Marianne Stillings

Long ago and far away in a fairytale land called
California, Marianne Stillings's mother read her the Little
Golden Book of The Ugly Duckling. She cried so hard at how
badly the duckling was treated her mother frantically
skipped ahead to calm her and prove all would end well. The
book has been lost over the years, but Marianne's love of
reading and happy endings has remained. Now a resident of
Washington State, when not writing happy endings of her
own, she works as a tech writer for The Boeing Company, and
spends time with her husband Mike, daughters Rebecca and
Katie, and Dorothy the Wonder Dog.