Mary Batten
My blogs
| Occupation | Writer |
|---|---|
| Introduction | I write magazine articles, television shows and nature/science books for children and adults. My newest children's book is SPIT: What's Cool About Drool (Firefly Books), about the amazing fluid in our mouth that helps us digest food, swallow, and talk. My most recent adult book is an e-Book, HOW TO HAVE SEX IF YOU'RE NOT HUMAN: INTIMATE JOURNEYS IN NATURAL HISTORY. My adult book, SEXUAL STRATEGIES: HOW FEMALES CHOOSE THEIR MATES, has an updated edition through the Authors Guild Back in Print program with iUniverse.com. |
| Favorite movies | Touch of Evil, Lone Star |
| Favorite music | Music composed by my husband, Ed Bland. |
| Favorite books | Elena Ferrante's beautifully written Neopolitan novels: My Beautiful Friend and The Story of A New Name, Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Flannery O'Connor's Collected Short Stories, Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection and by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy,Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding also by Hrdy, Homefront by Doris Gwaltney, Killer of Witches by Michael Farmer. I also enjoy Swedish author Stieg Larsson's books. |