00
Luke Messer

 

This book took me a bit to get into since it follows different characters in the beginning than the main character. However, it’s set up is relevant to key aspects through the rest of the book. From the book description I thought the fiance, Diana, would be more absent, more of a plot device. On the contrary, she’s active and funny and makes a great counter to the more serious, grounded Hegan. It’s fun watching them get sucked into a circumstances they don’t want to care about, and then watching them figure out all the stray pieces and having to run all over creation to put those pieces together. Probably what was most interesting and unexpected is the art factor. The role of art and artists comes up a lot--reminiscent of the Da Vinci code in a way. As someone who enjoys art of all varieties, I enjoyed this very much. I give four stars because despite the engaging plot, witty characters and sharp dialogue, there is a lot of telling where I would prefer showing. The author obviously put in a lot of work on the dialogue and I wish they would have used it even more to expose information and character traits. Maybe that’s just a personal on my part.
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