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I am a freelance writer of novels, essays, and screenplays and a teacher of writing and contemporary literature. I live in the hills of northern Vermont.

I earned an MFA in Fiction from the University of California at Irvine and an AB in English Composition from Syracuse University. I have been a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University, and I've been awarded grants for my fiction by the Vermont Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

My first novel, HARD FEELINGS (Atheneum, 1977), was an American Library Association Best Book in 1977 and a 20th Century-Fox film release in 1982. My published work includes four other novels, MULDOON (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982), and my Hector Bellevance mystery/suspen ...more

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I'm curious about the film of "Hard Feelings". Do you know where I can get a copy? VHS or DVD. I read it when it first came out and it kind of stuck with me. Thanks.

Don Bredes Thanks, Kent, good to hear of your interest. "Hard Feelings" was bought for distribution by 20th Century-Fox in 1982, I think, but never released in t…moreThanks, Kent, good to hear of your interest. "Hard Feelings" was bought for distribution by 20th Century-Fox in 1982, I think, but never released in the US. In 1989, however, it was released under another title, "Hang Tough," and was available on VHS from Monarch Home Video. It's a pretty bad movie, I'm afraid. (I was owed some $50K upon release, which of course I never did receive. This kind of thing happens often in the industry.) Finding the video would be difficult, I'm sure. My daughter tracked it down and found a copy for me online about ten years ago for a few bucks. I probably should have bought a couple of them.

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Don Bredes Writer's block is sometimes, for some writers, a troubling obstacle. Writing fiction is often difficult for a variety of artistic and personal reasons…moreWriter's block is sometimes, for some writers, a troubling obstacle. Writing fiction is often difficult for a variety of artistic and personal reasons. A they say, the page is always blank. If a writer is devoted, however, he will try hard to stick to an fixed schedule, even when the words are not coming easily or at all. When it's not going well, the idea is just keep to your desk. Don't permit yourself to stray from your routine. Copy somebody else's writing if that's all you can do. But write. (less)

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	Polly and the One and Only World 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2014 — 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
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	Cold Comfort 3.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2001 — 2 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
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POLLY AND THE ONE AND ONLY WORLD has just been selected by Foreword Reviews as a YA finalist for the Indiefab 2014 Book of the Year. The competition is strong and the candidates are many, so this is no small achievement.

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