As holder of numerous IWL state and chapter offices, she has also nurtured the creative process by organizing conferences, seminars and individual workshops where excellence in writing is taught by skilled teachers filled with supportive ideas and critiques.
Born on the Ute Indian Reservation, Maryn had a far-from-normal upbringing. This background has furnished endless grist for her writing mill.
Her books, published by Zondervan, Guideposts, David C. Cook, and Barbour, have won her the Idaho Writer�s League Writer of the Year award and Idaho and National Press Women Novel of the Year. These novels have an international readership and she receives fan mail from submarine crews, cowboys on the rodeo circuit, as well as women of all ages.
Maryn writes Western historical, character-driven novels where shared adversity brings respect and finally healing and love to her heroes and heroines. They commit themselves to a relationship that stands every chance of being lifelong. Her latest, The Christmas Necklace, in the anthology, A Prairie Christmas and Christmas on the Prairie, has had record sales for the past two Christmases including selling out at Wal-Mart. She is currently working on a suspense novel set in the Frank Church Wilderness of Idaho.
Create a compelling lead character for your scene. Learn different ways to begin the scene, build it through conflict that gets worse and worse. Wreck the train and get the lead character out alive . . .or not.
