I’m Mary Berman, a Philadelphia-based writer.
UNTIL DEATH, my literary horror novel about the wedding industrial complex, is forthcoming from Little, Brown.
If you enjoy, e.g.:
stalking strangers’ wedding websites
dredging up decades-old fights with your mom
spending Saturday nights reading alone at the bar
…then you’ll probably like my book.
I’ve also published in myriad magazines — like the Hugo-nominated Fireside, the horror podcast PseudoPod, and that staple of the dentists’ offices of our youth, Cicada — and I’ve taught fiction workshops at the University of Mississippi, the MetroWest Writers’ Guild, and the Philly-based nonprofit Blue Stoop.
This is my free monthly newsletter, where I write about book updates, creative writing, and whatever I’m reading or watching at the moment. The newsletter is called “Mary, the Devourer” because I heard somewhere that during the Renaissance period, people who read a lot were called devourers. I cannot find even one piece of research to back this up.
I’m interested in why we love the stories we love — the conventional ones, the offbeat ones, and above all, the weird-as-hell ones. Subscribe if you’re interested, too.
