by Marian Exall | Nov 13, 2024 | Musings
What started as a writing exercise during the COVID lockdown culminates in the release of my new mystery Six Degrees of Death on Monday, November 25. COVID Creativity Challenge The uncertainty and isolation that beset us in 2020 made writing difficult for me. Sure, I... by Marian Exall | Sep 23, 2024 | Musings
Daughters of Riga, my novel about World War II Latvia, and the long shadow that the war cast over two young women who survived it, was the story I felt compelled to write. Since its release last February, I have been so gratified with how the novel has resonated with... 
by Marian Exall | Jun 9, 2024 | Musings
E-book free on Amazon “It is my painful duty to inform you that E.R. Elgin, Esq., Lieutenant and Instructor of Musketry, 42nd Royal Highlanders, died of Cholera on Sunday the 28th of July at one o’clock A.M.” So began the letter from a military chaplain in Agra,... 
by Marian Exall | Apr 27, 2024 | Musings
“My father never spoke about the war.” As I researched the World War II background for Daughters of Riga, I heard this statement several times: from the daughter of one of the U.S. soldiers who liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; from an English friend... 
by Marian Exall | Mar 25, 2024 | Musings
“The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” Albert Einstein. When I first arrived in the US (Atlanta) and introduced myself to strangers, I often received the response, “Marian the Librarian?” Unfamiliar with The Music Man show... 
by Marian Exall | Feb 24, 2024 | Musings
February 28: Publication Day! When, last summer, the Wild Rose Press told me Daughters of Riga would be released on February 28, 2024, the date seemed impossibly distant. Until I remembered how long it had been since this writing journey began: I completed the first...
