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May.17.2013
For the next two weeks, Amazon is featuring the non-fiction book I co-authored and it's available on Kindle for only $2.99!! Please help spread the word (I promised my publisher I could rock this)! For those who aren't familiar with the story, it's based on the true story of a family banished...
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Feb.29.2012
A book, I have come to believe, is rather like a house.
For the past six years I have been building a house of words from the ground up. I hammered every nail, placed every stone (at first I thought to write "brick" but the unique shapes of words, their roundness and roughness and varied colors...
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Feb.28.2012
I have a good friend who has recently hit a publishing wall. She's a great writer, with a published book that was nominated for a major award. Her writing inspires me. Now she has a second book out on submission and the process is killing her confidence in the unique way that only the...
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Feb.08.2012
Before I began writing full time, I was a production potter. I strove to create beautiful work that was also functional. For me, beauty and function have never been separate ideals. A pitcher that is easy to lift and pours a smooth stream of liquid without dripping is beautiful for how it...
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The women in these thirteen short stories will resonate with you long after you read this book. You will wonder about them as if they were your neighbors. You will even feel the urge to call them to make sure they are okay. Akers has imparted a fearless, fully-explored series of stories about how women try to break out of their emotional prisons in a way that will even touch readers who have nothing in common with these women. The stories are honest portraits of how women live through the life they are dealt with courage, strength and beauty.”
—Review of WOMEN UP ON BLOCKS, by Joan Hanna, Author Exposure
About Mary
Mary Akers' fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in various international journals such as Bellevue Literary Review, The Fiddlehead, and Primavera. Her personal essays on parenting and the writing life are forthcoming in several...
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Orion
Heifer International
Oceana
The Nature Conservancy
Women for Women International
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