Shows with dynamite writing -- although I have a strange fascination with the "competition" shows like Dancing with the Stars, American Idol and America's Got Talent. Nothing like going from the sublime to the ridiculous to the just plain "out there".
About me: When I was a young girl, I walked on the beach in my New Jersey hometown one day 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.
I’ve been a voracious book fan since first learning to read as a young child. I began reading romance novels in the late 1970s while I pursued my B.A. degree in English from Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ. Romance novels provided the break I needed from analyzing and writing papers about everything else I was reading for my studies.
A lot of years passed and along the way all my career choices involved writing. Among other things, I’ve worked as a radio copywriter, public relations account executive, newspaper stringer and magazine journalist.
Still, always in my mind lingered that early phrase, “You should write a book someday.” In the mid-1990s, I experienced a sparkling ‘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.
After some failed attempts and several learning experiences, I wrote a book that combines my love of romance novels and my love of dolphins. That book was All Keyed Up, my debut release for Medallion Press.
I now make my home in the Florida Keys an island chain of unique beauty and some equally unique characters. It wasn’t a stretch to also set my second book, Key of Sea here in the Keys, where I never run out of inspiration.
Please visit my website www.mary-stella.com. For frequent musings on life in the Keys and life in general, drop by my blog at www.starfabu.bravejournal.com.
Who I'd like to meet: People with similar interest in writing and reading romance novels.
Hope you are having a wonderful birthday, Mary! Here's to a fabulous year ahead where everything you desire comes your way! Happy Birthday, my friend! Linda
Did you know... When you read a Romance, it creates a chemical reaction in your brain which makes you feel good It relieves stress naturally You experience a emotional feeling of well being as the Hero ultimately will provide in the Heroin's deepest needs The youngest readers are teenagers, and the oldest in their 90's Romance readers are the most read in the world, the are strong, intelligent and creative woman who know what they want psychologist agree, that romance readers are warm, friendly and sensual 2% of men that read romance, want to understand their woman...clever men! HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR THE 5TH MANY BLESSINGS AND MUCH LOVE FOR THE YEAR AHEAD
