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Maria Ann Green

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Born

in St. Paul, The United States

September 24

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Twitter

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Genre

Contemporary, Thriller, Romance

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Maria, an internationally bestselling indie author, lives in Minnesota despite the frozen winters. Actually, she prefers snow drifts and icicles over summer and all that sweat running everywhere. She lives with her husband and little family, which includes a couple lazy cats who make great lap warmers. You can usually find her whishing that she lived in a secret cabin in the woods where she could be a hermit reading and writing all of the time. Instead she lives the suburban life where she pretends to her neighbors and the other moms around that she doesn’t swear like a sailor, have hidden tattoos, and loves a good bottle of wine. She absolutely believes in unicorns and ghosts and hopes vampires and monsters are real too. She's a coffee-in- ...more

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	Nothing but Darkness (Darkness Series, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deeper into Darkness (Darkness Series, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Rearview 4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edge Of Darkness (Darkness Series Book 3) 4.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Masque of Annabel: A Short Story 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Generation of Vipers 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miscarriage Isn’t A Dirty Word: A normalizing, illustrated, and poetic memoir of a miscarriage 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Time He Was Stuck In the Friend Zone by Maria Ann Green (Goodreads Author), Maria Ann Germain 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkness Series Box Set: (Books One Through Three) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Write Like Me: A Guide to Writing Like an Author Who’s Already Made All the Mistakes and Learned from Them (Author Like Me Book 2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Unfortunately tears don’t ever run out But they mean you are still here, still feeling”
― Maria Ann Green, Healing Isn't a Dirty Word Either: Affirmations After Miscarriage

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“Sometimes you’re not okay And that’s perfectly fucking okay And you don’t have to lie about it”
― Maria Ann Green, Healing Isn't a Dirty Word Either: Affirmations After Miscarriage

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“Your feelings are your feelings no matter how complex and confusing they are and they are all valid”
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“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: concealment, dark-plans, darkness, stealth

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“Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.”
― Margaret Stohl

tags: beautiful-darkness, darkness, hope

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“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
― Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

tags: literature, novels, writers, writing

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