marta chausée
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | author/artist/life coach/counselor, independent forensic document examiner |
| Location | Southern California, United States |
| Introduction | My name is Marta and my first full-length mystery, Murder's Last Resort, winner of the 2011 Dark Oak Mystery Contest, is available in paperback and on Kindle on Amazon.com. My white bicycle and I divide our time between Metro DC and Playa del Rey, California. Yes, that's right. You probably don't want to hear about my personal life, but there it is. I'm bi-coastal. I once crossed the Sahara in a Jeep with three friends and fifteen crazed Moroccans. I have logged many moons in Wiesbaden and Berlin, I have lived in Spain, Orlando, Chicago and many parts of L.A. I once lived in a magical treehouse in wee charming Claremont, surrounded by people I loved-- writers, poets and artists. But the place I am most comfortable living is inside my head. I shouldn't enter some neighborhoods alone-- they are dangerous-- but I do so at my own peril. My short stories, memoir pieces and poetry, some of which are prize- and award-winning, have been published in various venues. Wow. Impressive. Give me a Brownie button. |
| Interests | art, antiques, architecture, cultural history, dancing, bicycling, snow skiing, reading, writing, pomegranates, arcane Ming dynasty expository scriptures, exquisite pastries. |
| Favorite Movies | Adaptation and anything Charlie Kaufmann, Gone with the Wind, Young Frankenstein, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Some Like it Hot. And, this may sound trite, but ya gotta love the classics-- Casablanca (which I first saw in 2010). Muckrakers like: Food, Inc., Inside Job, Supersize Me. |
| Favorite Music | broad spectrum of musical loves-- Django Reinhart and gypsy jazz, zydeco, Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin, Van the Man Morrison, Leon Russell, Squeeze, The Clash, Regina Spektor, Cat Edmundson, John Meyer, Brooks Benton, Jr. Walker, all Motown, classical, especially Beethoven, Mozart, Albinoni. |
| Favorite Books | Alice in Wonderland, anything Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Maya Angelou, Anne Lamott, give me some Kinky Friedman when I have time to relax and enjoy. |
Describe the sound of a moist waffle falling onto a hot griddle.
Slap, sizzle-- the thick, rich, frothy dough hits the black-hot griddle, oozing toward the corners. The patterned lid is shut. The waiting begins as steam slips from the edges of the wafflemaker. Combined with the aroma of bacon frying in a nearby pan and the butter and maple syrup on the table, the scene is as homey as your fuzzy slippers. Your mouth waters. In five, the feast begins.