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As a Musician . . .
Guitarist Peter Rubie grew up in England and has been on the jazz scene in Europe and the U.S. since the early 1970s. He was the leader of the house band for a multitude of jazz musicians at the original site of the famous London jazz club, The 606 Club, when it was based in the King's Road, London. He has made guest appearances as a featured soloist and leader at engagements in and around the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.K., and continental Europe. In 1981 he moved to the U.S. Among musicians he has played with are such recorded artists as Jack Wilkins, Harvie S, Steve LaSpina, Peter Bernstein, Rotem Sivan, Paul Bollenback, George Coleman, Sean Levitt, Al Levitt, Sean Smith, Anwar Marshall, Junior Cook, Warne Marsh, the legendary Adelaide Hall, Judy Niemack, Amy London, Bobby Wellins, Peter Ind, Dave Frank, Slide Hampton, Ike Isaacs, Martin Taylor, Claude "the fiddler" Williams, Dave Cliff, Emily Remler, Steve Rubie, Jim Mullen, Jeremy and Paul Stacey, and many others. In the early 1970s while in England he studied with bass player Peter Ind, and later in New York with saxophonists Warne Marsh, George Coleman and pianist Dave Frank. He can often be found playing gigs around New York City,. where he lives, and has had a weekly residency for several years at Tartina restaurant on the upper west side of Manhattan. |
As a writer and editor . . .
Peter Rubie has been in New York publishing as an agent, editor, and published writer for nearly forty years. He is the CEO of FinePrint Literary Management, a NYC based literary agency. In the 1970s, in the U.K., Peter worked as a journalist and editor on Fleet Street before becoming one of the youngest news editors for BBC Radio News. In the U.S., before becoming involved in publishing, he was the editor-in-chief of a Manhattan local newspaper, and later a regular reviewer for the international trade magazine Publishers Weekly.
He began in publishing working as a freelance reader and freelance editor for major "Big Six" publishers (as they were then) before becoming the adult fiction editor at Walker & Co., from 1985 to 1991. He became an agent in 1992, and formed his own agency in 1998. Besides working in publishing as agent and editor, he ran the book publishing arm of New York University's Summer Publishing Institute for several years, and was also an adjunct professor in the NYU publishing faculty for 10 years, where he taught the only university-level course in the country on how to become a literary agent.
He is known for working closely, editorially, with his clients in order to bring projects to a fuller potential before submitting them. Over the years, several of his authors have become NY Times bestselling authors, and a number are also award winning writers. He lectures and writes widely and often on publishing and the craft of writing. He is the author of two published novels and close to a dozen nonfiction books and he regularly contributes to a column he curates on the website AllAboutJazz.com.
Peter Rubie has been in New York publishing as an agent, editor, and published writer for nearly forty years. He is the CEO of FinePrint Literary Management, a NYC based literary agency. In the 1970s, in the U.K., Peter worked as a journalist and editor on Fleet Street before becoming one of the youngest news editors for BBC Radio News. In the U.S., before becoming involved in publishing, he was the editor-in-chief of a Manhattan local newspaper, and later a regular reviewer for the international trade magazine Publishers Weekly.
He began in publishing working as a freelance reader and freelance editor for major "Big Six" publishers (as they were then) before becoming the adult fiction editor at Walker & Co., from 1985 to 1991. He became an agent in 1992, and formed his own agency in 1998. Besides working in publishing as agent and editor, he ran the book publishing arm of New York University's Summer Publishing Institute for several years, and was also an adjunct professor in the NYU publishing faculty for 10 years, where he taught the only university-level course in the country on how to become a literary agent.
He is known for working closely, editorially, with his clients in order to bring projects to a fuller potential before submitting them. Over the years, several of his authors have become NY Times bestselling authors, and a number are also award winning writers. He lectures and writes widely and often on publishing and the craft of writing. He is the author of two published novels and close to a dozen nonfiction books and he regularly contributes to a column he curates on the website AllAboutJazz.com.
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