In the backyard of her parents home in National City, CA, Mary imagined she would grow up to be Wonder Woman, or the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. When she didn't grow up to look like Linda Carter and then realized she really didn't like working with people (as a director, one must unfortunately, work with lots and lots of them), she looked back on what her Grandma Margie had said to her.
"The best job in the world has to be an author. You can live wherever you want, while wearing what you want, and write stories."
Mary took stock of the fact that 96% of her worldly possessions amounted to books and 99% of her time to her imagination. In 1994, a career was born. Two screenplays, four manuscripts, 21 rejection letters, and nine years later she sold her first book, Hot Tamara, to HarperCollins Avon Trade. Mary's fifth release, Switchcraft was called, "a love letter to women."
And Grandma was right: writing books is the best job in the world!
Meet Mary and get between the pages at www.marycastillo.com!
