About the author:

 

Mary V. Williams, 46, Smithfield Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 1EN  01630 657055 

 

MARY WILLIAMS is a writer and poet who gained a late MA in Writing Studies at Edge Hill and was then commissioned to write two self-help books for Sheldon (SPCK). Trained in psychotherapy, she has worked in Mental Health and allied fields most of her life, having failed to keep order as a teacher and bored to tears by banking, her first two career choices.

 

Published in many poetry anthologies and winner of several prizes last year, Mary keeps tabs on the Liverpool poets she met while on her MA, and helps run a writers’ and poets’ group in her hometown. When not at her computer or kitchen sink, she can be found on her allotment or in the local flea market. Married with four adult sons, she lives in Shropshire in an inconvenient cottage full of paintings by friends and family members with her art-therapist husband.

 

 

At last!

THE POISON GARDEN OF DORELIA JONES

has been published by BeWrite books,  an e-book publisher of literary fiction. Hard copies are available from the author.

Described variously as a gothic romp, 'unsettling', and a thoroughly nasty tale about an albino witch, the man next door, poison and a one-eyed tomcat, THE POISON GARDEN OF DORELIA JONES explores dark areas of the human experience; areas better left undisturbed...

"Dorelia Jones" was really, really different from anything I have read for ages, perhaps ever, and I did really find it intriguing."

"Thanks again for a very enjoyable, gallows-humorous read."

Follow the links below to order:

For paperback: http://www.bewrite.net/merchant2/4.00/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B&Product_Code=978-1-906609-16-0&Category_Code=

For eBook: http://www.bewrite.net/merchant2/4.00/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B&Product_Code=978-1-906609-17-7&Category_Code

Amazon also stocks the book and if all else fails, contact me for a signed copy of the paperback

 

MARY'S SHOP WINDOW:

  Published by Sheldon. Copies available from the author. Recommended in the Dear Deirdre column. This is a guide for couples, not just the male partner.

  Published by Sheldon. Offering an inside view on relationships and what is really going on, before the decision to split up is finally made.

 A childhood remembered, with all its conflicting emotions, and a portrait of a family coping with deafness, separation and loss. Copies available from the author.

  A great anthology of horror stories published by Prime Publications Canada. ISBN 1894815386

 Sadly this is now out of print but there are still a few copies on amazon. I did enjoy writing this!

 

 

   PUBLICATIONS

·      Book reviews for counselling journal, letters and articles.

·      Make Up or Break Up published by Sheldon (SPCK) 2002

·      The Watcher Black Lace, 2003

·      Overcoming Impotence commissioned by Sheldon (SPCK), September 2003.

·      Poetry published in Flarestack, Lexicon, The People’s Poet, Decanto, Pulsar, Borderlines, Keele University Anthology, Three poetry prizes last year, two this year.

·      Unconfirmed Reports From Out There, a collection of short stories, published individually in Darkness Rising, Horror Masters, New Fiction, Dark Tales, Wild Child, Arabesque etc

·      Setting Fire to the Pampas Grass chosen by NE Arts for an audiotape for the blind.

·      Just Me And Marilyn won first prize for an opening chapter at Birmingham Library Undiscovered Authors competition.

·      Prize Pelt recently won the Dark Tales horror fiction prize and publication.

·      The Broilerhouse (renamed The Marsh People) won runner-up in Apprenticeships in Fiction 2007

·      In The Penguin Colony  published by Dark Tales 2008

·      Incident in a Service Station published by Global Publications 2008

·      Shropshire Poetry Prize 2008

·      Poetry published in Liverpool Poets Anthology

·      Instant Result  published by First Edition 2008

·     The Poison Garden of Dorelia Jones   a novel, published by BeWrite publishers 2009

·      River Dreams  novella and The Sleep of Reason novella, placed with agent.

Mary also recently won first prize for a short story Over My Dead Body which will be published in Dark Tales anthology.