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Mary's Interests
Music
Classic rock and country for the most part.
Movies
Too many to mention.
Television
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.
Just wanted to give you a heads up that my latest forensic crime thriller, Freezer Burn, is coming out Tomorrow, June 3! It’s available for preorder on Amazon right now. I'll be doing a bunch of events in and around Philadelphia. For details, see my profile. Thanks for the friendship!
Writing as D. H. Dublin, Jon McGoran is author of Blood Poison and Body Trace from Penguin Books. Look for Freezer Burn, coming June 2008.
Please feel free to visit my blog at www.jjhebertblog.com. Make sure to subscribe as well, okay? If you want to know more about me, you can check out www.jjhebert.net.
2008 VENICE BEACH / LOS ANGELES NEW PLAYWRIGHT AWARDS & 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL WWW.VENICEBEACHARTISTS.COM | www.myspace.com/lanewplaywrightawards WE INVITE THE WORLD TO SUBMIT ORIGINAL WRITINGS-WIN CASH & AWARDS!
August 15th, 16th, 17th & August 29th, 30th and 31st & SPOKEN WORD FESTIVAL - PERFORMANCES: August 29th, 30th 31st!
*100 New Plays | 100 new Authors | 10 to 25 talented new Stage and TV Directors. Actors from around the world will perform many roles. *Sets designed by professional Artists and Art Students and creative Make-Up and Costume Arts by new talents. *An historic joining of the Internet and TV production, with the “Live” Theater performances of over 100 new TEN MINUTE ONE ACT PLAYS performed with a live audience in a Studio *on August 15th, 16th, 17th & August 29th, 30th and 31st. The scheduled Internet (Streaming Feed) broadcasts in September, 2008.
*"BEST OF FESTIVAL AWARDS" for: + Best - Plays (10 minutes to 3-Acts, up to 12 actors) AWARDS: $100.00 - $500.00 - $1,000.00 each! + Best - BOOKS (Every genre, Publisher, or Self-Published) AWARDS: $100.00 - $500.00 - $1,000.00 each! + Best - MOVIE SCRIPTS (Independent and Art House to Feature length) + Best - POETRY (All styles and types of poetry, published or unpublished) + Best - SONG LYRICS (Original song lyrics, all genres) AWARDS: $100.00 - $500.00 - $1,000.00 each! + Best - SPOKEN WORD POETRY (Writing and Performance) - AWARDS: $100.00 - $500.00 - $1,000.00 each! (Spoken Word Poetry (Submit digital audio or MPEG, AVI or MOV files)
MANY SPECIAL MERIT WRITING AWARDS FOR PLAYS - BOOKS - SCRIPTS - $1,000.00 each! Submissions are open world-wide. Have your Play produced or Poetry Read in the 2008 Festival! (Accepting ACTORS audition submissions to perform in L.A. this Summer.) (Accepting MODELS photo submissions for the Festival Model images and Public Relations.)
Mary thanks for the add! I'm looking forward to seeing you again in Pittsburgh. Can't wait to see what the slush pile comes up with this year! Cheers! JoAnne
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Are you like me? <a href="http://www.rockyou.com/events/track.php?event=ms-lk-c-q1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rockyou.com%2Flikeness%2Fquiz.php%3Fq%3D59">Take my "30 days to live" Quiz to find out!</a>
Have you met a Lamed Vovnik? Find out in THE BOOK OF NAMES. There are still two weeks left to enter our contest, tell me about your Lamed Vovnik, and win autographed books. Come visit my page or check out my website: www.karentintori.com, and then inspire the world with news of your Lamed Vovnik encounter. It could make the rest of winter a little sunnier!! :) Ciao, Karen
