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Mindy Halleck

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Award winning author Mindy Halleck is a Pacific Northwest writer, blogger and writing instructor. Her short story, The Sound of Rain, which placed in the Writer’s Digest Literary Contest blossomed into her first novel RETURN TO SENDER. Mindy blogs at Literary Liaisons and is a member of Willamette Writers and the Pacific Northwest Writers Associations, and serves on the steering committee for the Write on the Sound conference. In addition to being a writer, Mindy is a happily married, globe-trotting beachcomber, antiquer, gardener, grandma, and three-time cancer survivor. www.MindyHalleck.com Check out my Goodreads Author blog @ http://bit.ly/1t2hq0v and Return To Sender pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

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Mindy Halleck Hello Wolfe! I never saw this question, please forgive the lag in time.
I started writing when I was a teenager, tragic, melodramatic poetry. then move…more
Hello Wolfe! I never saw this question, please forgive the lag in time.
I started writing when I was a teenager, tragic, melodramatic poetry. then moved on to short short stories in my 20s, and then journaling into my 40s when I started writing short stories and viola! Novels.
I hope your holiday was wonderful and that you are looking forward to a happy new year. Cheers, Mindy(less)
Mindy Halleck I don't tend to get writer's block. What I do tend to get is too busy to write, so that's the thing I watch out for. However, on the rare occasion tha…moreI don't tend to get writer's block. What I do tend to get is too busy to write, so that's the thing I watch out for. However, on the rare occasion that I'm blocked I take a pen and pad of paper (old school writing) and go sit in a coffee shop. There is something about the buzz of human interaction that sparks my pen.(less)
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Return to Sender

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I recently rewatched PENNY DREADFUL, City of Angels

“All mankind needs to be the monster he truly is, is being told he can.” Magda () states in the first episode of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. I’d forgotten how captivating this character (and her portrayal by Dormer) was when I first watched it a few years back (2020). This female character is complex, brilliant, and breathtaking, sometimes qui

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Extreme Vetting is a roller coaster ride of emotions––a fantastic thriller. As a Romanian immigrant herself, author Roxana Arama’s debut novel is a legal thriller with intimate insights into the good, the bad, and the very ugly aspects of U.S. immigr
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“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
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“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
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