Marlis Manley Broadhead ~ Author

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Captivating!

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2024

This wonderful story was the kind of book that you can’t put down. I stayed up till four in the morning just to finish it! it’s just that kind of story. It captures your interest immediately and keeps you engaged for an amazing tale. I thoroughly enjoyed it!!As a {writer/editor/proofreader}, Marlis Manley Broadhead ~ Author is passionate about creating compelling content that engages and informs readers. With a strong work ethic and a commitment to excellence, Marlis Manley Broadhead ~ Author is dedicated to delivering high-quality work that exceeds your expectations.

A very emotional and uplifting story that is well worth reading.

5.0 out of 5 stars Reviewed in Australia on December 28, 2021Verified I'm glad I read this story as it was very well written and completely engaging. I wasn't sure, with the lead character being a 14 year old girl, if, as is so often the case, an adult maturity would be given instead. However, I found myself constantly saying, "that's exactly like what I imagine a14 year-old girl would do or say," the opposite of an adult! In saying that, this is a book for all ages, with some drama maybe only an adult would understand deeply but everyone could follow. I was swept along through tragedy and triumph, holding my breath in the drama and totally caught up in the emotional scenes. I would highly recommend it.

In the '80s, I mistook the horseradish for sour cream while filling my potato at my Air Force Academy graduation. My father saw the tears in my eyes and said, "Now don't act like you've never been anywhere..." Imagine my laughter reading the same quote in Marlis Manley's hilarious new book Is That Your Mother Calling? She's delivered Erma Bombeck for the new millennium!--Cam Torrens, award-winning author of Stable and False SummitLynette

Literary Bio

A former college instructor of all forms of written communication except Braille, Marlis has award-winning short stories and poems in literary magazines—including Kansas Quarterly, Mikrokosmos, Crosscurrents, and Kansas Women Writers. Her debut novel, TROPHY GIRL, published by Black Rose Writing, was awarded the William Faulkner second prize in 2018.

While still living in Wichita, her hometown, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing with distinction, she started a Learning Skills Center at the Vo-Tech School for refugees from the Viet Nam war—located on the campus of her alma mater, Wichita High School East.

In 1981, she and her family moved to Ames, Iowa, where she taught Business Communication at Iowa State University and worked as an editor for Better Homes and Garden’s building department.

Thanks to the development of fax machines, she took that writing job to northern California. There she also taught a variety of writing classes at College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg, founded the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference (still going), helped start a homeless shelter (a disaster eventually), helped form the Mendocino Coast Children’s Fund (still thriving), and steered Fort Bragg Center for the Arts—a public showcase for local artists, who outnumber regular folks out there five to one.

At home in Kansas, she lives with her husband and a small menagerie on a modest horse ranch where she is working on her third novel and fourth novels while her agent, Sandra Bond, is getting ready to submit her second novel--about a secretly homeless socialite--to publishers.