Screenplays, Novels, Novellas, & Short Stories
Noir, Mystery, Hardboiled & Other Fiction

Jack Halliday is a fiction author and an optioned, 
multi-award-winning screenwriter,
with over forty years of experience
in radio, television and print media;
including, but not limited to:
 

Publications:

• 2019 Pulp Adventures #32  "Stranded at Saturn"
  
• 2020 Pulp Adventures #35  "Great Caesar's Ghost
  
• 2021 Pulp Adventures #38  "Room 801"
  
• 2022 Pulp Adventures #41  "Rainy Tuesday"
  
• 2023 Pulp Adventures #42  "Black Sunrise"
  
• 2023 Pulp Adventures #43  "Bedhead Fred's Redhead's Dead"
  
• 2024 Pulp Adventures #45  "Halo in Gold"
  
  
  
  
• 2022 Black Cat Weekly #30 "I Live Two Lives!"
  
• 2023 Black Cat Weekly #98 "Great Caesar's Ghost!"
  
  
  
  
• 2020 Iris Literary Journal Vol. 1 Issue 2 "Remembering Leonard"
  
  
• "The Big Bluff" -- Noir Mystery Novel by Bold Venture Press 
  
  
•  "Remembering Leonard" (digital anthology) -- Wildside Press --  2018
   
•  "Don't Bank On It" (flash fiction) -- Inaugural Issue, Black Cat   Mystery  Magazine, Wildside Press -- 2017
   
•  "The Woman in the Elevator" -- After The Pause -- September 2017
   
•  "I Live Two Lives!" (flash fiction) -- The Story Shack -- 18 September 2017

These three have been published as "Thrillogy Number Ten" by Wildside Press in 2018:

•  "The Burning Man" -- A private detective investigates the murder of a teen as a friend of the grieving family, and becomes judge, jury and executioner in this noir, hardboiled short story. 
    
•  "In the Blood" -- A private detective 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 private detective 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:

•   Room 801 (digital version) -- The Horrorzine -- November 2016;  (print edition) -- The Horrorzine Magazine -- Fall 2016

The Indie Gathering  International Film Festival contest wins:

• 2022 -- First Place, Action Feature Script category -- Giants!
  
  
• 2021--  Second Place, Fantasy Short Script category -- DownUnder Double Cross
  
  
• 2020 -- First Place, Crime Short Script Category -- In The Blood
  
  
• 2019 -- First Place, Family Short Script category -- Rahab and the Ribbon of Redemption
  
  
• 2019 -- First Place, Crime Short Script category - The Burning Man
   
• 2019 -- Second Place, Drama Feature Script category - The Drowning Man
   
•  2018 -- Third place, Action Feature script category -- Kawanga
   
•  2018 -- Third place, Mystery Short script category -- Moonlight and Roses
   
• 2017 -- First place, Crime-Drama category -- The Queen City Murders
   
•  2016 -- Fourth place,  Horror category -- Tomorrow is Another Day (alternate title: The Closet) 

Horror Hotel Film Festival contest:

• 2023 -- Honorable Mention, Horror Feature Script category -- The Closet
  
• 2016 -- Honorable Mention, Horror Feature Script category -- The Green Man 

Contest finalist:

	Quarter-finalist (television script) 2019 New York International Screenplay Awards - Rahab and the Ribbon of Redemption
	Screencraft.org -- semi-finalist, 2017, Cinematic Short Story Contest -- Finding Phyllis
	Screencraft.org -- quarter-finalist, 2017, Cinematic Short Story Contest -- The Burning Man
	Screencraft.org -- quarter-finalist, 2016, Inaugural Short Story Contest -- Swan Song
	Scripped.com (sadly, ceased operation 2015) -- Moonlight and Roses
	Screenplaycontests.com/horror (sadly, ceased operation 2014) -- The Green Man
	Screencraft.org – quarter finalist, 2018, inaugural Cinematic Book Contest, The Big Bluff
	Screencraft.org – quarter finalist, 2018, Cinematic Short Story Contest, In the Blood

Honorable mentions:

•   HorrorHotel.net/page20.php (honorable mention, 2016 Horror Hotel Screenplay Contest) The Green Man
   
•   The Writer's Journal (honorable mention) -- Moonlight and Roses 

Author: 

• Book, 12th Mystery Double (Kawanga, and Swan Song and Other Mystery Stories) , published by Wildside Press
   
•  Short story, Moonlight and Roses, published in Issue #44 of Hardboiled Magazine
   
•  Short story, Black Sunrise, in The Detective Megapack
   
•  Short stories, Bedhead Fred's Redhead's Dead, Room 801, and Rainy Tuesday, published in The Noir Mystery Megapack

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:

•  "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
   
• "Jack, I'd be happy to be a part of any film you had a hand in writing." The late Richard Norton, Australian action star, martial artist (Mad Max: Fury Road, Jackie Chan's Mr. Nice Guy).
   
• "I enjoy your style of writing, and feel you are a gifted author." Nanda Rao, co-producer, The Vault (starring James Franco).
   
• "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."  The late Ray Nikolaison, Producer, Reel Frog Films, LLC
   
•  "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.
   
•  "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
   

Screenwriting Representation:

(the late) Ray Cavaleri, of
Cavaleri and Associates Talent & Literary Agency

To option, purchase, or discuss any of the above works, 
email me at jack@jackhalliday.com 

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