My name is Ted Torres, and I'm an author and
musician from New Orleans, Louisiana.
I was born in New Orleans on March 24th, 1972, and
like most writers I began telling stories at a very early age. I used
pen and paper, but also a surprisingly diverse collection of materials ranging
from projector slides to 1/2 VHS video, and during my years at Holy Cross High
School in New Orleans, I entered an annual film festival sponsored by Louisiana
State University and won the thing no less than four years in a row.
Naturally, this inspired me to dream of one day going to film school and
pursuing a career as a film director.
But despite the support of family and friends, life
had a different agenda for me. In 1996, I earned a B.A. in English
Literature from the University of New Orleans, where under the linage of some
of the most inspiring professors I have ever known, I fell in love with the
written and spoken word, absorbing the classics of both the British and
American literary canon, and ultimately, adopting the novel format as my
primary means of storytelling.
In the years that followed, I was fortunate enough
to be able to work as a professional musician in the clubs along world-famous
Bourbon Street in the New Orleans French Quarter, and after the tragic events
of Hurricane Katrina, I relocated to the state of Alabama where I continued to
work as a musician while pursuing the dream of one day finding agency
representation and a commercial publisher for my work.
In June of 2014, I returned to the city that made
me.
In 2001, I completed my first novel, The
Petrified Christ, during a break from writing a larger more complex
piece that would eventually become my second novel, 2006's Scenes from
the Blanket. Both
books, however, were published on my own dime with the sole purpose being to
give them life in this highly competitive world of book publishing.
I've recently completed a draft of a third novel manuscript, and it is this book that I work on daily and plan to use as my springboard into the legitimate market of popular contemporary fiction.
