Today we’d like to introduce you to Mary Kendall.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Who am I? I am a fiction writer with a particular niche in the historic and a penchant for the gothic.
I am the author of two published novels, The Spinster’s Fortune, a historical mystery, and Campbell’s Boy, coming of age historical fiction. I also have published short stories in dark fiction anthologies.
How did all this happen?
I grew up in historic old houses. They were haunted too. (Think things that went bump in the night and were rife with the unexplained.) My imagination didn’t stand a chance and caught on fire.
Later, I chose history as a career path with research as the job—which is really just solving mysteries. My fiction writing naturally extended from these beginnings and remains heavily influenced by the past. A bonus to the mix is the Celtic storytelling DNA coursing through my veins.
Where am I today?
I am writing! I take inspiration from the world around me, especially the mysterious bits.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The path to becoming a published author has not been an easy one. Instead of a straight line, I call it the zig-zag approach. It has been a path paved with hundreds of rejections and a lot of writer’s tears. That is all okay, though, because I learned so, so much along the way. This creative life is a constant and ongoing lesson in flexibility and keeping an open mind. And I’m going to keep on writing to figure all that out.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am most proud of achieving this lifelong dream after the age of fifty as a second (maybe a third, fourth or fifth?) act. Finding my creative groove at this point in life makes it all the sweeter.
What do you think about happiness?
Happiness is…
Waking up and getting another day to create something that makes me feel good and might possibly resonate with others.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.marykendallauthor.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mary.kendall.author/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.kendall.3152
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryLavin49
- Other: linktr.ee@marykendall
