Look and Listen

Biography

Mary Jean Kelso has written for many newspapers and magazines throughout her life. She also worked as an Editor for pharmaceutical magazines and as a Customer Services Representative for a Raytheon Company that produced rock crushers and other rock processing equipment. She started writing when her father acquired what would be called an antique typewriter and moved forward with newer and better equipment until electric typewriters came into being and got in on the beginning of word processors and computers. She is now using a modern computer to work for The Lahontan Valley News where she writes features and shoots photos for the Fallon, NV newspaper. All of Mary Jean's work is produced and transferred digitally. Thank you, Mary Jean Kelso MYSTERY IN VIRGINIA CITY - Great Basin Press A VIRGINIA CITY MYSTERY - MarKel Press ABDUCTED! - MarKel Press SIERRA SUMMER - MarKel Press GOODBYE, BODIE - MarKel Press THE HOMESTEADER (May 2005 Best Seller - Wings-Press.com) GOODBYE IS FOREVER (March 2006 - Wings-Press.com) BLUE COAT (April 2006 - Whiskeycreekpress.com) THE HOMESTEADER'S LEGACY - (February 2007 - Wings-Press.com) KAT'S CRADLE (October 2007 - Whiskeycreekpress.com) THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL (Fall 2007 - Guardian Angel Publishing) http://www.fallenangelreviews.com/2007/February/LindaL-TheHomesteadersLegacy.htm http://www.fallenangelreviews.com/2006/March/LindaL-BlueCoat.htm http://www.fallenangelreviews.com/May2005/Terri-AVirginiaCityMystery.htm http://www.fallenangelreviews.com/July2005/Johnna-GoodbyeBodie.htm http://www.fallenangelreviews.com/July2005/Terri-Abducted.htm http://www.fallenangelreviews.com/July2005/Terri-SierraSummer.htm http://www.fallenangelreviews.com/August2005/Jean-TheHomesteader.htm http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/TheHomesteader.htm http://www.romancejunkies.com/artman/publish/article_3854.shtml http://hometown.aol.com/mjkel/myhomepage/index.html http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007702020480

Inspiration

Mary Jean Kelso has always loved mysteries and read and collected Nancy Drew books as a youngster. The influence of this can be seen in her first novel Mystery in Virginia City which has recently been re-released by Wings-press.com as Goodbye Is Forever. Later she read Phyllis A. Whitney mysteries. These stories are intriguing and provide the reader with a trip to another country. Travel is one of Mary Jean's most treasured things to do. She has traveled by train when her father worked for the Southern Pacific and began RVing when her children were young. Many miles were logged over fourty years including times when she drove a 33 foot motorhome to camp and write or do research. This hobby also lead to her writing a column for Rving On and articles for Trailblazer Magazine. Still, her love of novels drove her desire to write about historic sites an situations that would provide mental trips for readers through the characters and provide bits of history that aren't "as boring as the history I had to learn in high school."