Marianne Curley

I loved reading from a young age and scoured my school libraries during my younger years, but I never thought I would become a writer. It was not until my mid-thirties, while teaching office studies and computers to adults at the Coffs Harbour Education Campus that I began to think seriously about writing. I took several courses and experimented with different styles and genres. With two teenage daughters at the time I fell into writing young adult paranormal and have never looked back.My first four novels, Old Magic, The Named, The Dark and The Key, were published by Bloomsbury Publishing in Australia, the UK, and the USA, with translations into more than a dozen foreign languages. They have won numerous awards, and sold in numbers in excess of half a million books worldwide.In 2004, just as The Key was being prepared for printing, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer called Myelofibrosis. With only a short time to live, I was given a stem-cell bone marrow transplant using my sister’s cells, which saved my life. I have now been cancer free for eleven years and have written a new trilogy called The Avena Series. All three books - Hidden, Broken and Fearless are now published. I am presently working on two new young adult contemporary novels. Website: http://mariannecurley7.com Blog: http://oldmagicmountain.tumblr.com/Email: marianne.curley7@gmail.comFacebook :https://www.facebook.com/marianne.cur...Facebook Author: https://www.facebook.com/MarianneCurl...Insta: @marianne_curley