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Elena Hartwell

Goodreads Author

Born

in Bogota, Colombia

November 21

Website

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Genre

Mystery, Nonfiction

Influences

Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, The Rockford Files

Member Since

December 2015

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Elena Hartwell started out her storytelling career in the theater. She worked for several years as a playwright, director, designer, technician, and educator before becoming a novelist.

Elena has more than twenty years of teaching experience and now works one-on-one with writers as a manuscript consultant and writing coach.

She lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband and the greatest pets in the world, two cats, three horses, and two dogs. When she’s not writing, teaching writing, or talking about writing, she can be found reading, working with the animals, or driving the tractor around Paradise.

Elena also writers under Elena Taylor.

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	One Dead, Two to Go 4.24 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2016 — 7 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
	Two Heads Are Deader Than One 4.38 avg rating — 61 ratings — 8 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
	Three Strikes, You're Dead (An Eddie Shoes Mystery, #3) 4.59 avg rating — 51 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
	The Foundation of Plot (A Wait, Wait, Don't Query (Yet!) Book) 4.91 avg rating — 22 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
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	The Construction of Character (A Wait, Wait, Don't Query (Yet!) Book) 4.75 avg rating — 4 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
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“Memory is a strange combination of those things we work to remember and the things we can never forget”
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“After acknowledging that, I let other memories come. The way his presence made me feel. Like he was north and my heart was a compass that always found its way home.”
― Elena Hartwell, Three Strikes, You're Dead

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