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Jack Halliday is a published author
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award-winning screenwriter,
with over thirty-five years of
experience
in radio, television and print media;
including, but not limited to:
Publications:
These three have been published as "Thrillogy Number Ten" by Wildside
Press in 2018:
- "The Woman In The Elevator" --
A P.I. gets trouble as his "thank you" for accompanying a woman
to her car in a parking garage.
- "In the Blood" -- A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to
solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man
bedfast in a hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints
being found at three crime scenes.
- "Finding Phyllis" -- A P.I. is hired by an elderly divorcee
to find her missing daughter, who turns out to also be the
detective's girlfriend. (Semi-finalist, 2017 Screencraft.org
"Cinematic Short Story" contest).
Re-Publication:
Contest wins:
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TheIndieGathering.com
24th International Film Festival -- First Place Award (short
script, family category) 2019 Rahab and the Ribbon of
Redemption
- TheIndieGathering.com
Quarter-finalist (television script) 2019 New York International
Screenplay Awards - Rahab and the Ribbon of Redemption
- TheIndieGathering.com
24th International Film Festival, First Place Short Script
Suspense category, 2019 - The Burning Man
- TheIndieGathering.com
24th International Film Festival, Second Place in Feature Script
Drama category, 2019 - The Drowning Man
- TheIndieGathering.com, 23nd Annual Film Festival Contest --
3rd place, 2018, Action category -- Kawanga
- TheIndiegathering.com, 23nd Annual Film Festival Contest --
3rd place, 2018, Suspense category -- the short script
Moonlight and Roses
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TheIndieGathering.com, 22nd Annual Film Festival Contest --
1st place, 2017, Crime-Drama category -- The Queen City
Murders
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TheIndieGathering.com, 21st Annual Film Festival Contest
-- 4th place, 2016, Horror category -- Tomorrow is
Another Day (alternate title: The Closet)
Contest finalist:
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Screencraft.org
-- semi-finalist, 2017, Cinematic Short Story Contest -- Finding Phyllis
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Screencraft.org
-- quarter-finalist, 2017, Cinematic Short Story Contest --
The Burning Man
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Screencraft.org
-- quarter-finalist, 2016, Inaugural Short Story Contest --
Swan Song
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Scripped.com (sadly,
ceased operation 2015) -- Moonlight and Roses
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Screenplaycontests.com/horror
(sadly, ceased operation 2014) -- The Green Man
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Screencraft.org – quarter finalist, 2018, inaugural
Cinematic Book Contest, The Big Bluff
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Screencraft.org – quarter finalist, 2018, Cinematic
Short Story Contest, In the Blood |
Honorable mentions:
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HorrorHotel.net/page20.php (honorable mention, 2016 Horror
Hotel Screenplay Contest) The Green Man
- The Writer's Journal (honorable mention)
-- Moonlight and Roses
Author:
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Novel, The
Big Bluff -- New Noir Mystery Novel,
Solstice Publishing
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Book,
12th Mystery Double (Kawanga, and Swan Song and
Other Mystery Stories) , published by
Wildside Press
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Short story, Moonlight and Roses, published in
Issue #44
of Hardboiled Magazine
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Short story, Black Sunrise, in
The Detective Megapack
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Short stories, Bedhead Fred's Redhead's Dead,
Room 801,
and Rainy Tuesday, published in
The Noir Mystery Megapack
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:
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"Jack Halliday is one
of the brightest new stars in mystery fiction. It's hard to
imagine the field in ten years without picturing him as its
vital center." -- John Gregory Betancourt, Award-Winning Author, Publisher of Wildside Press
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"Jack, I'd be happy to be a part of any film you had a hand in
writing." Richard Norton, Australian action star, martial artist
(Mad Max: Fury Road, Jackie Chan's Mr. Nice Guy).
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"I enjoy your style of
writing, and feel you are a gifted author."
Nanda Rao, co-producer, The Vault (starring James
Franco).
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"I have known Halliday for
years, and I am a real fan of his noir fiction. He has a
number of good scripts, but his Queen City Murders is a
classic of the genre, and is ripe for a feature film - and
possibly a TV series." Ray Nikolaison, Producer,
Reel Frog Films, LLC
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"Jack, you've got carte-blanche with me: I'll issue
a contract for any writing that you want to do." The late
Robert Reginald, editor, Borgo Press Imprint of Wildside Press.
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"Jack, thanks for
letting me see Swan Song: good story and good writing, lots
of good things here, just too long for the magazine. I'll get
your story "Moonlight and Roses" into a future issue of
Hardboiled." Gary Lovisi, editor/publisher,
Hardboiled Magazine, Gryphon Books
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Screenwriting Representation:
Ray Cavaleri
Cavaleri and Associates Talent & Literary Agency
3500 W. Olive Ave. #300
Burbank, CA 91505
818.955.9300
cavaleri@hotmail.com
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