Marjorie Reynolds

Biography Marjorie Reynolds Marjorie Reynolds is an award-winning author, conference speaker, writing instructor and former movie-advertising executive. She taught Advanced Popular Fiction in the University of Washington Outreach Program in Seattle. William Morrow & Co. published her novels, "The Starlite Drive-in" and The Civil Wars Of Jonah Moran in hardcover, and Berkley released them in paperback. HarperCollins republished them in new paperbacks in 2011 and 2016. Her book on the writing...See more

Biography Marjorie Reynolds Marjorie Reynolds is an award-winning author, conference speaker, writing instructor and former movie-advertising executive. She taught Advanced Popular Fiction in the University of Washington Outreach Program in Seattle. William Morrow & Co. published her novels, "The Starlite Drive-in" and The Civil Wars Of Jonah Moran in hardcover, and Berkley released them in paperback. HarperCollins republished them in new paperbacks in 2011 and 2016. Her book on the writing craft, titled Take Your Novel To The Next Level: Advanced Techniques For The Fiction Writer, was published in March 2017. The American Library Association chose The Starlite Drive-In as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year for Young Adults. It also received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and was optioned for film. It was a Literary Guild alternate selection and a Reader's Digest Select Editions book. Rights were sold to seven countries. Ms. Reynolds's novels have received praise in The New York Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist as well as in numerous other newspapers and publications. The New York Times Book Review said, "Fusing Callie Anne's coming-of-age with a tragic love story, Marjorie Reynolds tidily explores the gap between fantasy and reality in her surely first novel (The Starlite Drive-In)." Publishers Weekly called Ms. Reynolds "a sure-handed storyteller" and said "...her prose really soars when she describes the timberland-a tent in the woods, the bottom of an overgrown lake, a drive over remote roads during a storm-capturing the almost magical spiritual connection between people and the land." She will teach a class at the 2017 Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. She also has been a speaker and workshop presenter for the Oregon Writers Colony, Willamette Writers in Oregon, South Carolina Writers Workshop, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Trade Show, Northwest Bookfest in Seattle, Los Angeles Book Fair, South Carolina Book Festival, Edmonds, Washington Write on the Sound Conference, Seattle Writers Association and Seattle Free Lances. She has spoken at various other literary arts events, and on radio programs in Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, and Bloomington, Indiana. She has been featured in newspapers throughout the country. See less