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Chris Keane

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in Freehold, NJ, The United States
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Steven King, Mark Edwards, Alice Sebold, Tana French, Jennifer McMahon

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Chris is a graduate of Rutgers University and studied the art of storytelling at Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City.

Chris' first publication, "Loot," became a bestselling Kindle Short Read, in the category of Young Adult Fiction. "Loot," set on Halloween in 1977, tells the tale of three boys who skip Halloween to hunt for cash to purchase an Atari in an old farmhouse belonging to one of their deceased aunts. Adventure ensues in his coming-of-age tale in the spirit of Stand by Me and The Goonies!

In addition to authoring prose, Chris is a screenwriter. In 2013 he wrote the screenplay for a short film, The Baseball Card, about three twelve-year old boys who fight over a Don Mattingly baseball card during the summer of 1984. The Basebal
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The Girl from the Woods, Now on Kindle Unlimited

Hello All!

Hope you are enjoying some nice Fall weather!

You can start reading my award-winning novel, he Girl from the Woods on Kindle UnlimitedThe Girl from the Woods right now:

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“You don't have to change yourself at all to be a writer. It's come as you are.”
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“For a story to be good it has to be in some way your own.”
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“For a story to be good it has to be in some way your own.”
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