Marian Exall

I enjoy the annual NYC Midnight short story competition. A few years ago, my assigned genre for the one-week, 2,500 word contest was "crime caper." Read all about it in my blog, and link to my entry, "Silver Beeches" here:
https://marianexall.com/silver-beeches-escaping-into-cozy/
(Bonus: a photo of my best friend Bo, the Bouvier)

Silver Beeches: escaping into cozy - Marian Exall Revisiting a sweet short story in an unfamiliar genre that I wrote for a competition a few years ago about some elderly lawbreakers.

"Sisu" is the Finnish word for resilience, grit, and determination in the face of adversity. The concept has its origins in Finnish resistance to the Soviet Union during World War II. Do we have the necessary sisu to resist the current political chaos? Read my blog.

Sisu Stories - Marian Exall Sisu, the Finnish word for resilience, shows up in wartime stories of everyday courage and in today's resistance to political cruelty.

Friend, writer, and illustrator Andrea Gabriel interviewed me about my new release LONERS and other things. Watch it on her blog.
https://andreagabriel.com/overall-interviews/interview-with-marian-exall/

Interview With Marian Exall - Andrea Gabriel Join me in this conversation with author Marian Exall, whose new mystery Loners, features a detective who refuses to believe the convenient narrative that the death she is sent to investigate is a su***de.