Author profile of - Mary Elizabeth Fricke on Lit Linc

Mary Elizabeth Fricke has lived her entire life within five miles of the Missouri River. She and her husband of 40 years have lived 38 of those years on a farm that has been consistently owned and operated by his family for five generations. They have two grown sons married to wonderful women and two beautiful grandchildren.

A graduate of the Writer's Institute of America and a member of the Heartland Writers Guild, she has published a number of articles in various forums and magazines. She is also a prolific ghostwriter.

Her stories, based in rural mid-western areas, concern the unique but quickly vanishing way of life on the family farm as well as other mysterious intricacies that evolve life from generation to generation. Romance is her preferred genre.

Bluebird of Happiness

Mary Elizabeth Fricke

How did you become an author and get published? Share your experience.
I was telling stories before I could write them down. In school, I always excelled in classes where I could read and/or write assignments. I've kept a journal most of my life and I always knew one day I would write 'a book'. That didn't happen until I was twenty-one and getting published was a long, hard rocky road. Sweet Pea was the second book-length manuscript I wrote. An editor told me I had natural talent but I needed professional training. So I studied and it was still more than ten years before I managed to get a poem published (Lady on the Farm, Farm and Ranch Magazine) and an article (Unpublished Does Not Mean Unwritten, Housewife Writers Forum). My autobiography, Dino, Godzilla and...
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Bluebird of Happiness

Mary Elizabeth Fricke