Creative Leaps

Previous  Stabroek News article about this IF author and title:  "Where Fantasy Meets Reality" (2009 release of LEGEND OF THE SWAN CHILDREN This article is reprinted here with permission granted by the editor of Stabroek News, Guayana and the correspondent, Jairo Rodrigues. The photos are shared with permission from the author Maureen Marks-Mendonca. Stabroek News -  September 14, 2013 Maureen Marks-Mendonca : Drawn to Magical Realism Over the years Maureen Marks-Mendonca has decorated her name in a number of fields in the professional world. Writing fiction was not one of them until recent years and it was never her first love. She was keen with mathematics and loved to tell stories in the schoolyard but when it came to putting something down on paper, she preferred diagrams to words. Of course, once she entered the professional world it was very obvious that it would be impossible to do anything without writing. Maureen Marks-Mendonca (right) au