Marilyn's Musings

Despite having many classical children’s books as a child, I didn’t become a reader until I discovered the Nancy Drew books at twelve. Within two years, I started writing similar stories. I decided I wanted to write a book, get it published, and make it to number one in hardcover on the New York Times bestseller. And so the task to make that happened began. I wrote juvenile mysteries during my teen years and wrote a fictional biography at sixteen. Years later I realized it wasn’t long enough to be a novel, and I hope it’s buried in some garbage dump. That is certainly where it belonged. My first husband told me to get out of my fantasy world and quit writing. Like a good twenty-year-old I did. I went through two marriages, and I remarried again. It wasn’t until I lost custody of my children before I started writing again and have been writing since. That was the summer of 1974. Though that marriage and another failed, I finally found the right man, and he has continued to support m...