Today, literary thriller’s author interview with Mary Carroll Moore in the writers on their writing process series. Mary is the Amazon-bestselling and award-winning author of three novels: the PEN/Faulkner-nominated young adult novel Qualities of Light (2009), A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue, she published last year, and Last Bets which is the book we will be talking about today. Her writing has been featured on NPR and in the New York Times. She received her MFA from Goddard College and has taught throughout the US and abroad at various writing schools and universities since 1998. Her writing-craft book, Your Book Starts Here, won the New Hampshire Literary Awards “Reader’s Choice” award.

Before moving into fiction, she worked as a chef, a cooking school owner, a cookbook author, and a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her first cookbook won a Julia Child/IACP award. Over two hundred of her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in magazines and literary journals.

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