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Marjorie Reynolds

Marjorie Reynolds is an award-winning author, conference speaker, writing instructor and former movie-advertising executive. For four years, she taught advanced popular fiction in the University of Washington Outreach Program in Seattle. William Morrow & Co. published her novels, The Starlite Drive-in and The Civil Wars of Jonah Moran in hardcover, and Berkley released them in paperback. She recently collaborated with two other authors on a comic mystery titled Murder at Cape Foulweather. The American Library Association chose The Starlite Drive-in as one of the Ten Best Books of 1998 for Young Adults. It also received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and it was optioned for film. It was a Literary Guild alternate selection and a Reader’s Digest Select Editions book. Rights were sold to seven countries. HarperCollins republished The Starlite Drive-in in paperback in 2011. Ms. Reynolds’s novels have received praise in The New York Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist as well as in numerous other newspapers and publications. She has been a speaker and conference presenter for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, the Oregon Writers Colony, Willamette (OR) Writers, the South Carolina Writers Workshop, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Trade Show, Northwest Bookfest in Seattle, The Los Angeles Book Fair, The South Carolina Book Festival, the Edmonds (WA) Write on the Sound Conference, Seattle Writers Association and Seattle Free Lances. She has spoken at various other literary arts events, and on radio programs in Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, OR and Bloomington, IN have interviewed her. She has also been featured in newspapers throughout the country. Before starting her fiction-writing career at the age of 47, Marjorie worked as a newspaper reporter in Indiana, Iowa, California and Washington and later became Cineplex Odeon’s regional advertising director for the Pacific Northwest. In the summer, she and her husband live on Camano Island, WA, amid the eagles, deer, blue herons and other assorted wildlife, and in Palm Desert, CA. in winter.