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The author of the award-winning Fool's Luck and the Jim Mitchell series of novels, Dave Milbrandt fell in love with writing in junior high and has been a storyteller ever since. The Southern California native spent five years in journalism and public relations before teaching high school and college classes since 2001. Dave and his wife, a novelist, often can be found swapping story ideas. ...more

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Dave Milbrandt Prime Directive by Davis Bunn and The Letter Keeper by Charles Martin.
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Turning the Page

Picture For nearly 25 years I was a novelist, which sounds exciting until you realize it's mostly a lonely craft where you pound away at a keyboard for hours (and hours and hours) on a story that you edit for hours (and hours and well, you get the idea…). For many years, I gave up on writing creatively altogether.

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Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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