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 I was born in LaMirada, California, and was raised in Cadott, Wisconsin. My father joined the U.S. Army after I completed fifth grade. I have lived in Georgia, Germany and Texas. I graduated from a Department of Defense High School in Augsburg, Germany, in 1989. I graduated with a bachelor of arts in journalism from the University of Texas at El Paso in December 1994.  I married my husband, Craig, on May 4, 1996, in El Paso, Texas. After that, I joined the Army, where I served a broadcast journalist from 1996-2001. I was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, the same base my father had been assigned years before, and Vilseck, Germany.
My husband & I moved to southeastern New Mexico in July 2001. I worked as lifestyles editor for a small daily newspaper in southeastern New Mexico for 5 1/2 years. In 2007 I began a new adventure at the paper I've worked for the past five years, I became the education reporter.
In 2006 I became a graduate student because I wanted to become a teacher in language arts, social studies and drama at the secondary level. I started at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico, in August 2006, where I completed nine credit hours. In fall 2007 I will continue to pursue a Masters of Science degree in Education and teaching license at University of the Southwest (formerly College of the Southwest) in Hobbs. I hope to graduate in spring 2010.
As a journalist I have had numerous features and a few news stories published by Associated Press in newspapers across the country.
I have volunteered as a leader with Girl Scouts. I was a Scout for eight years as a child and earned the Girl Scout Gold and Silver Award. I've been involved in Girl Scouting 20 plus years; in 2006 I became a lifetime member of Girl Scouting. Now that I'm a graduate student, I have a small role as a volunteer with the Lea County Girl Scouts.
I have also been a mentor for Lea County Women's Network and the Wise Men and Women program at Hobbs Municipal Schools.
I started writing at age 14.  It was at that age that I started delving into journalism as well, working for my high school and later my college paper.
I write both poetry and fiction, primarily romance novels.  My short stories are not the typical, traditional short story. They are more like novellas, ranging from 10,000 words or more. 
My writing style is episodic, which lends itself well to the serial or series writing I primarily do. I often can see my work being used as a play, TV show or movie -- this can be done easily in episodic style. I use a lot of dialogue and my characters and situations seem real because  I tend to write about personal experiences and real people but exaggerate it. 
I have had many adventures and love to share, so if you ever want to talk about writing you know what to do ... just be prepared for your ear to turn blue.



Birth Place: LaMirada, CA USA

Accomplishments: Published three poems, "A Desert Storm", "Princess, Please Don't Cry" and "Inside the Essence of Me" in El Portal, New Mexico University's literary magazine in fall edition 2006.
Won third place in the spots news category in the New Mexico Associated Press Newspaper Editors Contest in 2006.
Won third place in the features category in the New Mexico Associated Press Newspaper Editors Contest in 2005. Won second- and third-place respectively in the New Mexico Associated Press Newspaper Editors Contest in 2002.
     



Books

Camp Lone Star by Marie Wadsworth
Summer doesn't get much hotter than this! In this first book in the Malan and Lathal romance novel series, Lathal Harvey and Malan Hamel go to work at a summer camp in Lake Worth, Texas. Lathal and Malan have secretly liked each other for a while now and liked to be romantically involved, but there are some complications. Will this be a summer of love for Malan and Lathal? ...
  

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Let Her Dream by Marie Wadsworth
Now available at Mystic East Publishing. The book costs $14 and CDs are $16.95....
  

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Bryce by Marie Wadsworth
Life isn't fair! That's exactly how this young man, Bryce Grayson, the prince of Willias, a kingdom in the countryside of England known for the true love its rulers - his parents - share, feels about his lot in life during the time of Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare and Galileo. Striken with a mysterious, reoccuring illness since birth, Bryce would give anything to lead a normal life, where he can fo...
  

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Short Stories

Trick or Treat?
 by Marie Wadsworth
The ending of this romance thriller is a little bit unbelievable. One day I'll revise it and make it better. ...


