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    The Widows’ Gallery 
    Today’s authbor interview is with Marilyn Baron.
    Why did you write this
    book?
    I love using art and art theft as themes in my books. I studied
    art history in Florence, Italy, in college where I fell in love with my favorite
    painting—The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli—which hangs in the Uffizi Gallery.
    So I decided to make that painting the centerpiece of my story. The cover art is
    also reminiscent of that painting. Last year, my husband and I took an anniversary
    cruise to the Mediterranean. All these things gelled and I decided to set part of
    my book in Florence, Italy, and on a cruise ship, before the main characters arrived
    in Lobster Cove, Maine, where the Lobster Cove series for The Wild Rose Press is
    set.
    What are your favorite
    genres to read?
    Literary fiction, women’s fiction and thrillers
    Who is your favorite character
    from fiction (not including your own)?
    Jamie Fraser in the Outlander series.
    What are you working on
    at the moment, and will see from you in coming months?
    On March 20, Killer Cruise, the third book in my Psychic Crystal
    Mystery Series, will be released from The Wild Rose Press. It also takes place on
    a cruise ship and one of the themes is art theft. It’s murder, mystery, and mayhem
    combined with high jinks on the high seas. The novel even features a vampire.
    TWB Press just released my fifth dark and humorous supernatural
    short story, The Files Death Forgot http://www.twbpress.com/thefilesdeathforgot.html
    The Grim Reaper with a failing memory, a craving for chocolate chip cookies and
    a penchant for old movies: Could this agent of death inadvertently save the world
    from mass annihilation??M
    My current work in progress is called Landlocked, where an inexperienced
    South Florida realtor with weather issues, tries to sell her widowed grandmother’s
    rural property on an isolated Western North Carolina mountaintop only to discover
    the tract is landlocked, and therefore, unsalable. The book features a missing artist,
    two romances and a serial killer.

    About the Book

    Title The Widows’ Gallery
    Genre Women’s Fiction/Romance
    Author Marilyn Baron
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
    Childless heiress Abigail Adams Longley and three other widows
    on a Mediterranean cruise bond over a Renaissance masterpiece in Florence, Italy,
    and find love, friendship and joy in their joint venture to open an art gallery
    at the Longley mansion in Lobster Cove, Maine.
    Since the death of her husband, Abigail has been lonely and drifting
    in a house that’s too big and a town that’s too small. When she literally runs into
    sexy widower and whale-watching excursion captain Tack Garrity on the dock, she’s
    entranced by his adorable five-year-old daughter.
    But will Tack, who has harbored a secret crush on Abigail for
    almost two decades, be able to capture her heart? A secret pact her husband made
    with Tack could either tear them apart or bring them closer together and change
    their lives forever.

    Buy This Book

    Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Widows-Gallery-Lobster-Cove-ebook/dp/B00S4CHGUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422995192&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Widows%27+Gallery
    Amazon (Print) http://www.amazon.com/Widows-Gallery-Marilyn-Baron/dp/1628307609/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1422995259&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Widows%27+Gallery+paperback
    Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-widows-gallery-marilyn-baron/1121178917?ean=2940150156319
    ARe https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thewidows039gallery-1734443-149.html

    About the Author

    Marilyn Baron
    Marilyn Baron is a corporate public relations consultant in Atlanta.
    She’s a member of Marketing For Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America and
    Georgia Romance Writers (GRW), recipient of the GRW 2009 Chapter Service Award and
    winner or finalist in writing awards in single title, suspense romance, novel with
    strong romantic elements and paranormal romance.
    Marilyn writes in a variety of genres, including: Humorous coming-of-middle-age
    women’s fiction (The Widows’ Gallery, Stones, and Significant Others); a psychic
    suspense series (Sixth Sense, Homecoming Homicides and the soon to be released Killer
    Cruise); and historical romantic thrillers (Under the Moon Gate and the prequel,
    Destiny: A Bermuda Love Story) for The Wild Rose Press; and dark and humorous supernatural
    short stories for TWB Press (A Choir of Angels, Follow an Angel, The Stand-In Bridegroom,
    Dead Mix and The Files Death Forgot).
    Marilyn is a member of the Roswell Reads Steering Committee and
    belongs to two book clubs. A native of Miami, Florida, Marilyn now lives in Roswell,
    Georgia, with her husband and they have two daughters. She graduated from The University
    of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism [Public
    Relations sequence] and a minor in Creative Writing.
    When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, going to movies,
    eating Italian food and traveling. She often sets her stories in places she’s visited,
    including Bermuda, Australia and Italy, where she spent six months studying in Florence
    during her senior year in college.

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