About Marie

Looking for the expertise of a professional writer whose experience runs the gamut from newspaper correspondent to published nonfiction author?

Marie Bartlett has more than 25 years experience in the rough-and-tumble world of freelance writing. For more than a decade she made a living as a fulltime writer producing articles for newspapers and magazines, serving as a public relations consultant and as a contractor for corporate communications.

Today, she is the author of four nonfiction books, and holds a master’s degree in adult education.

Once a writer, always a writer, says Marie.
“I think creative types MUST write in spite of the odds, the inevitable rejections, and all the obstacles to success. We write in spite of ourselves for it is inherent in our nature. What I have to share with writers are the things I wish someone had shared with me when I began my writing career – all those “tips and tricks” of the trade that would have made my career path easier."

Marie’s communication specialties include:

• Freelance writing services on a project-by-project basis
• Nonfiction one or two-day writing workshops for large or small groups
• Individualized coaching for beginners or professional writers
• Public relations services (brochures, newsletters, press releases, ad copy)
• Travel writing
• Critiquing services

Professional background:

Marie’s published work has appeared in:

• Good Housekeeping Magazine
• Lady’s Circle
• Seventeen
• American Language Review
• Points North
• National trade journals, national and regional newspapers, regional business and tourist publications
• Nonfiction books:
• Trooper Down: Life & Death on the Highway Patrol, Algonquin Press, reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books, foreword by James Kilpatrick, 1991     Reviews
• Flight for Life, a Pocket Books paperback original, 1993
• Gifts from Shane, iUniverse, foreword by Winston Groome, author of Forrest Gump, 2002
• Frontier Nursing Service: America’s First Rural Midwife School, McFarland Publishing, 2008

Personal History:

Born in Melbourne, Australia but reared in Virginia and western North Carolina, Marie spent a decade in state government as a magistrate before returning to school for her master’s degree. Following the death of her youngest son, Shane, in 1998, she found herself journaling as a way to deal with her grief. The result was Gifts from Shane, a memoir of the lessons learned from a remarkable human being.

Marie has two surviving sons, Brian, and Brett, and lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Read an excerpt from Gifts from Shane

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