Hello, and welcome to my website. By scouting around the site, you can read my BLOG , as well as find more information about me, my services, and my BOOKS. For those needing editorial help with a manuscript, you can find my rates, as well as experience and references, by clicking on EDITORIAL SERVICES.
I love to support other authors on my blog with reviews and guest posts. Those reviews cover fiction and nonfiction, and authors can find details at REVIEW GUIDELINES.
I started writing with a pen and paper those many moons ago before computers, but I rarely used a pen as fine as the one below. Common writing utensils consisted of stubs of pencils my kids left scattered around the house, or ball-point pens with an ad for A-One Plumbing emblazoned on them. Still, I wrote, and continue to write.
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Next Chapter publishing has recently made this short story collection available at Smashwords with a discount. Use the code below to get the book for only .99.
Beyond The Crack In The Sidewalk
LINK TO SMASHWORDS: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1122179
USE COUPON CODE: EC4V9
Check back to see if Next Chapter puts all my books with them on sale for the mid-summer sale at Smashwords.
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In the meantime, my Indie book, The Wisdom of Ages is on a 50% discount thru the end of July as part of their Summer/Winter sale.
Three stories; four men whose lives take unexpected turns.
Meet Samson who wonders what is down that country road that draws people so. Should he get in that old truck and go see? Mel and Rube have been having dinner at the Leavenworth Grill every Wednesday for years. One day the menu changes and so does life for Mel.
Award-winning stories.
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To see all my books published by Next Chapter Publishing:
My author page at BookShop
Books at Smashwords
Amazon
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Desperate Season, the third book in the Seasons Mystery Series, was honored with a Book Excellence Award in the Mystery category. It’s a police procedural story featuring two women homicide detectives, Sarah and Angel, who fight crime on the mean streets of Dallas. The book has a lot of reviews on Amazon, with this most recent one: “Maryann’s writing takes one thru many twists and turns and always gives one a feeling of wanting more! Superlative writing!”
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Success for many authors is that heart-to-heart connection we make with people who read our words and relate.
*** Who wouldn’t be thrilled to get this note from a reader! ***
“I have read thousands of books in the past and thought that your books were as good and even better than any other that I have read.”
What a terrific endorsement!
Happy readers make happy writers.
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