Marilyn Morris Email & Phone Number

Although she was raised as a Military Brat, Marilyn Celeste Morris was born in her grandfather’s house in Toronto, Texas, a small Southern Pacific Railroad Section six miles west of Alpine. Schooling consisted of Dependents’ Schools while overseas, in Seoul Korea, 1946-47 and Linz, Austria (1949-1952) and various schools stateside. A rarity for a Military Brat, she was fortunate enough to have attended all three high school years and graduated in Lawton OK. She received an AAS Degree in Mental Health in 1995.Morris began her writing career as a guest columnist in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and for ten years wrote a weekly humor/human interest column for a weekly newspaper in the Fort Worth TX area. She recently compiled a selection in My Ashes of Dead Lovers Garage Sale –And Other Stories from a Single Woman of a Certain Age. Her first novel, Sabbath’s Room, a supernatural murder mystery, was closely followed by Once a Brat, part travelogue, part therapy session, relating her world-wide travels with her army officer father during the Post WWII years. She then wrote Diagnosis: Lupus: The Intimate Journal of a Lupus Patient, a collection of personal journal entries about her struggles with SLE. An outgrowth of her Once a Brat book is the novel, The Women of Camp Sobingo, where four women meet aboard a ship bound for a remote military compound outside Seoul, Korea, immediately following the end of WWII. They form a bond that will sustain them through numerous hardships, and at a reunion twenty-five years later, secrets and sorrows are at last revealed. Her third novel, Forces of Nature, followed. She has taught creative writing at Tarrant County College, Fort Worth TX, survived numerous book signings and speaking engagements; and is experienced in interviewing on both radio and television.Specialties: Editing/proofreading

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  Editor

  Graceworks Productions

  Jan 2001 - Present

  I am a freelance editor/proofreader with reasonable rates and an attention to detail. I provide a separate document explaining to the client why changes were made to the original ms. and suggestions for improvement.

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  Associates Degree, Mental Health