Marlene Hauser

Marlene Hauser

Blogs

These blogs are a chance to share with you more personally how I feel about things going on in my life and/or in the world at large.  Sometimes they are directly related to my books, but most often they are not.

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Lazy Sunny Afternoons

Hi Everyone, Slow start this June in getting the blog to you due to Mine being released on May 28th, as well as son wrapping up second year at Uni and all the normal intro to fun summer stuff—like...

Fertile Infertility

Hi Everyone Big and bold: please pre-order, read, review and share MINE, my third novel, with your community! Thank you. Having just returned from the Oxford Literary Festival, the London Book Fair...

How To Save Humanity

This Monday morning, despite having had a relatively busy weekend at the Oxford Literary Festival, I found myself at the Bodleian Library doing research for the next novel. After arriving a bit late...

This? That?

Hi Everyone, Snowing in Oxford this morning and Classic FM is playing Prokofiev’s Sleigh Ride while I stare in disbelief out the kitchen windows. Yes, snow is falling heavily and the Bengal refuses to...

Mine, Novel Number Three

Hi Everyone, Coming soon: Mine. My third novel—yes, a story of love, loss and unexpected endings—is being released by The Book Guild on May 28, 2023. Please enjoy a small excerpt from Chapter One...

Wonderland Oxford

Hi Everyone New Year. New ideas, people, places, things? Nope. Not for me. Not entirely anyway because I am hugely grateful for the existing ones, especially the old ones like the town where I live...

A Collectible Christmas

Hi Everyone, Collections? Who has a collection? I do, but mine is not of Rembrandts or Fabergé eggs. It is of horses, mostly small-ish figurines that I have picked up here and there over the years...

Cast your Bread

Hi Everyone, Depending on where you are in the world the weather is most probably warming up or most undoubtedly cooling down! Here in Oxford, it is, thankfully, gently turning colder and more...

Green Man, Gold Faun, Pearl Earring

Hi Everyone, Inspiration. It’s everywhere. As they say, “just look!” Some readers often ask a writer where she finds her vision, and the more fact-like a work appears, the more a reader assumes the...