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

All Keyed Up	Key Of Sea