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Marie Bostwick

Marie Bostwick Skinner was born in Eugene, Oregon and raised in the Northwest. She vividly remembers the day she got her very own library card. "I was about three years old and had just learned to write my first and last name, a skill which qualified me to become a library patron. I nagged my poor mother until she drove me downtown to get my card so I could check out my first book 'Hop On Pop' by Dr. Seuss."

It was the beginning of a lifetime love affair with the written word. As a girl, Marie wrote love stories featuring lots of handsome princes in fast cars and extensive descriptions of the heroine's wardrobe. In high school she began writing short stories and, "lots of sad, self-pitying, teenage poetry."

Marie was lucky enough to meet the love of her life, Brad at a young age. They've been married for nearly twenty-five years. However, between marriage, motherhood, finishing her college education, and moving a score of times for her husband's career, there wasn't much time left for writing. Life was happy just the same. Marie enjoyed raising her three sons, working in a variety paid and volunteer jobs, and making time for hobbies like quilting, cooking, and reading . . . always reading.

In 1994, Marie wandered into a writer's workshop and her old romance with words was rekindled. At the instructor's urging, she began writing again. She completed one short story a month for more than three years though she never submitted them, feeling her work was not yet ready for publication. Marie plugged away; raising her sons, doing volunteer work, taking seminary courses, working in professional ministry, and month by month teaching herself to write. Finally one of her short stories refused to stay short. It grew into Marie's first novel, FIELDS OF GOLD, published by Kensington in September of 2005. Her second novel, River's Edge is due for release in the fall of 2006.

Today, Marie lives and writes in Connecticut with her husband, Brad, and their sons.

http://www.mariebostwick.com

Books:

A Thread So Thin, May 2010
Cobbled Court #3
Snow Angels, November 2009
A Thread Of Truth, June 2009
Cobbled Court #2
A Single Thread, November 2008
Cobbled Court #1
Comfort and Joy, November 2007
On Wings of the Morning, November 2007
River's Edge, September 2006
Fields of Gold, September 2005