Location: United States
Member Since:
Oct. 04, 2016
Valerie Marcley
Biography
Being called a “free spirit” brings an obligation to deliver! It’s just been life for me. As a jill-of-all single mother, I did whatever was needed and worked some wacky jobs. One great one was the privilege to work with a legendary jazz promoter producing concerts and festivals and boy, I learned a lot. When my son went off to college, I sailed off on boats, working as professional crew on private yachts in the Caribbean - interesting owners, guests and paradise.
Turning happily to writing I find my sailing days and other travels offer a mine of experiences and fabulous characters, thus parts of my books are often based on true events and real people (hmmm). Recently I retired from producing performance festivals in the historic working seaport of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where I now live.
Turning happily to writing I find my sailing days and other travels offer a mine of experiences and fabulous characters, thus parts of my books are often based on true events and real people (hmmm). Recently I retired from producing performance festivals in the historic working seaport of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where I now live.
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Books
The Big Deep - Caribbean Noir
by Valerie Marcley
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 38,730.
Language:
English.
Published: January 24, 2019
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Noir - dark, mysterious. The Caribbean - a perfect paradise that hides sordid secrets. I’ve combined the two to deliver enigmatic Phillip Blackwell to you. An exile, he finds corruption, conundrums and evil as he makes sails down the Antilles chain. A decent man recruited by those less so to solve what they can not. In the Big Deep, Blackwell is recruited to find a missing person and finds murder.
Alizé - A Caribbean Love Story
by Valerie Marcley
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 79,460.
Language:
English.
Published: February 3, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » General
Invitation to a voyage - Sand Chambers was one of the few women captains in the 1980s Caribbean. Does she live the life in paradise we all dream of aboard her exquisite sloop Alizé? For cryptic reasons she must be carefully guarded until a talented young man bursts into and enriches her life. They live a romantic and exclusive existence until Sand alters their lives forever.