Readers my recall an edition of Supporting Friends Friday dedicated to Mariella Hunt, an Idaho-based author who also dabbles in cute water colors of birds.
Before she started painting birds, Mariella was a writer—a prolific one, at that. I discovered her first through her paintings, through Andrea the Ilustrator’s blog, but have come to appreciate and enjoy her writing as well.
Mariella is a talented non-fiction writer, but her real passion is fiction. She tells me that she is hoping to make a living as a freelance writer, and is currently publishing her novella The Sea Rose via Amazon’s Kindle Vella service.
Kindle Vella allows authors to release stories serially, in short little doses or chapters, much the way much of Charles Dickens’s work was published.
I’ve read the first chapter of The Sea Rose, and it’s good—really good. I am eagerly awaiting the second chapter (which should be available by the time you read this post!).
The Portly Politico 