The short story: Marion is a novelist and former screenwriter who lived for many years in Los Angeles, but the siren call pulled her back home to Cape Cod where she lives with her family, works part-time in a little library by the sea and spends the rest of her time looking for mermaids and working on her next novel.

The longer story: Marion grew up in a multiracial family in a small New England town. Her siblings were two of the only non-white kids she knew and while she could never possibly comprehend the depths of the ‘otherness’ they felt, she was impacted in a way she still struggles to identify and rectify with and is just one facet of her ongoing quest to understand and relate to the world around her, most tangibly through her writing. Growing up, Marion was tall, athletic, ambitious and adventurous and after feeling like she was majoring in volleyball (she played for UMass Lowell) for a couple of years in college she moved to Arizona and after a brief stint studying film at NYU she graduated from Arizona State University and moved to Los Angeles the day after graduation. She lived there for many years in the dazzling lights and warm Southern California sun, hobnobbing with the famously funny and well-to-do, chasing after the Jones’s and eventually starting a family. It was then that she started to think about her writing as something more than just a hobby. For the next few years she wowed her friends and family with spec scripts and pilots, short stories, children’s stories and more, but literary and screenwriting success proved elusive. After running all over town pitching this project and that script with moderate success, and bearing the casualty of personal relationships gone awry, LA had run its course for her. The summers she had spent with family on Cape Cod became year-round as her search for happiness, a greater understanding of the world and nature, a desire to figure out the meaning of it all and the possibility of true love propelled her to move back home to her beloved Massachusetts. A short while later her first novel, “Some Doubt About It” was published by Lake Union and she has several others in the pipeline in varying stages of publication. Writing is very solitary and looking for ways to meet new people she began working a few hours a week at a ‘tiny, but mighty’ library by the sea where she is surrounded by books, plants and wonderful people, and now she’s got a little puppy who is as interested in strolling the bogs and beaches looking for mermaids as much as she is. She continues to search for truth, connection and the right words with varying degrees of success.