Friendship is a tenuous thing when you are thirteen and everything in your life is changing, especially your best friend. Terrified that she will lose Laura to the influence of Angie who is rich, beautiful, and the most popular girl in school, Debbie Webly will do almost anything to hang on to Laura. When her efforts backfire, Debbie finds out that true friendship is based on much more than looks or popularity.
A diverse writer of columns, feature stores, short fiction, novels, screenplays and stage plays, Maryann Miller has won numerous awards including being a semi-finalist at the Sundance Institute for her screenplay, A Question Of Honor. She has also received the Page Edwards Short Story Award for "Maybe Someday" which is one of the stories in her new short story collection "The Wisdom of Ages" which was just released from Books We Love Publishing Partners.
Her work has appeared in regional and national publications, and the Rosen Publishing Group in New York published her non-fiction books for teens, including the award-winning "Coping with Weapons and Violence In School and On Your Streets". Her suspense novel "One Small Victory" is available as an e-book and in trade paperback, as is her book for tweens, "Friends Forever," also from Books We Love Publishing Partners. "Open Season", the first book in a new mystery series is available in hardback, and the second in the series will release in 2012. "Play It Again, Sam" is a romance from Uncial Press and is available as an e-book.
Miller lives on some acreage in the beautiful Piney Woods of East Texas with her husband, one horse, two goats, two dogs, and four cats. She has been writing all her life and plans to die at her computer.
