 Mary
Stella.
When I was a young girl, I walked on the beach in my Jersey
hometown and held a shell to my ear. Instead of
the ocean,
I heard a voice proclaim, "You should write a book someday." I
raced home, grabbed a #2 pencil and some of that weird fuzzy
paper used in elementary school and
scribbled my first story. The plot involved a family of chickens
visiting the city, hardly
Pulitzer-worthy, but it inspired me to give up my previous
career aspiration of riding the
High-Diving horse on Steel Pier in Atlantic City.
Since that fateful
day, although my career choices all involved writing, the
desire to write a book lingered. A few years
back, I had an 'aha' moment and realized that the book wasn't
going to spring fully written from my brain. If 'someday'
was ever going to come, I'd better get
cracking. My debut novel All Keyed Up for
Medallion Press (July 2004) was
the result. Key Of Sea returns readers to the fabulous
Florida Keys.
I now make my home
in the Florida Keys, a place that I think is beautiful,
fun and filled with interesting characters and situations.
I
hope to introduce you to more of them in
future books.
Web Site: www.mary-stella.com
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