Marianne Delacourt

About

My word journey began when I was eight years old with a sweet Enid Blyton rip-off entitled ‘The Splendid Six’. My dear sister solemnly typed it for me on an old typewriter and made word substitutions all the way through.

At twenty my boyfriend and to-be husband gave me Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke to read. It opened a world of imagining that has seduced me ever since.

Science Fiction and writing didn’t coalesce, however, until my third son was born. It wasn’t that I had the time – more that I had the need. When my life was so very full of many things, it was missing ‘the’ thing.

Through the writing community I’ve made some of my closest friends, in the VISION writers group in Brisbane of which Cory Daniells and myself are founding members.