Lew Ritter is a retired teacher from Bergen County. He had had many careers, including working in the Air Courier industry before FedEx took over, graduating from DeVry College as a Unix Network Operations person, and finally, as a Social Studies and Library Media Specialist Teacher. He has been married to Bonnie Mitchel for twenty-three years. His interest in writing began in college with a series of correspondence with the legendary producer of MASH, Larry Gelbart. He wrote an impassioned letter to CBS protesting the potential cancellation of M*A*S*H in its freshmen year. Gelbart was so impressed with the letter that they corresponded for several months. He sent him actual scripts and even allowed Lew to pitch story ideas for the series. In 1975, Lew joined Mystery Writers of America and tried his hands at writing mystery short stories for the Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine. In the early 1980s, he became enthusiastic about becoming a Copywriter for advertising agencies in NYC. This led him to take classes at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He took classes with Copywriters and Art Directors from legendary agencies such as Ally & Gargano, Doyle Dane, and Birnbach. His decision to screenwriting began in 1985 when he attended a Screenwriting class led by Ron Peterson. He wrote several entry-level screenplays but reached his level in 2011 as a Finalist in the Wild Sound Film Festivals Classic Spec script contest for a Magnum P. I script. It received a Table Read by actors at the same Film Festival in 2015. His scripts have been placed in such contests as the People’s Pilot, Miami, and Santa Barbara Film Festival. He worked with Ron Peterson and fellows from Crossroads Entertainment in L.An on several projects, including Disclosure, a Sci-Fi script. Turbulence has undergone major changes since its creation in 2013. Since then, it has developed into a potential Netflix streaming series with five-year worth of story ideas. He currently works with Joe Rosario, an acting coach, writer and stage director on versions of Turbulence and Mr. Zak, a series about a wounded Veteran who works in an inner-city school. In 2018, Lew decided to turn the tv script into a Novel. Lew worked and published articles in Strategy & Tactics magazine and a regular contributor for Larry Brody’s TVWriter.com. This is his first novel, and he plans to write more novels in this Turbulence 1970’s world.