Marcia Preston

Marcia Preston's first novels were mysteries featuring the daughter of a Gypsy mother and a redneck father. One of these (Song of the Bones) won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for suspense fiction.

For twenty years, Marcia edited and published ByLine, a national magazine for freelance writers. She freelanced for a long list of national magazines before becoming a full-time novelist. She now writes fiction centered on issues important to families and women readers. The Butterfly House hit #1 on the Heatseekers bestseller list in England and sold widely in Europe.

Marcia is an experienced speaker for writers' conferences, libraries, book clubs and civic groups. She is a past-president and Honorary Life Member of the statewide Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc.

She lives beside a creek in central Oklahoma, where she feeds the birds and dodges tornadoes. She keeps a life list of identified bird species and is an amateur lepidopterist.