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Scott MacFarlane

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Born

Portland, OR, The United States

Website

https://www.nicheeco.com/

Genre

Crime, Mystery, Fiction

Influences

His key mentors include the outstanding novelists Steve Heller, Ron Ca ...more

Member Since

January 2025

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The author resides in the Skagit River Valley of western Washington with his ever-supportive wife, Brenda, also an artist.

His personal threads of inspiration for The Bone Shrine Crime series include being a transit operator for 12+ years. A sundry flow of on-the-bus surprises often spark his muse.

He served as the founding executive director of the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in The Dalles, Oregon in the 1990s. This helped anchor Mary, Joe and Biff. The three key teen characters in the series came of age helping create the new museum.

In 1982, he appeared in Paramount Pictures, “An Officer and a Gentleman,” when he portrayed a U.S. Naval Air Officer candidate in Sgt. Foley’s (Lou Gosset, Jr.) platoon.

MacFarlane attended the University of ...more

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Scott MacFarlane’s books

Average rating: 3.77 · 22 ratings · 8 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2007 — 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 Bone Shrine 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001 — 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
	WHO?: Book Two, The Bone Shrine Crimes it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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

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