About the author
Marie's next book, Can-Can: A Kansas City Era of Bets, Babes, and Bombs, is well on its way and should be out later this summer. It’s the second in the four part memoir series and covers roughly the next five years of her life as she became intimately familiar with the Kansas City Mafia during the height of the 1970s mob wars.
She is also working on a book of experience titled, Living Above RSD/CRPS: Going Up With a Fight Against Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
Marie lives in Independence, Missouri, with her family and takes pleasure in her children and
grandchildren. She stays actively involved with her local church, exercising, gardening, reading and of course, writing.
She has three daughters, Cora, Angela, and Rashida, and one daughter-by-heart, Brandi. Three girls live nearby and Rashida Maroon Barber passed on to her new beginning after a car accident with a dear on Easter of 2006. There is a link to pictures of her and the family on Marie’s website - Fieldsawakened.com titled, "Our Sleeping Beauty."
Marie has traveled extensively living in or visiting every state in the country. Her occupations have been varied and are too many to list. To name a few - she began as an assembly line worker at Hallmark Cards at age l3, has been a go-go dancer and a professional seamstress, has owned an art gallery and is a prize winning artist, and owned a bed and breakfast for ten years. Most recently she drove an 18-wheeler over-the-road from coast to coast.
Travel is still a favorite past time, faith in God is the leading factor in her life, and romance remains a child-like wonder.
All that is Marie makes for a deep well from which to draw as she pursues her passion as an author.