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 I can't believe how long it has been since I've blogged! Wow!  Time flies is an understatement. I honestly can’t believe it has been more than 2 1/2 years. *shame faced* I have no excuse, but do owe you at least the story. So, grab your coffee or wine …The end of 2014 and all of 2015 was a nightmare. I was in a dark place mentally, emotionally … I didn’t write more than a grocery list for 13 months. A product of the depression or the cause, I don’t know. It sucked. Writing is my passion and my escape as well as my income! (thank GOD for my hard working hubby) I tried everything. I tried continuing The Trinity Falls Series .. I tried returning to the McCade’s farm … I looked for new new inspiration … and couldn’t break through the darkness. With 2016 fast approaching Fyn  suggested I enter the official contest here on WDC. (The poor thing had tried everything else to drag me back to the land of the living) I had a month. I waited until I had 5 days to even have an idea for the picture prompt. The 2000 words that came out of that idea were like nothing I had ever wrote. They were dangerously close to what Adriana Noir  and I had always laughingly referred to as “Fluffy Bunny.” It was romance without grit. The heroine was short, hippy, funny and ridiculously real in my head. Her hero was a stocky teddy bear. I fell in love with both.I won the Short Shots contest and as January started I decided (with my friend’s boot in my butt) to see where these new characters would go. I finished book 1 in June just as my son was headed off to basic training and dove into book 2 in order to survive. (SO proud of him and SO scared all at the same time) The problem was … I had this ridiculous fear/worry that the book wasn’t very Mara … it was too sweet and funny and didn’t have the grit or edge I usually think of, but I LOVED it and the characters. So I quietly published it under the pen name,abrand. In March book two joined it. Write Time for Love and Guided Home. This isn’t a surprise to some of you. I didn’t do a good job of hiding it, but I really should have celebrated it instead. Even the 7 … (Soon to be 8!!) Mara McBain books are different, and appeal to different readers. Maybe some of you like funny romance. I love writing AND reading different genres. Add Fluffy Bunny Romance to the list. So that’s the story of the last 2 1/2 years plus … darkness … worries … new genre … pen name and all. If you’ve actually read this far you’re f’n amazing and I love you. LOL Peace & Creativity! ~ Mara  |
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and support here can get us through some really rough times, or in my case drag me back out of the darkness.
And Fyn's website reads very interesting. It's always cool to see the people beyond the handle. You two look as if you had a great time. 
(It would've been a NYC harbor pic. 
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I don't know why it's so hysterical though as we have some pretty weird town names in Bavaria, too, like Pups (=fart) or Lederhose (=leather pants). No, I didn't imagine those. 
