Mary Schultz

Biography

An incurable traveler, Mary Schultz has trekked Chile’s Atacama Desert and Easter Island to learn about the visual astronomy of ancient peoples. Together with her husband, she has explored the Mayan ruins of Mexico and Central America, lived and sailed aboard a 41 ft. ketch, and camped from Alaska to the Panama Canal. Mary Schultz’ personal essays have been anthologized: When A Life Mate Dies: Stories of Love, Loss and Healing (Healing with Words Series) by Susan Heinlein; her short fiction has appeared in Yokoi, the Bozeman, Montana occasional arts magazine, and the Mendocino Review to name a few. If you are familiar with Apple Computer, City of Hope, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, publications focused on software solutions for architecture, engineering and construction, and Total Gym, over decades you have likely read Mary’s award-winning advertising & marketing writing.

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Books

How Words Kindle Love a Short Story Collection
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 10,240. Language: English. Published: June 30, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Collections & Anthologies, Fiction » Romance » Workplace
In How Words Kindle Love, words initiate formidable personal change. A single mom takes a leap of faith, two lovers overcome the challenge of an old flame, a woman who straddles borders encounters a changed fate, a woman breaking new ground enters a portal to a new beginning, and old friends, tested by life, meet the moment head on. Four poems speak to four aspects of love.
El Dorado Bay
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 39,450. Language: English. Published: October 27, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Themes & motifs » Spiritual & metaphysical, Fiction » Romance » Historical » 20th Century
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
David Olguin, with his dicey past and chef's talent, longs for his baby son. Unable to live free in the U.S., he melds into small-town coastal Mexico to start a better life. When the wreckage of his past and the promise of his future collide—a beauty with her own dark past, his selfish first love and their baby, honor and love square off. David's choice surprises, and fireworks fill El Dorado Bay.
A Way West, R. P. McAlister Family History and Genealogy
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 61,880. Language: English. Published: October 9, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » American, Nonfiction » History » Genealogy
(4.00 from 1 review)
A Way West, R.P. McAlister Family History and Genealogy outlines the ancestral links to R. P. McAlister and Minnie Gay Humble McAlister. From their origins in Prussia, Switzerland and Britain to the Mayflower passage, the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War, the families shared a direction. They were westward bound in times of upheaval, growth and change.
Sea Cliff 104
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 64,460. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Western, Fiction » Romance » Workplace
(4.25 from 4 reviews)
Single interior designer, Cass Brooks, works to forget her ex sham marriage by avoiding romance. Project developer Bud Griffith has a world of love to give, but he’s mired in his past. Cass’s Montana ranch parents wrangle to get the two together. Bud’s ex-wife has a bankroll of reasons to keep them apart. Love, like the Sea Cliff project, grows only when the two surrender to all obstacles.
The Last Skywatchers
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 158,610. Language: English. Published: January 29, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier, Fiction » Adventure » Action
From the author of Sea Cliff 104, The Last Skywatchers steals into the lost world of early California where the Skywatcher, Keeper of the Calendar, holds the power of life and death, health and disease, plenty and want. Three generations of Skywatchers, each in their own way, meet the sweeping challenges of the late 18th century and early 19th century West.

Mary Schultz's favorite authors on Smashwords

Smashwords book reviews by Mary Schultz

  • Flash of the Pen on April 20, 2015

    Debrah Strait unveils a delightful spectrum of voices and perspectives in these flashes of the pen. In "Businessman," the aging protagonist notes, "You can't tell by looking, but I used to be somebody around this town." In "The Attic," a curious child glimpses unknowingly at infidelity and, taking a child's logical course, seeks answers from precisely the wrong source. The humor is sly. The style crisp. What a great way to explore the author's range.