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Mark Saha

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Mark Saha grew up in cotton country along the Texas Gulf Coast, earned a BA at the University of Notre Dame, and attended film school at UCLA, where a collection of his short stories won a Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Award and led to many years of writing scripts for film and television. Growing up in Texas he worked on a doodlebug crew blowing shot lines across the Big Thicket, drove a tractor hauling trash wagons at a cotton gin near Fairchild, and worked cattle on foot on his father’s farm outside Sealy. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 177 ratings · 62 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Lady Joe 3.67 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Lost Horses 3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings — 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
	Mystery Manor: A Spooktacular 3-D Playset it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001 — 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
	A Dangerous Balancing Act: Amsterdam 1940-1945 by Marga Grünberg, Mark Saha (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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

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Book For Every Season

Lost Horses got a good podcast review (3 minutes) on Laurel Pinkney’s Book For Every Season today.

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Stealing Hollywood: Story Structure Secrets for Writing Your Best Book

by Alexandra Sokoloff (Goodreads Author)

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The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

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I first met Warren at Rice University while visiting my parents in Houston in 1975. He called my folks’ house to say he had started the Texas Film Commission while working for Governor Preston Smith in Austin and thought we should meet. Warren was st ...more
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