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I've always wanted to be a writer. I come by my storytelling abilities and interests naturally. My dad told wonderful bedtime stories about Bushy Tail Squirrel--his variation on the Br'er-Rabbit stories, and he wrote an often humorous hunting column for the local newspaper. Supper involved Southern tale-spinning from various family members. Coming from a large family and being quiet, at least quiet in comparison to my talkative family members, I tended to tell my stories only to myself. As I grew older, I fell in love with horses and books, and I wrote my first novel about a horse. Winged King was a whopping ten pages long. My inner stories soon involved my favorite TV characters, and I created a whole universe of different characters to interact with them. When I realized that Mr. Spock from Star Trek and Artemis Gordon from The Wild, Wild West couldn't really meet, I solved my problem by making many of my own characters members of a long-lived alien race of time travelers--the Immortals. Much later, I borrowed from these imaginative forays into an alien culture to write my first science fiction novel, The Once and Future Queen. My passion for books led me into graduate school as a literature major, and I used what little time and creative energy I had left to write poetry and an occasional short story, but I promised myself that one day I'd write the novels I had floating around my head. After my dad died from cancer in 1981, I realized that life was too short not to write those novels. A month after his death, I began my first novel, and I haven't really stopped since. More about Marilynn Best-selling author Marilynn Byerly's writing passion is adventure stories in the past, present, and future. In her creations of adventurers, suspense, true love, and villains to vanquish, she also likes to add a dash of the unexpected. Marilynn's Awards Best Up-and-Coming Author of 1998, Affaire de Coeur Finalist Reviewers on Marilynn From Romantic Times:
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From SF Romance:
TIME AFTER TIME
STAR-CROSSED
THE ONCE & FUTURE QUEEN
"The Werewolf Whisperer"
THE GAME WE PLAY
BY FATE'S HAND anthology
GUARDIAN ANGEL
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