ABOUT THE AUTHOR


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.



3 comments:

  1. Your couple kissing is like us:
    you're most invited where yooN
    eye could cuddle/nekk'n with
    baklava for hours upon hours,
    explorin, rightin, lovin N groovn
    Upstairs in the starrysky.Wanna?
    ●NOPEcantELOPE.blogspot.com●
    Cya soon, ya stunning wildflower...

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  2. Who doesnt wanna make love
    in 7thHeaven? Joyous/gratifying
    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:
    ● NOPEcantELOPE.blogspot.com ●
    Cya@the Wedding Party-Hardy...

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  3. ...tho we gotta git our
    endorphins high first.
    How? Mountain biking,
    utterly-gorgeous-babe.
    Ill show you how in 7thH...
    ♡ you, magnificent wildflower...

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