Brookfield Father of Seven Writes Young Adult Novel About Modeling

Brookfield father of seven and former model writes young adult novels based upon his life as a former model. He recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund his project.

Daryl Janney worked for two years as a professional model before earning a degree in English literature at Boston University. His debut novel, Nineteen, is about a determined young fashion model trying to make it in a fast-paced, cutthroat environments. The sequel, Twenty, is based upon real life incidents and set in the 1980s.

Janney has begun a Kickstarter campaign to write Twenty, a novel about a young model who travels from Milan, to Paris to New York City. Janney will use the funds for a paperback and e-book to be completed by the summer of 2016.

About Daryl Janney

Daryl Janney (www.daryljanney.com), author of the young adult novel Nineteen, follows the advice to “write what you know.” What Janney knows all too well is the world of professional modeling, and that’s the subject of his gritty, coming-of-age novel into a world that’s exotic and unknown to people who perceive the fashion model setting as one of glamor and prestige. Jan-ney knows a different side of the modeling world: yes, there are the exotic locales in places frequented by the rich and famous, but there’s also the hardscrabble survival to make ends meet in postage-stamp-sized living quarters in New York City and a prostitute-ridden boarding house in Milan, Italy. From a modeling career to a degree in English literature to marriage and fatherhood, Janney’s return to writing is the resurgence of a dream. His novel, written with the memory of his modeling career and the wisdom of life, evokes the vulnerability of his young hero whose wounds are buried deep beneath the handsome face of a fashion model’s physical perfection.

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