Mary B. Sinclair

I'm a graduate of Roxbury Community College and UMass, Boston.

Although born in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, I've lived in Boston all my life. In the past, when I had the luxury of time, I've dabbled with publishing poetry in Anthologies (such as "Twilight University Press"). Which was a lot of fun and served a purpose. But after a while I figured why make the publisher of the Anthology rich. It was at that point I began to think about writing my own books. And I soon discovered that when writing becomes too much of an obsession, it destroys creativity and produces poor results.

In that situation, the writer sells him (or her) self in order to achieve fame. Which wasn't at all what I wanted. So I just took my time, thumbed my nose at the publishing "establishment" and wrote to please myself. I don't like traditional publishing companies anyway. They want to "red pencil" everything to ensure conformity to the Elitist mainstream standard, reducing the writer to a mere "mouthpiece."

It's impossible to get your foot in the door unless you say exactly what they want to hear. From my point of view, that destroys the whole point of writing in the first place: to rock the boat, defy convention, make the world a better place and, above all, tell the truth. (And there always IS, always WAS and always WILL BE a high price to pay for that).

It's also in the very nature of a writer (at least my kind of a writer) to be a rebel and a non-conformist. (For all the right reasons of course). Themes I have chosen are in keeping with this: my Uncle Arnold's tragic accident falling off a horse while going for his Eagle Scout badge, my profound disagreement with the Catholic Church's birth control policy, how the therapy profession exploits people's slowly killing social problems while nothing ever changes(Mining the Sounds of Silence).

Another of my books, Phantom, tries to put into words the plight of a woman named Jill who, in order to receive her university degree, is forced to do something she cannot: write papers supporting a pull-out-all-the-stops homosexual agenda (including marriage and children) with which she is totally in disagreement. A homosexual agenda that has of course (under invisible pressure exerted by politically correct big money) been taken off the list of abnormalities by the American Psychiatric Association.

When I did finally agree to publish my books, it was because the true meaning of what I had to say was given precedence; my writing wasn't changed all around to fit a traditional, preconceived (or selling) agenda. In this way, I got my first break as a published author.

Of course my books are not selling for all the right reasons.

Anyone wishing to contact me can e-mail me at now02134@Yahoo.com