Barrett Fuller's Secret

by Scott Carter

Overview

Barrett Fuller’s privileged life is about to change radically … or else.

Barrett Fuller is a world-famous and very wealthy children’s author who writes under a pseudonym because he’s a self-absorbed womanizer and drug-user. His life changes when he receives an extortion letter, challenging him to live up to the morals he currently espouses in his books. He is presented with a series of tasks to complete or face having his identity revealed to the public, resulting in the ruin of his financial empire.

Richard Fuller, Barrett’s nephew, has a secret too, and it’s one no kid should bear. He knows why his father left the family and he’s never told his mother.

When the extortionist challenges Barrett to spend time with his nephew, their respective secrets move towards a collision that will change their lives forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459706958
Publisher:	Dundurn Press
Publication date:	09/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	565 KB

About the Author

Scott Carter is an author and screenwriter. His first short film debuted at the Exploding Cinema Film Festival in Los Angeles. Since then his films have played in festivals across North America and his script The Unspoken Promise was written for Bravo! Television. His first novel was the critically acclaimed Blind Luck. Carter is a Toronto native who still lives in the city.

Scott Carter is an author and screenwriter. His first short film debuted at the Exploding Cinema Film Festival in Los Angeles. Since then his films have played in festivals across North America and his script The Unspoken Promise was written for Bravo! Television. His first novel was the critically acclaimed Blind Luck. Carter is a Toronto native who still lives in the city.

Table of Contents

OPPORTUNITY #1: SACRIFICE. You will donate the equivalent you have invested in Blast to the Child Labour Project and the local Big Brothers centre equally, tomorrow, from your yacht, dressed as Sindu the starfish from Mil Bennett’s imaginary world or I will release all my information to the press. You will also invite children from youth centres around the city to your yacht, where you will announce that you are donating the yacht for sale with the proceeds to be divided evenly amongst youth centres across the city.

OPPORTUNITY #2: NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FAMILY You have a sister raising a child on her own and you do nothing to help her. This is a pathetic reality for someone that makes millions writing allegories about family values. You have one day to spend some time with her kid, record some of your activities and download the proof or the world will see just what a con artist their precious Russell Niles is and your career will be over.

OPPORTUNITY #3: ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES The female you had sex with in her car the other day is a seventeen-year-old, grade eleven student. You have twenty-four hours to donate three million dollars in scholarships to the Empowering Young Women scholarship fund for disadvantaged teens and copy the Once Upon a Hypocrite site as proof, or she will go public about your intimacy, the police will visit your home, and every parent that buys your books will know you had sex with a teenager.

OPPORTUNITY #4: TREAT ALL WOMEN AS PRECIOUS AS YOUR MOTHER The way you treat women is an embarrassment to real gentlemen. You will attend a sensitivity training workshop at 500 Palson Street tonight at eight this evening and download proof of your attendance or the public will know how their beloved Russell Niles really feels about women.

OPPORTUNITY #5: HONESTY You have twenty-four hours to record yourself admitting to your publisher that you’ve been having an affair with his wife and then upload your admission to me or I will expose you to the world.

OPPORTUNITY #6: LOVE YOURSELF I see that you have a new woman in your life. One that lasted more than a night. Admit to her who you really are or she'll find out with the rest of the public. You have twenty-four hours to upload your taped confession.

Editorial Reviews

Over the course of Carter's surprisingly exciting and evocative tale, relationships among Carol, Richard and Barrett acquire meaning, though, initially, not through Barrett's free will.

Winnipeg Free Press

How much of him/herself does a writer put into a story? In the case of famed children's author Barrett Fuller, extremely little. So little, in fact, that he writes under a pseudonym so that fans (and their parents) won't know he's a narcissistic womanizer with a serious drug problem. Then one day, someone discovers his secret and sends him a letter: Live up to your imaginary morality or else...This is the terrific premise of Scott Carter's second novel and it's better than Blind Luck, his excellent debut.

Globe & Mail

. . . Carter doesn’t shy away from making this character unlikeable, but most impressive is that I was engaged and guessing until the “big reveal” of the blackmailer. Also impressive is how Carter wrings every ounce of gut-wrenching tension and heartbreak from the reveal that could possibly be wrung without making it feel hokey.

On Fiction Writing

. . . Carter doesn’t shy away from making this character unlikeable, but most impressive is that I was engaged and guessing until the “big reveal” of the blackmailer. Also impressive is how Carter wrings every ounce of gut-wrenching tension and heartbreak from the reveal that could possibly be wrung without making it feel hokey.

How much of him/herself does a writer put into a story? In the case of famed children's author Barrett Fuller, extremely little. So little, in fact, that he writes under a pseudonym so that fans (and their parents) won't know he's a narcissistic womanizer with a serious drug problem. Then one day, someone discovers his secret and sends him a letter: Live up to your imaginary morality or else...This is the terrific premise of Scott Carter's second novel and it's better than Blind Luck, his excellent debut.

Over the course of Carter's surprisingly exciting and evocative tale, relationships among Carol, Richard and Barrett acquire meaning, though, initially, not through Barrett's free will.

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