About

Simply Marquessa

Marquessa is a storyteller.

A voracious reader at an early age, she discovered that the pages of a novel could be a sweet escape into exciting worlds beyond her own. Little House on The Prairie, Nancy Drew and Sweet Valley High were just a few of her favorite books growing up. It was only when she fell in love with “I Know Why The Caged Birds” that she realized just how hungry she was for characters who looked more like her and narratives closer to what she could relate.

She quickly realized that she had the power to write the kinds of characters she wanted to see more of, like the characters in “How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents“, “Coffee Will Make You Black” and “The Joy Luck Club” and many others books that influenced her preference for novels with more of a cultural component.

Marquessa’s goals are three-fold:

To write for pleasure/joy. Her secret childhood dream of becoming a famous author has morphed into simply wanting to write for pleasure.

To write the kind of contemporary fiction she loves to read, giving a voice to characters who look more like her and with storylines that could possibly happen in real life.

To share her work with readers who enjoy her storytelling.

When Marquessa is not busy dealing with a daily dose of life and work, she can be found curled up on her couch brainstorming a cliffhanger while chilling to one of her 70’s or 80’s playlists or thinking about her next trip to the beach.

If you would like to keep up with her updates, sign up for her newsletter here. However the best place to reach out to Marquessa is on this blog via the Contact Page. She also recently started a Substack account (February 2025) that she will eventually complement leverage alongside this blog space.

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  4. Hi Marquessa,

    Nearly two years ago, when you were still hosting your Song Lyrics Sunday, I submitted a story in response called “The Demon in the Mask.” I just wanted to thank you because a much more polished version is being published in late September/early October by Cloaked Press in an anthology called “Fall into Fantasy 2019:” https://poweredbyrobots.com/2019/09/11/my-short-story-the-demon-in-the-mask-will-appear-in-the-cloaked-press-anthology-fall-into-fantasy-2019/

    I thought you’d like to know that at least one story you inspired went on to see a reality within the pages of a book. I appreciate what you did for a lot of us when we participated in your challenges.

    Cheers,

    James

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