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MJ Schiller |
I was born in Overland Park, KS, grew up in St. Louis, MO, went to school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and moved to Bloomington, IL fresh out of college. I worked as a high school/junior college teacher, personnel recruiter, office manager of a jewelry store, and, for the past ten years, as a lunch lady. I like to karaoke and attend rock concerts. I'm also actively involved at church and spend too much time on Facebook. I am the mother of a seventeen-year-old, fifteen-year-old triplets, and have been married to my husband, Don, for over twenty-four years.
I have been a writer all my life. My first book, which was co-written with Mary Ellen Murphey in second grade, was titled The Black Cat, and was written on blue hotel stationary, hole-punched, and bound by white yarn. I believe it is currently out of circulation.
When I turned forty, I had an epiphany of sorts. I realized those bigwig publishing houses in New York were now probably run by people younger than me, so I shouldn’t be intimidated by them. At about the same time, I was watching one of those award shows, and Jaclyn Smith got up to give a posthumous award to Aaron Spelling. She credited him for encouraging her to go into acting, saying something brilliant like, “Reach for your dreams.” Nothing new. Almost even seems a little Jiminy Cricketish. But, for some reason, it struck me that night. When Aaron Spelling was thirteen, he was probably just like any other acned thirteen-year-old. But he worked to achieve his dreams, and became a household name. So, I began to write. Once I finished my first book,I wasn't able to stop. I would rather write than do just about anything else. After all, I get to make people (characters) do what I want, and design their happy endings. What power!
And what a privilege.
Your couple kissing is like us:
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eye could cuddle/nekk'n with
baklava for hours upon hours,
explorin, rightin, lovin N groovn
Upstairs in the starrysky.Wanna?
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Cya soon, ya stunning wildflower...
Who doesnt wanna make love
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for both for E T E R N I T Y!
I certainly do. But, yet, we gotta
follow the Rules of sHe on this
feeble, fallible, finite façade first.
Meet me the d'RongWay café
Upstairs. I'll explain moe, Curly:
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Cya@the Wedding Party-Hardy...
...tho we gotta git our
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How? Mountain biking,
utterly-gorgeous-babe.
Ill show you how in 7thH...
♡ you, magnificent wildflower...