Ask the Author: Marie F. Martin
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Marie F. Martin
Hi Vonda, I just found your question. I'm on page 119 of Kristin Hannah's the Nightingale. so far I like it. Most of my reading is done for my critique group. there are six of us and we meet twice a month. I read about 20 pages per person and edit them. very time consuming, but the pay off is they read mine. I have learn to write this way.
Marie F. Martin
I got up in the morning, flipped on the light and looked in the mirror. The face looking back at me was not mine.
Marie F. Martin
This is a mind poking question. Where in all the books I have read through the years would I choose to live and work? I would pick a small town like in Fried Green Tomatoes. I would want to live in a two-story Victorian with a loving husband and at least five children. It would be near the railroad tracks and a mill pond. I would work in a fabric store, cutting yard goods for busy moms and elderly ladies quilt blocks. I would listen to gossip with kindness and never repeat it except in a book I was secretly writing at home. It could not be published until six-feet of rich southern soil covered my coffin.
Marie F. Martin
I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg and A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Marie F. Martin
The biggest mystery in my life is how the devil did I end up in this 75 year-old body, living a widow's life and happy about it? It's a mystery to me. I was raised in a small rural town near the local cemetery where I played as a child, watching funerals, horses in pastures, feeding chickens and reading books from the library. Now the valley is populated, busy and noisy. Why I never left is a mystery that could wind through many different possibilities. I wrote a novel based on a tragedy in my mother's life and readers have been kind in their reviews. Perhaps I'll write one about the mysterious neighbors I watch daily through my leaded glass windows.
Marie F. Martin
Lucy and Desi Arnaz. No matter which of the them screwed up, got in a pickle, or did a stupid selfish thing, they forgave each other and their love held true. Great example of faith in each other.
Marie F. Martin
I think Harbored Secrets with a middle aged woman building a house and remembering the past would make a great movie. Thanks for asking.
Marie F. Martin
Hi Lillian. Love your question, but I have no idea how many do. I honestly can't see how they can turn out so many stories without using them. My next book (Ratham Creek) will be out in a month or so, and I have written and fiddled with it for over eight years. I finally put it on the back burner and wrote Maternal Harbor and Harbored Secrets while it rested. Thanks for asking.
Marie F. Martin
Readers enjoying my words on paper and then telling me about it.
Marie F. Martin
Take a tablet, not a computer, sit down and write what ever pops into your mind. Soon the pages will begin to fill and then you can put them into a computer.
Marie F. Martin
Mundane house work. I let my mind wander as I iron, scrub, vacuum or whatever. I can usually solve a plot problem that way, and when the problem is gone, the words flow.
Marie F. Martin
The book I am working on now is called Ratham Creek. As a child I heard stories of a group people living in the mountains near a creek that were descended from homesteaders out of West Virginia. They had left their home because of the family feuding.
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