Mary Daheim lives in Seattle, Washington and writes two series set in and around the Pacific Northwest.
Mary Daheim lives in Seattle, Washington and writes two series set in and around the Pacific Northwest.
From spring 1996 is the seventh in the Alpine series, The Alpine
Gamble. Click here to read an excerpt.
Coming in October is Nutty as a Fruitcake,
the tenth in the Bed and Breakfast series. Click here to read an excerpt.
Biography
Before there was a Bed & Breakfast, before there
was an Alpine Advocate, before there was major league baseball
in Seattle, there was the Pacific Coast League and a little girl
who wanted to be a sports reporter. People told her NO. Girls-women-couldn't
be baseball beat reporters. 'Why?" she asked her granny,
an ardent Seattle Rainiers fan. "Because," Granny replied
wisely, "those boys don't want you to see them with their
clothes off."
That made some sense to the little girl who decided
to write books instead. But not about baseball. Not yet. Instead,
she wrote historical romances, featuring men-and women-with their
clothes off. But after seven books, she wasn't entirely happy
with the genre. She was a mystery reader, not a romance fan. So
she wrote about what she knew (besides baseball), and borrowed
some of her relatives as characters because they were ... characters.
To her amazement and delight, readers liked what would become
known as the B&B series from Avon. So, she figured, why not
write about something else she knew, which was newspaper reporting
(but not covering a baseball beat), and the long-ago mill town
of Alpine where her family had lived before she was born (yes,
those same characters who populate the B&B books). Thus, Alpine
was revived, and the Ballantine series was launched.
The little girl hasn't been little or a girl for
many years. But she still loves baseball, and one of these days...
Books (by series):
The Bed & Breakfast series from Avon Books
The Alpine series from Ballantine
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