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Jack Chase

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in San Francisco, California, The United States

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https://www.abbycatgroup.com/

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Fiction, Suspense, Contemporary

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Jack Chase is an American novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and graphic designer. He is the founder of Abbycat Group & Publishing Brands, an independent publishing and intellectual-property studio established in 2025.

Chase is the author of “Made in America: or The Tragedy of Billy Castle and Unexpected Absolution of Dean Willis” (2025), “The Bastard of Taylor’s End” (2025), “Violent Crimes: The Butcher of Westchester” (2025), “Jokes About Suicide” (2026), and “The Schultz Brothers: An American Crime Saga” (2026), among other works spanning crime fiction, psychological drama, horror, black comedy, and historical fiction.

His writing is characterized by a cinematic approach to literary fiction, combining atmospheric prose and psychological in Jack Chase is an American novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and graphic designer. He is the founder of Abbycat Group & Publishing Brands, an independent publishing and intellectual-property studio established in 2025.

Chase is the author of “Made in America: or The Tragedy of Billy Castle and Unexpected Absolution of Dean Willis” (2025), “The Bastard of Taylor’s End” (2025), “Violent Crimes: The Butcher of Westchester” (2025), “Jokes About Suicide” (2026), and “The Schultz Brothers: An American Crime Saga” (2026), among other works spanning crime fiction, psychological drama, horror, black comedy, and historical fiction.

His writing is characterized by a cinematic approach to literary fiction, combining atmospheric prose and psychological interiority with the pacing, blocking, and visual construction of screen drama. His background in screenwriting has informed both his fiction and his development of original material across publishing, film, and television.

“Made in America,” which was submitted for Pulitzer® Prize consideration, follows the intersecting lives of Billy Castle, Archer Stone, and Dean Willis through a multigenerational New York crime story centered on power, ambition, inheritance, and trauma. Chase subsequently turned to historical fiction with “The Bastard of Taylor’s End,” an alternate-history revenge epic set in seventeenth-century England and structured around “The Dragon & The Prince,” a play-within-a-play written in period-accurate diction that runs parallel to the novel’s five-act narrative.

In 2026, Chase published “Jokes About Suicide,” a black comedy-drama about a New York comedian confronting a terminal diagnosis, followed by “The Schultz Brothers: An American Crime Saga,” the first novel in a planned four-volume series about New York bank robbers hiding out in Los Angeles whose attempt at a fresh start collapses after they rob a Beverly Hills jewelry store connected to the New Jersey mob, putting them back on the radar of both organized crime and federal law enforcement.

Chase develops his novels, screenplays, and related properties through Abbycat Group, with an emphasis on author-owned intellectual property conceived for both literary and screen formats. His forthcoming novels include “Bears in Winter,” the second installment in “The Schultz Brothers” series; “Overtime 2: Buenos Aires”; “Violent Crimes 2: Black Butterfly”; and “She’s Still Here,” a psychological drama spanning several decades.

Chase is also developing “Camp Doom,” a psychological horror film adapted from his own fiction. The story originated in a collection published pseudonymously before being substantially expanded and published separately under its own title. The screen adaptation continues Chase’s broader practice of developing original properties across literary and cinematic forms.

Chase lives in Southern California with his tortoiseshell cat, Mulan. He welcomed a daughter in December 2025. ...more

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What inspired "Made in America," and how did you manage to capture 2014 New York so viscerally and accurately as a boy who grew up in California?

Jack Chase I wanted to do something big, and I became drawn to the challenge of bridging gritty hyperrealism with myth and the tones of old-world Greek tragedy, …moreI wanted to do something big, and I became drawn to the challenge of bridging gritty hyperrealism with myth and the tones of old-world Greek tragedy, but making it feel seamless rather than stylized. Archer Stone was the root of everything. I was too enamored with the character to stop, and the story kept expanding until it finally locked into place. It was the most fun I’ve ever had writing, like plugging into another world every day. I didn’t have it all figured out, even halfway through. To this day I’m still discovering things in the book that feel intentional in hindsight.

