About Fresh Ink Writing

 Open Researcher and Contributor ID

0009-0001-7918-496x

Walt Pickut, founder of Fresh Ink Writing, is a New Jersey native and a New York City escapee who is now happily engaged as a freelance country writer in the far reaches of Western New York State. It's the kind of place where a writer can stare out the window for a half-hour and folks know he’s working.

At Fresh Ink Writing Walt collaborates with a nationwide network of writers and authors in semantic analysis, style, and readability characteristics to make sure your work stands out as a polished presentation best suited to your unique purpose.

Professional affiliations 

• ASJA - American Society of Journalists and Authors
• AG - The Author’s Guild
• SPJ - Society of Professional Journalists
• NASIH - North American Society for Intelligence History

Academic support:

• BA in biology/chemistry
• MS in human physiology
• Clinical experience -New Jersey College of Medicine
• BS in communications
• Advanced graduate training - Mass communications

Board certification/registry

• Sleep Disorder Specialist SDS
• Sleep Technology RPSGT
• Respiratory Care RRT

Clinical

• Cardiopulmonary services management
• Hospital based clinical care and diagnostics

Teaching

• College, graduate, and professional levels
• Medical school adjunct faculty
• Biophysics, cardiorespiratory care, med tech
• Presentational Speaking
• Broadcast journalism

Books

• The First Counterspy - Lyons Press (true WWII spy VS spy investigation). ISBN 978-1-4930-6156-3. (Agented, with 63-page non-fiction proposal). See on Amazon.
• The Best Years of My Life - Falconer Press (memoir of NY Broadcasting Hall of Fame radio personality Jim Roselle). ISBN 978-0-692-23930-8.
• A Patient’s Guide to LASIK Eye Surgery - ghostwritten for a surgeon in Nevada - UpWork publishing.
• A Patient’s Guide to Varicose Vein Surgery - ghostwritten for a surgeon in New York State - UpWork publishing
• Think Like a Winner - Wisdom University publishing - ghostwritten with peer-reviewed documentation and citations - neurophysiology and practical guide for habit formation/control.

In submission:

• Catastrophe at Starways End – Science fiction novel (65,000 words)
• Get Paid Now: Royalties Come Later – Maybe! – How-to book on becoming a ghostwriter.
• Chiastic Flash Fiction - Experimental genre project

Published Content to date

• Newspaper/magazine features >500
• Editorials/Essays >500
• Healthcare blog posts >300

See below for more...

Meet Jim Roselle.

Like so many other great Americans, Jim was the son of immigrants who wanted to give their children a better life. 

This new, long-awaited memoir, The Best Times of My Life, follows Jim from his Great Depression era boyhood in a humble Jamestown neighborhood on Franklin Street to journalistic and broadcasting eminence interviewing the most famous people on Earth. Jim Roselle brought their stories, their adventures and their deepest thoughts into our living rooms, our car radios and even a few milking barns for 40 years from Chautauqua Institution and for 60 years on WJTN 1240 AM Jamestown. Share many of Jim’s successes and recognitions, including his 2010 induction into the New York State Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame, and read his fascinating personal life story.

In The Best Times of My Life, Jim recalls memorable and historic conversations like the one with a young Arkansas governor named Bill Clinton, the U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, and legendary songstress Judy Collins. Meet the woman who was once Britain’s top spymaster, the preacher who threw a birthday party for a Honolulu prostitute and the Israeli sniper who became America’s most famous sex therapist.

Jim has unfailingly revealed the real people behind the fame and the celebrity. In The Best Times of My Life, eavesdrop on 40 of his more than 1,800 Chautauqua Institution interviews and hundreds of hometown broadcast conversations culled from the WJTN archives.

The introduction, penned in personal tribute by Jim’s good friend and well-known political satirist, Mark Russell, opens the book with the kind of folksy, homespun humor that animates many of Jim’s personal stories told in The Best Times of My Life. Jim never lost touch with his community and his lifelong friends—their stories are told with affection and with the same respect and admiration as any of his most famous guests. “I didn’t succeed alone,” Jim says. “Family and community made all the difference.”

The Best Times of My Life, by Jim Roselle, as told to Walt Pickut, a Jamestown writer and newspaper editor, is a collaborative success, compiling hundreds of hours of personal conversations with Jim and his hometown co-host, Russ Diethrick in transcriptions of recorded interviews and in-depth research.

This book outsold every other featured national and international guest speaker at the world-renowned Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater for all of 2014. It is now a timeless classic of personal-interview broadcasting technique by a master of the airwaves who never played softball when hard questions had to be asked, but unique for never in 60 years lowering the tone to the level of “gotcha” journalism.

This is a must-have for students and scholars of broadcast journalism and a unique and deceptively powerful technique for the personal interview.

The First Counterspy is the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web.

Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell’s technical library. The FBI pitted them against a Soviet agent, Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, a Soviet agent operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII, and illegally as the secret head of a wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry.

His target was Larry Haas, working inside Bell’s top secret jet aircraft project. The Soviet Union’s only higher priority was to steal America’s atomic bomb.

The First Counterspy lays out this exciting story, and later, the consequences of Schevchenko’s deadly threat against Haas, the counterspy who betrayed him. That threat was uttered in a mere fourteen seconds but generated lethal consequences that long outlived Schevchenko, tormented Larry Haas, killed his wife, and subjected his daughter, Kay (the co-author of this book), to decades of nearly fatal harassment.

And thereby hangs a tale of spy vs. spy intrigue against a backdrop of the home front during WWII.