When Otters Play - Purl, Mara

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Biographie:
Mara Purl is the best-selling author of the Milford-Haven Novels, which pioneered small-town fiction for women. Her books have won an unprecedented 75 book awards, and Mara was named Fiction Author of the Year by The Authors Show, the preeminent podcast for indie authors. As one of the most respected and successful independently published authors of women's fiction in the U.S., she is a trend-setter whose work has been consistently noted as an example by fellow authors. In the newest publishing model, she exemplifies direct contact with readers as every new book in her series hits #1 on multiple best-seller lists on Amazon.Mara's beloved fictitious town has been delighting audiences since 1992, when it first appeared as Milford-Haven, U.S.A.(c)-the first American radio drama ever licensed and broadcast by the BBC. The show reached an audience of 4.5 million listeners throughout the U.K. and won the Finalist Award at the 1994 New York Festivals World's Best Radio Programs. What the Heart Knows (Book one), Where the Heart Lives (Book Two), and Why Hearts Keep Secrets (Book Three) all reached #1 on Amazon's best-seller lists, #22 on Barnes & Noble's best-seller list, have been ranked in Kobo's top-100. The newest novel in her series Whose Hearts Align makes its debut this autumn. Mara's novellas When Hummers Dream, When Whales Watch, and When Otters Play along with her Holiday Novelettes, Where an Angel's On a Rope, When Angels Paint, and Whose Angel Key Ring are all also best-sellers, and so is her paranormal Novella for the series What the Soul Suspects.Mara is a former journalist (Associated Press, Financial Times of London, Rolling Stone, et al) which gave her a strong foundation for her research-based stories. And as an actress on Days of Our Lives, she learned the long-form of story which helped her create her successful radio drama, which in turn led to the development of her richly complex novel series. Mara was named one of twelve Women of the Year by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women....

Sommaire:
Mara Purl is the best-selling author of the Milford-Haven Novels, Novellas & Novelettes which, to date, have earned more than 75 book awards and appeared on multiple best-seller lists. Purl pioneered small-town fiction for women with her saga, which is based on her original hit radio drama Milford-Haven, U.S.A. (c), the first American radio drama ever licensed and broadcast by the BBC where it reached an audience of 4.5 million listeners throughout the U.K.Mara's writing credits include plays, screenplays, scripts for Guiding Light, cover stories for Rolling Stone, staff writing with the Financial Times (of London), and the Associated Press. She is the co-author (with Erin Gray) of Act Right. Mara is the Founder of S.T.A.R. - Student Theatre And Radio, a program she taught for fifteen years in three states.As an actress, Mara was Darla Cook on Days Of Our Lives. She has appeared in multiple productions of Becoming Julia Morgan and Sea Marks in California and elsewhere, and she performs Mary Shelley - In Her Own Words, winner of the 2003 Peak Award. Mara grew up in Tokyo, Japan, and earned a performing and literary degree from Bennington College. She was named one of twelve Women of the Year by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women.Mara is a frequent presenter at writers' conferences, a national spokeswoman for women on Women's Fiction, Heart Matters (women's health) and she performs audio books. She is married to Dr. Larry Norfleet, and lives in Los Angeles, California, and in Colorado Springs, Colorado....