As for New York, I’ve only been once, at eighteen, but I grew up obsessed with crime dramas and naturalistic cinema set there. When I visited, I was lucky to have my aunt, who’s an expert at navigating cities, so I absorbed as much as I could. I already had projects percolating in that world, so I walked around imagining scenes and clocking landmarks. In the end, if it reads as more than just a backdrop, I’m flattered. I trusted my intuition, my memory, and a lifelong draw to cinema, and hoped it would land.(less)

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Since The Schultz Brothers had been developing in some form for about eleven years, and went through different versions as a feature film, a pilot, and eventually a novel, how much of the final ending was actually there from the beginning? Was the climax something you’d been building toward all that time, or did it change significantly once the story finally became a novel?

Jack Chase A lot changed, and a lot didn’t.

The ending itself was always the ending. The scene with Roman and Luciano, along with the final chapters, had been wri…moreA lot changed, and a lot didn’t.

The ending itself was always the ending. The scene with Roman and Luciano, along with the final chapters, had been written for quite some time and were basically waiting for the rest of the book to catch up to them. So in that sense, I had been building toward the same destination for years.

What changed significantly was how I got there. The exact mechanics of the climactic heist, a lot of the deception around it, and some of the more complicated undercurrents were developed much later, once my older outlines and treatments started running out of road near the end of Act IV. By then the story had also spent years moving through different forms, from feature film to pilot to novel, so the book had accumulated a lot more character history and narrative weight than those earlier versions ever had room for.

Act V itself came together very quickly, probably in two weeks, maybe less. By that point I knew I had to finish the book, and frankly, I was just done with it. Weirdly, that urgency helped. The flashback chapter that opens Act V was something I’d wanted to do for years without ever fully laying it out, and writing it more spontaneously ended up making it one of my favorite sections of the novel.

So the destination stayed remarkably consistent. The route became much more complex once the story finally found its full form as a novel.
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	The Bastard of Taylor's End 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Made in America: or The Tragedy of Billy Castle and Unexpected Absolution of Dean Willis it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2025 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill the Bartender! 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Immundus: A Western Navajo Folktale 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Schultz Brothers: An American Crime Saga it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2026 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Overtime: The Ballad of Marcus Graves it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The real story behind Made in America — four years, loss, and proof of origin

New longform is live:
I just published a behind-the-scenes piece about how Made in America was actually written — process, whiteboards, 2021 screenplay photos, the four-year timeline, and what I lost to finish it.

Full piece on Medium here:
https://medium.com/@jackchasenovels/h...

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Jack Chase answered Claire Ginsberg's question: Since The Schultz Brothers had been developing in some form for about eleven years, and went through different versions as a feature film, a pilot, and eventually a novel, how much of the final ending was actually there from the beginning? Was the climax something you’d been building toward all that time, or did it change significantly once the story finally became a novel? A lot changed, and a lot didn’t. The ending itself was always the ending. The scene with Roman and Luciano, along with the final chapters, had been written for quite some time and were basically waiting for the rest of the book to catch up to them. So See Full Answer
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Jack Chase liked Marcy's review of The Schultz Brothers: An American Crime Saga: "I somehow read Made in America first, then The Bastard of Taylor’s End, and still managed to leave The Schultz Brothers sitting on my shelf like a dunce. This was a mistake, though one since corrected. The book opens with four men walking into a Manha" Read more of this review »
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Jack Chase liked Scott's review of The Schultz Brothers: An American Crime Saga: "I went into The Schultz Brothers expecting a big crime novel. I didn’t expect it to be this good. The opening bank robbery tells you immediately what kind of book you’re in: disciplined, violent, cinematic, and aggressively uninterested in playing sa" Read more of this review »
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Jack Chase answered Marcy's question: What inspired "Made in America," and how did you manage to capture 2014 New York so viscerally and accurately as a boy who grew up in California? I wanted to do something big, and I became drawn to the challenge of bridging gritty hyperrealism with myth and the tones of old-world Greek tragedy, but making it feel seamless rather than stylized. Archer Stone was the root of everything. I was too See Full Answer
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