Sabbath's Room - Softcover

Marilyn Celeste Morris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591290368 ISBN 13: 9781591290360

Publisher: Publishamerica Inc, 2001

Synopsis

When New York writer, Joanna Elliott, flees her abusive husband to the Texas Hill Country, she and her six-year old son, Jason, unwittingly become a killer's prey. Despite Realtor Tommy Joe Greenleaf's warning that Wanda and Ralph Spencer had mysteriously disappeared from the remote farmhouse ten years earlier, Joanna moves in, and makes the sunroom into her office. Joanna adopts a cat from the local veterinarian, Sam Kelly, who tells her that Sabbath "had belonged to a witch." Immediately, unexplained events unfold: Joanna is locked overnight inside the storage shed, footprints appear under the sun room windows, and Jason's dog, Mournful, is found poisoned.

About this title

From the Author:

Sabbath's Room was a 20 year work-in-progress as I navigated my way through a divorce and entered the business world, to my subsequent retirement. Sabbath was my cat, my companion, and when she died at the age of 20+, I thought I would never get another cat. I did, and while she is quite different from Sabbath, Cleopatra has a charm all her own.

About the Author:

Marilyn Celeste Morris was born a militart brat and spent her early years in Seoul Korea, 1946-47 and Linz, Austria (1948-1950) and various schools stateside. A rarity for a Military Brat, she was fortunate enough to have attended all three high school years and graduated from Lawton Senior High School, Lawton OK. Further education was attained at Cameron State College, Lawton OK, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth TX, and North Texas State University, where she received an AAS Degree in Mental Health in 1995.

After studying under the late Grace Nies Fletcher, Marilyn began her writing career by being published as a guest columnist in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and for ten years wrote a weekly humor/human interest column for Suburban Newspapers in the Fort Worth TX area. Besides receiving a First Place award in the Nostalgia category at an Ozark Mountain Writers’ Conference, two "confession" stories were published (under pseudonyms) in the magazines "Jive" and "Bronze Thrills."

She has taught creative writing at Tarrant County College, and her first novel, Sabbath’s Room, was published in 2001.

Marilyn is a member of the National Association of Women Writers, Oklahoma Writers Federation, The Texas Coalition of Authors and was recently invited to join The National Society of Newspaper Columnists. She has also survived numerous book signings and speaking engagements, both for her books and as a survivor of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

When not writing, she enjoys searching for former classmates and true to her Brat heritage, she has a suitcase packed under the bed, ready to travel at a moment’s notice.

Marilyn may be reached at (817) 731-8753 or by email: rmebrat38@aol.com. Rates are negotiable.

About this edition

• Publisher: Publishamerica Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1591290368
• ISBN 13: 9781591290360
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152