Just Call Me Son
 by Marie Wadsworth
This was a fictional story based on a newspaper article I wrote about how gas prices had caused an increase in enrollment in online classes....


Rocket vs. Lucky
 by Marie Wadsworth
This is a flash fiction piece. It was hard for me to write....


SWFF: Last of the Jedi Episode 1
 by Marie Wadsworth
Luke Skywalker is disturbed by a vision....


FF: Why Can't I Find a Super Man? -- No. 1
 by Marie Wadsworth
Lois Lane, The Daily Planet's star reporter, interviews Gotham City playboy and philanthropist Bruce Wayne....


FF: Why Can't I Find a Super Man? -- No. 2
 by Marie Wadsworth
In this episode, Lois Lane and her intended share a quite moment in his penthouse before attending the Wayne Foundation's charity ball....


Trapped By Addiction #2
 by Marie Wadsworth
Sam learns an awful truth about her former classmate, Brian Miller....


Trapped by Addiction #1
 by Marie Wadsworth
Samantha Moore, a morning show disc jockey for a Savannah, Georgia, radio station, tells her listeners she doesn't plan on going to her class reunion. When she and her morning show co-host, Melanie S...


Wings of Fire
 by Marie Wadsworth
This is a patriotic and romantic tale set in the West prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor that sent the United States into World War II. Army Air Corps pilot Lt. Zane Nolen and American female aviato...


The Asylum
 by Marie Wadsworth
This story is based on a dream I had a couple weeks ago. It is my first stab at writing horror, and it is in response to a Halloween challenge at another Web site where I post. Samuel Beckett is a...


Expatriate
 by Marie Wadsworth
This romantic tale told from the hero's point of view takes place outside Paris in 1999. Well-known American actor Renine Feraday is hired to play the lead role in a movie about one of well-known Ame...


Romance's Destiny at Marnia
 by Marie Wadsworth
Prequel to my romance novel "Bryce." Available in a compilation "Fear Itself" at www.nospine.com Read and download this manuscript at www.rosedog.com: Manuscript ID: 7652852...


Forbidden Love
 by Marie Wadsworth
This story contains several firsts for me. It's written in soap opera style and it deals with cheating. I named one of my characters Brandon in tribute of Marlan Brando who recently died. So ever...



Poetry

Blessings
 by Marie Wadsworth


Thunderbird
 by Marie Wadsworth


Mirage
 by Marie Wadsworth


Nature Abounds
 by Marie Wadsworth


Rune Tree
 by Marie Wadsworth


Night Burns
 by Marie Wadsworth
Won second place for poetry in college literary journal contest and will be published in college's literary journal "Southwest Creations" this summer....


Fifty Years Ago
 by Marie Wadsworth
For my aunt and uncle, Pat and Tim Crosby, on their 50th wedding anniversary....


Commencement
 by Marie Wadsworth


To Catch Butterflies
 by Marie Wadsworth


Just You and I
 by Marie Wadsworth
For all lovers, especially my youngest sister, Mary, and her fiance, Adam. They will marry March 28....


Valkerie
 by Marie Wadsworth


Winter Storm
 by Marie Wadsworth


Lost Cemetery
 by Marie Wadsworth


Ghost Town Station
 by Marie Wadsworth


Once A Butterfly
 by Marie Wadsworth


Angel of Roses
 by Marie Wadsworth


Make Love By Moonlight
 by Marie Wadsworth


Black Swan Dance
 by Marie Wadsworth
Through the mists Of night She slips Appearing as she Always does as The ballerina princess. As the haunting symphony Plays Silently over and over In her mind,

Sleepy Kiss
 by Marie Wadsworth


Ghost of the Garden
 by Marie Wadsworth


Crying Crow
 by Marie Wadsworth


God's Canvas
 by Marie Wadsworth


Poets and Madmen
 by Marie Wadsworth
Series poem, "Poets and Prophets"...


