The Latitude

Pete Clements, University of Michigan, A.B. in English/Creative Writing, started as a TV Advertising copywriter, then group creative director, at major AAAA advertising agencies, winning 23 national and international trade awards, including Cannes Film Festival, and finally writer/director/producer in documentary, corporate and sports films and active member, the Directors Guild of America. As writer/co-director, his Indianapolis 500 Motor Car Race corporate documentary film, "The Eddie Sachs Story", for Marathon Oil Company, was named by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation "the definitive remark on the philosophy of motor car racing," and was placed in the Indie 500 Museum, Speedway, Indiana.

In 1970, a radical change; Pete moved to Vero Beach, Florida, founded what became a successful retail marine business, was a member of Southern Yacht Brokers' Association, and wrote and published local newspaper columns and magazine articles.

Growing up on the Great Lakes, Pete became an expert sailor, is a graduate of The Sea School Of The Sea, held a USCG Captain License, Ocean Master, Power and Sail, was a sailing instructor, Stuart, Florida, at The Chapman School of Seamanship and was recently the proud owner of the 42' aux. ketch, "Pendancing", cruising the Atlantic Seaboard, Maine to the Bahamas.

He was is a Past Director, Vero Beach Rotary, Past President, The Hundred Club of Indian River County, former member Riomar Bay Yacht Club and a USAFR Veteran.

By the early 1990's, Pete was a full time novelist. His first novel won the Florida Space Coast Writers' Guild and Brevard College sponsored 1996 Florida Writers' Conference, First Place for unpublished long fiction. May 18, 2020, his newly released romance thriller, The Latitude, was named a Finalist Honoree in the 2020 Eric Hoffer International Literary Book Awards, having placed in the top10% of all nominees. The Latitude, published by Black Rose Writing of Texas, continues on "The Best Seller List" at the local Vero Beach Book Center, is available at all bookstores and online venues, print and ebook, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books and others. He continues to make his home in Vero Beach, Florida and is writing a new Florida-based novel.