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  <name><![CDATA[Don Roff]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[The words I survive by: 

&quot;Writing is survival. Not to write, for many of us, is to die. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.&quot;
--Ray Bradbury

I am the author of five books of horror stories for children (totaling one-quarter million books in print), published by Scholastic. In addition, I have completed around 23 feature-length screenplays. One script is currently in development. 

My writing awards and nominations include -- the Zola Award for Screenwriting at the 2006 Pacific Northwest Writer's Association Conference; Winner of the 2002 Amazing Short Script Challenge; 3rd Place Winner at the 2005 Washington State Screenplay Competition; Semifinalist at the 2000 The Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting; Finalist at the 2002 and A2000 Washington State Screenplay Competition; and a Semifinalist at the 2000 Chesterfield Competition. 

My writing has appeared in Billboard, Playboy, Jazz Times, and various Yamaha Music magazines. 

Also, I have edited juvenile books for Scholastic, Baker &amp; Taylor, and Chronicle Books.


]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, L. Frank Baum, Frank Herbert, Raymond Carver, David Mamet, Edward Albee, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Sergio Leone, Ed Wood, Joseph Campbell, Aristotle, Sophocles, Homer, World mythology, folk and fairy tales]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Walla Walla, Washington</hometown>  <born_at>12/13/1966</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Scary Stories]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dragon Adventures]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tales of Terror]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[True Scary Stories]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Thick As Thieves]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Vampire Tales]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection]]></title>
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