HAPPY EVER AFTERS WHERE THE DOG NEVER, EVER DIES.
Romance paired with folklore and authentic history. Stories crafted by human heart and mettle. Original story-telling. Complex and relatable characters voiced with tenderness and humor.
Characters show up at the crack of dawn, before I’m fully awake, and demand I write their story.
...you will not want to leave the world inside the pages. The author has done a fabulous job at creating a book you will not want to put down, and characters you do not want to leave behind.
It has all the hallmark qualities that we have come to expect from Maria's books: descriptions so vivid that you can almost taste them, quirky side characters, and strong bonds of friendship.
Being a little bit unhinged is required to be an author, but I don't claim to be mad enough to be a genius. I just have this pressing need to write all the lives I never lived. I make my husband help me act out scenes in our living room. He's been drunken sailors, dogs, and besotted suitors. He's even had to be furniture. And I love writing — unless it’s writer bios. These things I hate with the fervor of a thousand BBQs on the first warm day of spring.
You all know how it goes: went to school and more school, then even more school, until I didn't. Then I worked various jobs, until I didn't. Then I was married, until I wasn't and then, I got married again. Yada, yada...
Now to the important stuff:
I love balloons, the color pink, and Pride & Prejudice. Fozzie Bear is my spirit muppet. I listen to Toy Dolls, Dvořák and Luke Combs. I feed the magpies, and I always say Good Morning to the spiders in the bathroom, but I do have a complicated relationship to garden gnomes.
Just click the books already! (My friends on X told me to write that.)
