Writing a book was number one on Maris bucket list and on her thirty-fourth birthday, she set out to see that goal achieved. Now her computer is jammed full of stories novels, novellas, short stories and dead-ends. Shes been multi-published at Samhain Publishing, Elloras Cave, Carina Press and Liquid Silver Books. A New York Times and USA Today bestseller as well as winner of the Passionate Plume, Mari found time for writing by squeezing it into the hours between 3 a.m. and daybreak when her family is asleep and the house is quiet.