Aloha from Kapa`a, Kaua`i, Hawai`i

The Ka, a paranormal suspense novel.

The Tropics, a suspense novel.

ABOUT ME

Mary Deal was Founder and 1996-7 President of Kauai Writer's Roundtable. She writes in several genres.

The Tropics: Child of a Storm - Caught in a Rip - Hurricane Secret is an adventure romance and her first novel published. Tropics is a trilogy of entwined novellas about perils and dangers inherent in island living, with people being stretched to the limits of survival. The stories take place in both the Caribbean and Hawaiian Islands. Prior to publication, one of the novellas, Caught in a Rip, was workshopped on Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope, received high ratings, and was held by the editors for a year. More on that, as well as an excerpt and rave reviews for the novel, on Mary's Web site: Write Any Genre

The Ka, a paranormal Egyptian fantasy, takes place in both modern-day Valley of the Queens, Egypt as well as during Tutankhamon's 18th Dynasty. The manuscript was completed after four years of research and another four years of writing, re-researching, rewriting, and polishing.

River Bones, a thriller, was released in April 2008, and takes place in her childhood hometown area of the Sacramento River Delta in California.

Down to the Needle, a second thriller due for release in 2009, is set in a fictitious West Coast area. The first draft of this manuscript was completed during the years of research for The Ka and put aside till Ka was written and polished.

Mary has begun a new novel taking place mostly in Hawaii. This story was plotted back in the late 1960s when she lived in the Caribbean. The setting will be converted to the Hawaiian Islands. Modern forensics and technological advancement will enhance an already bizarre plot. This yet unnamed story has become a sequel to River Bones.

Her first screenplay, Sea Storm, adapted from the first of the three stories in The Tropics, was a semi-finalist in a Moondance International Film Festival competition.

She also presently works on a book of her mother's humor, several ebooks, with two other novels plotted and many more waiting.

Mary's short stories, photos, essays, articles, recipe stories, and other writings have placed in numerous anthologies, magazines, papers, periodicals, and on the Internet.

Her company, Mele Publishing, dba Starving Writer's Reprieve, successfully conducted two international writing contests, each offering a $1,000 Grand Prize. In time, more writing contests will be available on her Web site.

California born and presently residing on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, Mary has also lived in England and Puerto Rico.