A lifelong professional writer, including a stint as a reporter for the LA Times Community News, Mary Castillo is the author of three novels (Swithcraft, In Between Men and Hot Tamara) and two novellas featured in the anthologies, Names I Call My Sister and Friday Night Chicas. She also pays the bills by writing features for Tu Ciudad, Rise Up and Latino Future magazines, as well as for Animation World Network. Celebrities like Ingrid Hoffman of Simply Delicioso and Chef Daisy Martinez of Everyday with Rachael Ray and authors such as Marta Acosta, Jenny Gardiner and Caridad Ferrer have appeared on Mary's popular blog, Chica Lit.
One day, Mary swears that she will write a great American epic (with strong romantic elements, of course).
Latina magazine called Mary "an author to look out for" in August 2004 and OC Metro magazine named Mary one of the hottest 25 people in the O.C. (the only time her hotness has been publicly affirmed) in October 2005. Cosmopolitan magazine choose her debut, Hot Tamara, as the Red Hot Read of April 2005.
The one thing that most people don’t know about Mary is that she grew up in a haunted house. She loves watching Ghost Hunters on the SciFi channel, cries every time she sees the movies, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Casablanca, and feels that Joan Collins is by far the preeminent TV villain (which is why Joan plays such an important role in the novel, In Between Men).
