{"id":13,"date":"2020-01-16T21:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:31:00","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amymarieayres.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Next Obsession: The Marilyn Deallan Series."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A fractured reality. A missing truth. 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Her work walks the line between the uncanny and the absurd, using satire to expose the cracks in our world and speculative storytelling to slip through them. She is the author of the Marilyn Deallan series and the Award-Winning Star Lost universe, crafting stories where humor and darkness coexist, and where the surreal becomes a mirror for the truths we avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=G-C7MKW9T520\"><\/script>\n<script>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}\n  gtag('js', new Date());\n\n  gtag('config', 'G-C7MKW9T520');\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fractured reality. A missing truth. A woman caught between worlds. Elsewhere is the next chapter in the Marilyn Deallan saga \u2014 and nothing is what it seems. 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