Poets and Prophets
 by Marie Wadsworth
Series poem, sequel "Poets and Madmen."...


A Rose For a Rose
 by Marie Wadsworth



Articles

NMJC graduation: Sibling success story
 by Marie Wadsworth
My last Associated Press article of my journalistic career. Published May 9, 2009. Also Published in national magazine, Community College Weekly....


Former Lovington Schools superintendent inducted into NMAA hall of fame
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the News-Sun on March 2008....


Don Haskins: A Piece of Reporter's Past Dies
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published as a column in the Hobbs News-Sun on Sept. 9, 2008....


Rising Gas Prices Cause Increase in Online Enrollment
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published Hobbs News-Sun on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 Published in Hobbs News-Sun on Sept. 13 and published by Associated Press. ...


Mexican native achieves goal of U.S. citizenship
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News Sun around Sept. 10 and published by Associated Press....


Drawing animated figures second nature for student
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published before the "Clone Wars" movie in the Hobbs News-Sun and published by Associated Press....


Dean doubles as climbing and rappelling teacher
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News-Sun on April 6, 2008, and published by Associated Press. ...


Bullying: Hobbs Schools consider anti-bullying policy
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News-Sun on Nov. 4, 2007, and published by the Associated Press in newspapers throughout the United States....


Man captured in 26-hour standoff
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News-Sun Feb. 9, 2006, and by Associated Press. Won third place in the spot news category in the 2006 New Mexico Associated Press Newspaper Editors Contest....


Spinning
 by Marie Wadsworth
My latest Associated Press article in 2006; it may soon be my last as there will be a new lifestyles reporter in the future. I will still be in the newsroom, working as the education reporter. Publish...


Navajo jewelry
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News-Sun Dec. 3, 2006, and by the Associated Press. ...


Pilot still soaring high at 83
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published June 5 on the front page of the Hobbs News-Sun and published by Associated Press....


Branding: Just another part of the cowboy lifestyle
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published May 21 in the Hobbs News-Sun and also published by the Associated Press....


Postmark collection brings history to life
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News-Sun in March 2005. Won third place in the features category in the 2005 New Mexico Associated Press Newspaper Editors Contest. ...


Life of a cowboy
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the News-Sun on Feb. 8, 2006, and by Associated Press. ...


Remembering Dad
 by Marie Wadsworth
This is an essay I wrote on the writer's aptitude test sent to me by Long Ridge Writers Group. I was accepted to take their program but I couldn't afford it. Of course, this is in tribute to my fath...


Good shootin' Tex! Cowboy action shooting
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News-Sun and by Associated Press in 2006....


Candlemaking: Making art from scratch
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News-Sun on Jan. 8, 2006...


From hell to heaven: Hurricane Katrina evacuee shares her story
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News-Sun in September 2005. Published nationally by Associated Press....


Fighting Domestic Violence
 by Marie Wadsworth
Published in the Hobbs News-Sun March 2005....



News

Young Graduates Feature Published in National Magazine
 by Marie Wadsworth
This feature was published in the Hobbs News-Sun May 9 and was picked up by Associated Press. ...


Poem Night Burns wins prize, publication
 by Marie Wadsworth
FYI...


Matters of the Heart in process of being reworked
 by Marie Wadsworth
Announcement...


Links

Camp Lone Star and Bryce
Come visit and sign my guestbook!


Writer's Warehouse
Come join this new writer's forum/group on the Web!

Let Her Dream
This Web site promotes my poetry anthology "Let Her Dream" that was e-published by Mystic East Publishing this month. The e-book is now available!!! Please come visit and sign my guestbook and buy my e-book!

Mystic East-Let Her Dream
Now available at Mystic East Publishing. Cost is $14 and CDs are $16.95.


Additional information

Member of Lea County Commission for the Arts and a honorary member of Llano Estacado Art Association. Lifetime member of Girl Scouts of America.

 
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