Mara Bateman

Author

Mara's "lyrical and evocative" storytelling sweeps you away into worlds rich with sensory experience, humor, high adventure and imperfect heros who steal your heart.

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ABOUT MARA

Mara has been playing pretend for as long as she can remember. Writing stories was just the natural evolution.

Mara writes speculative fiction, fantasy and poetry. Her work explores the joys and discomforts of humanhood and the sacred minutiae of the natural world.

Mara lives in Boise, Idaho where she works professionally as an acupuncturist at a local nonprofit clinic and writes whenever she can. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared in several publications, and she is the creator of This Poem Is For You: Horoscopic Poetry by an Unlicensed Bystander, a weekly poetry newsletter.

When she isn't writing or poking people with tiny needles for their own good, she can be found on a river, up a mountain, or curled up with her two beloved cats and an art project.

PROJECTS

Mara's "lyrical and evocative" storytelling sweeps you away into worlds rich with sensory experience, humor, high adventure and imperfect heros who steal your heart.

THE RIVER ONLY ASKS FOR ONE THING

Adult Fantasy - Querying

In an Eden-like river valley surrounded by desolation, a young woman sets off to rescue her first love from her fate as a human sacrifice, discovering along the way that everything she believes about her home may be an intricate and dangerous lie.

BLOOD IS BITTER WATER

Adult Fantasy - Drafting

In this follow up to THE RIVER ONLY ASK FOR ONE THING Dorian seems to destroy everything she touches. Redemption comes in the form of a dangerous new friend with secrets of his own and a quest that will lead her into the wilderness, both beyond the walls of her homeland and in her own heart.

THE SKY IS FULL OF MICHAEL

Adult Fantasy - Drafting

A lonesome woman befriends a monster and is draw into a secret world of warring magicians where she must decide how far she is really willing to go for love.