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Although she was raised as a Military Brat, Marilyn Celeste Morris was born in her grandfather's house in Toronto, Texas, a small Southern Pacific Railroad Section six miles west of Alpine. Perhaps as an omen of what would be the next twenty years of her life, the railroad's abandonment of this settlement shortly afterward left her with no "permanent" home.
Schooling consisted of Dependents' Schools while overseas, in Seoul Korea, 1946-47 and Linz, Austria (1949-1952) and various schools stateside. A rarity for a Military Brat, she was fortunate enough to have attended all three high school years and graduated at Lawton Senior High School, Lawton OK. Further education was attained at Cameron State College, Lawton OK, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth TX, and North Texas State University. She received an AAS Degree in Mental Health in 1995.
Morris began her writing career as a guest columnist in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and for ten years wrote a weekly humor/human interest column for a weekly newspaper in the Fort Worth TX area. She recently compiled a selection in "My Ashes of Dead Lovers Garage Sale -And Other Stories from a Single Woman of a Certain Age."
Her first novel,"Sabbath's Gift," a supernatural murder mystery, was closely followed by Once a Brat, Always a Brat: part travelogue, part therapy session, relating her world-wide travels with her army officer father during the Post WWII years. Her other non-fiction work is "The Cards We're Dealt," referring to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. a collection of personal journal entries about her struggles with SLE. An outgrowth of her experiences and her mother as a dependent is the novel, "The Women of Camp Sobingo," where four women meet aboard a ship bound for a remote military compound outside Seoul, Korea, immediately following the end of WWII. They form a bond that will sustain them through numerous hardships, and at a reunion twenty-five years later, secrets and sorrows are at last revealed.
One of her characters in this novel is based on her mother's experiences, except, her mother sniffs, "I most certainly didn't have an affair with a Catholic priest." Her third novel, "Forces of Nature," followed.
Her most recent novel is "The Unexplored Heart", a historical romance set in 1860's London where the heroine transcribes the journeys of the fictional explorer, Harrison Courtland and in the process, each finds his/her own heartfelt romance.
As she typed "The End" to "The Unexplored Heart," a minor character barged into her office and said, "I want my own book." So Esther Wooster, the intrepid researcher will see HER novel soon. It is titled, "After Camelot: Esther's Quests."
She has taught creative writing at Tarrant County College, Fort Worth TX, survived numerous book signings and speaking engagements; and is experienced in interviewing on both radio and television.
When not writing or editing emerging writers' manuscripts, Morris enjoys searching for former classmates and true to her Brat heritage, she has a suitcase packed under the bed, ready to travel at a moment's notice.
Marilyn Celeste Morris may be reached by email: marilyncmorris@sbcglobal.net to schedule a speaking engagement or arrange for editing services. See also
Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/KSq5Ya
and Vanilla Heart Publishing:http://bit.ly/LIq9iy
Free reads: First four chapters of all my books: http://bit.ly/JZM0j4
for excerpts of all her books.
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