“…And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire–clearly I’m not needed,
yet I feel myself turning into something of inexplicable value.”
from The Buddah’s Last Instruction
by Mary Oliver
Once a globetrotting corporate marketing executive, Marcia Breece now lives in a tiny, quiet cottage on Hood Canal, near Port Gamble, Washington where she enjoys the tranquility and solitude she needs to design, and write. Nearby Hood Canal beach provides daily photo opportunities, whether it’s the foggy beach at sunrise, bald eagles drifting on the wind, or moon snails excavating the sand at low tide. “My wanderlust has pasted. This is what I need, now.”
Marcia designs web sites and marketing materials for independently published authors through her business, Book Marketing Service. Experience promoting her own book guided her to offering her skills to this niche market. “It’s a typical grass roots story,” says Marcia. “An author friend asked me to design his web site, and media kit, then his friend did the same. soon I had a group of author clients that needed help with marketing. I’m convinced that if you stay open, what you love to do will find its way to you. I truly have a Cottage Industry.”
Marcia’s passion for photography started at the age of five when she first held her granddad’s “Kodak.” His collection of black and white images from the old west still kindle her creativity. One of those images inspired the novel she’s working on. “I went kicking and screaming into digital photography in 2005,” she says, “but now I love digital media.”
Writing became her outlet in the late 1970s when she began journaling. In the 1990s she wrote articles for technical magazines but longed to write what was in her heart. Meanwhile, she realized she couldn’t breath deep enough and still show up at the office. A line from Mary Oliver’s Poem said it all, “…are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?” (Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?) In 2005 she left the corporate world to buy a llama ranch, where she ran a Bed and Breakfast for 5 years. Although her first book Finding This Place, a memoir, was published by Book Publishers Network in 2009, she found that farm chores and inn keeping left little time for writing. In 2011, she sold the farm, and moved to the cottage where she treasures the freedom to live an authentic life.
Through Grandma’s Glasses, expected to release in 2012.
