Tell us about yourself.:
This is my official bio: Mary Elizabeth Fricke has lived her entire life within five miles of the Missouri River. She and her husband of 40 years have lived 38 of those years on a farm that has been consistently owned and operated by his family for five generations. They have two grown sons married to wonderful women and two beautiful grandchildren.
A graduate of the Writer's Institute of America and a member of the Heartland Writers Guild, she has published a number of articles in various forums and magazines. She is also a prolific ghostwriter.
Her stories, based in rural mid-western areas, concern the unique but quickly vanishing way of life on the family farm as well as other mysterious intricacies that evolve life from generation to generation. Romance is her preferred genre.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?:
I'm country, through and through.
But as I've grown older I've watched the existence of the 'family farm' dwindle acre by acre, generation by generation. The world we live in today is so different from the simple rural world that is engrained in my brain from childhood. The wish to preserve some of that precious time, way of life, has caused me to base my stories in rural areas and incorporate as much 'farm life' into them as is relevant to the story.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I'm a night owl. Is that unusal? The muse seems to flow much more freely in the dark, silence of the night after everyone else has gone to bed, the T.V. is off and the phone is not likely to ring.
What authors have influenced you?
I'm country, through and through.
But as I've grown older I've watched the existence of the 'family farm' dwindle acre by acre, generation by generation. The world we live in today is so different from the simple rural world that is engrained in my brain from childhood. The wish to preserve some of that precious time, way of life, has caused me to base my stories in rural areas and incorporate as much 'farm life' into them as is relevant to the story.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don't expect an easy road to publication. There aren't any. It takes a lot of stamina and determination just to get work published, whether you go with a traditional publisher or self-publish. And to not expect your work is done just because you got published. It's not, not by a long shot.
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