Back story

I was born in Rockhampton, Queensland in the 1950s, the youngest of four children and raised on a cattle property.

   For more than twenty years, I was involved in the magazine publishing industry as a senior executive. Having now given up full time magazine work, I am devoting my time to my writing career, with an emphasis on writing books to entertain women readers.

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   My stories draw heavily on my early experiences of country life and then, later, my experience of living in Sydney, which is my favourite Australian city.

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  I value my membership of the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). I've completed a Year of the Novel course with QWC and a short fiction writing course with noted literary agency Curtis Brown.

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   I enjoy hearing feedback from readers. You can email be via this link jmarymasters1@gmail.com

   I hope you enjoy reading the books I have written. If you do, please tell your friends. I write simply to entertain.

   And I write the Belleville books because I love the characters I've created. I hope you do too.​​

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