A slow start - and perseverence

Author Bret Halliday was the creator of detective Michael Shayne, who has made his way through a series of novels, movies, radio shows and a television series. Halliday was not an instant success as a writer, though. The jacket to his novel, This Is It, Michael Shayne, tells us that he first thought of writing when he entered a contest in 1937. And then, "during the next three years, he wrote more than two mllion words and didn't sell a line." A slow start, but he stayed with it.


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