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Mari is a half-Peruvian, half-American hobbit and pug owner who was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana where she grew up writing Sailor Moon/Gundam Wing fanfiction. She studied biology and Spanish at Indiana University where she decided to revive an old space opera she wrote in her high school years.

Mari, a native Hoosier, currently lives in southern Germany where she entertains people with her adventures as an American expat in the Land of Beer and Pretzels on her blog and YouTube channel Adventures of La Mari.com as well as the adventures of her pugs, Abner and Roxy. When she’s not writing, Mari cooks, snowboards, dances to the beat of her own drum, reads late into the night, and binge watches Netflix with her husband. The God Quee ...more

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A Deep Dive (No One Asked for) into US Cultural Identity

In those early days of motherhood, I spent a lot of time on European TikTok and what is a popular pastime is roasting Americans. I could do another episode on my very mixed feelings on the subject…but we’re not here to talk about that. What I do want to talk about is a topic that… Continue reading A Deep Dive (No One Asked for) into US Cultural Identity Read more of this blog post »

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Creating Character Arcs Workbook: The Writer's Reference to Exceptional Character Development and Creative Writing

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“Desperate people believe the lie because they want it to be true, and it distracts them from their own problems.”
― M.L. Tishner, The God Queen

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“You're not scared of me?"
"The truth? A little. But you are the god queen, destroyer of worlds or something like that. I would be worried if you weren't scary.”
― M.L. Tishner, The God Queen

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“She wanted to cleanse the world in fire.”
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“Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened, they were clinging together, blindly pressing their faces towards each other.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

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“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood