Introducing myself
Hi! I’m Marielle, and I have always had a deep passion for encouraging people to get back up and try again—no matter what life has dealt them. I write stories of found family, laughter, and delinquents with shaky pasts learning to own their mistakes and face the future with hope.
Why I write:
“Life is worth getting up and trying again.”
I’ve been writing seriously for 6+ years, and I’ve loved stories my entire life. I’m a student at The Author Conservatory, I have ten drafted stories under my belt, and I write about found family and redemption, with a good dose of crazy-wackiness from the Hitchhiker’s Guide section of my brain 😉
I know what makes a book good. And… I know the impact it has to read a book about healing. A book that makes me laugh. A book where the characters have been beaten and get up again. Books that I binge-read (they always end too quickly), and then put down with a sigh of relief, shoulders relaxing.
Because it’s not all easy, but the book reminds me that there’s still hope. There’s still laughter. There’s still ice-cream on the beach, and road-trips with friends, singing at the top of my lungs. There’s still a reason to get up and keep going, because there is good in life, even when everything seems black.
I’m here to bring that light to you.
To write books that acknowledge how hard life can be, but focus on redemption. That remind you there is laughter in the world, and all’s not lost.
Books that you can get lost in, laugh in, and make you fall head over heels for the characters until you root for them so much that, without realising it, you start rooting for yourself again.
I want you to pick up a book, smile, and say ‘this is gonna be good’…
…and it is.
The Teddy Handbook is that story for me.
My first story out in the world, nestled in-between thirteen other stories about bravery and adventure and imagining a better life.
The story of a teddy daring to love again when everything in him tells him not to. A story of bedrooms and beaches, big hoodies and brightly coloured umbrellas. A story of reaching out. Hurting.
Healing, little by little.
If you need a reason to get up again…
Read these stories.
Let yourself dare to believe that what’s on the other side of this is better than you ever expected.
Because to quote The Teddy Handbook; love?
It’s worth it.