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MaryAnn Clarke
ALLi Author Member
Location: Canada
Genres: Commercial Fiction, Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Womens Fiction, Romance
Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Writing Workshop
MaryAnn Clarke is a USA Today Best-selling author of contemporary romance. She is a Chatelaine Grand Prize winner and Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist for The Art of Enchantment, first in the Life is a Journey series about young women on journeys abroad who discover themselves and fall in love while getting embroiled in someone else’s problems. Her Having it All series is about professional women struggling to balance the challenge and fulfillment of their careers with their search for identity, love, family and home. Her newest series begins with The Reporter's UNLIKELY Reunion, introducing a group of close friends ten years after high school graduation in their home town of Port Camosun on the west coast of Canada. Hiding From Christmas is the first in the Off The Grid Christmas trilogy.
Always eager to fill blank pages and empty canvases with ideas swirling in her head, MaryAnn set out to write emotionally engaging stories that walk a tight rope between intelligent Women’s Fiction and heart-warming Romance.
A polymath who studied Fine Arts, Urbanism, Architecture and Gerontology at university on both coasts of Canada, she turned to her first love, writing stories, when she realized she could have more fun with fewer rules to follow as an author, than working in an office as an architect, or in a university as a researcher. When not writing, she meditates while hiking wooded mountain trails, does yoga and Pilates to fend off decrepitude, reads eclectically, contemplates wormholes, experiments with painting abstract expressionism, kills plants and tries not to burn dinner while solving her next plot problem. Now that her chick has flown the coop, Clarke lives on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada with her husband. Although she knows she lives in Paradise, she still loves traveling the world in search of romance, art, good food and new story ideas.
MaryAnn Clarke's books
Be Mine This Time
From the award-winning author of The Art of Enchantment, comes Be Mine This Time, a compelling, heart-warming story of second chances, divided loyalties and the power of love to heal the wounds of the past.
Making Room for You
From the award-winning author of The Art of Enchantment, comes Making Room for You, an inspiring, heart-warming enemies-to-lovers romantic women’s fiction tale.
The Art of Enchantment
Chatelaine Grand Prize winning The Art of Enchantment is a beautifully written, evocative new adult (women's fiction) love story of art, history and passion set in Romantic Tuscany, about having the courage to answer the call of your true nature and finding family and home where you truly belong.
A Forged Affair
A giant with a heart of gold, a formidable talent, and crippling insecurity. A charming teacher who’s comfortable in two cultures, yet yearning for home. And the firebrand of a high-risk adventurer who crashes into their world, upsetting their expectations. How complicated could it get?
Single Dad in Studio 7D
Lucy Clough, a psychology researcher who has taken time out to focus on the one thing she needs to do: publish her adored late grandfather’s memoirs. Time is short, and Lucy can’t afford distractions.
Before You Knew Me
Coming Spring 2020
The Reporter's UNIKELY Reunion
He’s sweet, caring and loyal. She’s independent, ambitious and brave.
The Phoenix's UNLIKELY Prodigy
For the smartest girl in her grad class, Jeannie made a pretty stupid mistake. One that she’s spent ten years coming back from.