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Meet Local Author Marilyn D. Brown

If not at 65, THEN when?

After having been told in her thirties that big publishing houses wanted already published writers and in her sixties that they wanted new cutting-edge writers, at an age when people used to retire Marilyn Brown formed her own publishing company, setting a goal of bringing out a book a year for ten years; and, so far, White Canoe Productions has exceeded that goal.  Some say, “Wow, you just crank them out,” but she says forty years of writing is hardly cranking. Also a painter, she has seen quite a bit of her work run away; but some of it has found a permanent home on her book covers.

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