Marie retired from her day job to become a full time fiction writer in 2003 and has completed two novels, both are Contemporary Women’s Fiction. She’s a member of the online writer’s workshop Write Stuff Extreme, active in two local writers groups and Zoetrope. She retired from NutraSweet after twenty-five years in marketing and sales to open her own business. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband Michael. PUBLISHED STORIES Online Literary Journals Houston Literary Review – The House Painter - lead story October 2007 http://thehoustonliteraryreview.com/fall2007fiction.aspx West Side Story – Summer Vacation – 2008 http://www.westsidestorycontest.com/SummerVacation1.htm Static Movement – My Son’s Wedding – 2007 http://www.staticmovement.com/Mysonswedding.htm Linnet’s Wings – Final Goodbye – Winter 2009 http://www.thelinnetswings.com/run/?stn=7000&mpageno=19&pageno=24 Linnet’s Wings – Community Property – Spring 2008 http://www.thelinnetswings.com/run/?stn=9015&mpageno=3&pageno=29 Long Story Short – No Destination – Winter 2008 (Final Goodbye also in this issue) http://www.alongstoryshort.net/nodestination.html MYTHOLOG – Hershel & Gertrude – Vol 5 Number 4 http://www.mytholog.com/fiction/shield_hershel.html Salome Magazine – Christmas Present – Winter 2007 http://salomemagazine.com/chamber.php?id=250 Atticus - Yule 2008 - A Linnets Wings Supplement – Dog Days of Christmas (also published Christmas Present in this issue) http://www.thelinnetswings.com/run/?stn=6100&mpageno=12&pageno=44 Stymie Magazine – Oy Vey – October 2008 –pages 19-25 http://issuu.com/stymiemag/docs/stymiemagfall08 Others include: Insolent Rudder – Cougar – Winter 2008, Appolo’s Lyre – Seven Deadly Sins – Summer 2008, Fiction Flyer – Local Boys –Winter 2008
Print Publications The MacGuffin – Winter 2009 – VolumeXXV No. 2 - Burn Barrel Timber Creek Review – Summer 2007 - Roommate from Hell See You Next Tuesday – The Second Coming - An Anthology of Short Stories published July 2008 - Available on Amazon - Hello, I Love You, and Farewell Mindprints – A Literary Journal – Allan Hancock College - Volume VII – 2007 - Morning Glory PENsieve – a collection of short stories 2008 - Edited by Davin Malasarn and funded by PEN Center USA and others - Expectations Curiouser and Curiouser – an anthology published by Daniel & Daniel 2005 - Dementia Contests & Awards Black Lawrence Press Chapbook Competition - 2008 Semifinalist - That Which Changes Everything – A Collection of Seven Short Stories http://www.blacklawrence.com/brcc-fall08finalists.html The Westside Story Contest 2007 – Honorary Mention - Summer Vacation http://www.westsidestorycontest.com/ Masks and Mirrors Contest 2007 – Honorable mention - Morning Glory Santa Barbara Writers Conference 2003 - Excellence in Writing Award & Beginning Writer Award - Women Need Not Apply, a novel Pariah Publishing – One Chapter Contest May 2005 - First chapter Women Need Not Apply, a novel http://www.onyxsun.com/publisher.html Dionysians est. 1935 to support women in the creative arts, Pasadena, CA. 2004 First Place award, first three chapters Women Need Not Apply, a novel Published excerpts from Unforgivable Acts, a novel Hello, I Love You, and Farewell – Community Property – Dog Days of Christmas – Expectations
I'm happier when I'm writing than I am doing anything else, what started as a hobby to fill the time I used to spend working and raising a family I started writing fiction, it has become an obsession.
Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, more recently Jhumpa Lahiri and Catherine Ryan Hyde and Jeffrey Eugenides. I have a new favorite book every year. This year's would be Middlesex, Eat,Pray Love, The Help.
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