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Mar Preston, Mystery Author

Mar Preston is a Canadian citizen living in California.She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in history, and from the University of Southern California with a Master's Degree in Creative Writing. She is the author of No Dice featuring Detective Dave Mason of the Santa Monica Police Department.

Books

 * No Dice, published by Pertinacity Press, December 2010

A Second Detective Dave Mason novel titled Rip-Off is due in late 2011. A second series is set for publication, featuring Detective Dex Stafford of the Kern County Sheriff's Department, Homicide. The locale is Bakersfield,Californian and the surrounding mountains.

Publications

 * Numerous short story and poetry publications in long-forgotten literary magazines.

Blogs

 * Is it any wonder people are disgusted with government? At marpreston.com.

This blog focuses on official decisions affecting the environment and quality of life for both affluent residents and the poor people in California's San Joaquin Valley. Incidentally, the central Valley is the bread basket and gas pump of much of the nation.

Write-on Mystery: a group blog which challenges members to offer reflections on life itself, the writer's life, and the joys and woes of the mystery author's craft.

Personal

 * Preston makes a temporary home in a small village in the Kern County Mountains of central California. Temporary because she has waves of longing to go back to Santa Monica, and also return to Northern Ontario, Canada where she was born and raised.

She is a habitual do-gooder and lifelong volunteer in civic affairs, Democratic and municipal election campaigns. The most thankless board service thus far has been as a director of a Property Owners Association. Preston is a co-founder of the Mountain Communities Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She fosters cats for the SPCA, who somehow become permanent members of her own cat and dog family.

Her work career was as a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California.

Official Website

 * marpreston.com

Categories

 * American mystery writers | Police procedural writers | American police procedural writers | Writers from Canada | Writers from California | University of California, Los Angeles | University of Southern California, Los Angeles | People from Parry Sound, Ontario | People from North Bay, Ontario |Living People | 1944 Births |